If you built something, an app, a tool, a side project, a website, the Show feed is where you tell the Spotlitely community about it. This guide covers how to submit a launch properly, every place it shows up once it is live, and how timing affects how far it travels. New to Spotlitely first? Start with the Getting Started guide.
Most links on Spotlitely can be anything you found and have the right to share, an article, a tool, someone else's project. Show is the one exception. It is reserved for things you actually built: an app, a product, a side project, a launch. If you have used Product Hunt before, think of Show as our version of it: a dedicated space to launch what you made and get feedback from the community.
There is no separate form for it. When you submit a link, there is a checkbox labeled This is a Show post, with the helper text a project, product, or thing you made. Check it, and your submission is marked as a launch rather than a regular find.
Go to Submit and paste the URL
Use the actual link to your project, not a redirect or a shortened URL. The domain is what people will see on the card.
Write a real title and description
Title needs 5 to 200 characters, description needs 10 to 500 characters. Describe what it does and why someone would want it, plainly. Misleading titles and clickbait are against the guidelines, and that rule applies to your own launch too.
Pick a category and check the Show box
Choose whichever of the six categories fits best, then check This is a Show post. Both fields matter: the category decides which category page it competes on, the checkbox decides whether it appears in Show.
Checking the Show box does not move your link into a separate, isolated corner of the site. It adds exposure on top of everything every other submission already gets:
Hot and category rankings use a score that fades the moment your link is posted, not a flat window like a day or two. The fade is steep: by roughly a day after posting, the time based part of the score has already dropped to a small fraction of where it started. In practice, that means the first few hours after you submit matter far more than the rest of the first day combined.
Post when you can actually be around. Share it with people who would genuinely find it useful, and be ready to answer questions as reactions start coming in, rather than posting and walking away.
Clicks alone do not make a launch rank well. Useful, Interesting, and Love reactions do, and they come from people who actually looked at what you made and had an opinion about it worth registering.
Every link has a private message channel between the poster and readers. Use it. If someone asks a question or points out a rough edge, answering them directly tends to earn more goodwill, and more reactions, than ignoring it.
The same guidelines that apply to every other submission apply to Show posts: no duplicate submissions, no misleading titles or clickbait, no spam. Anyone can flag a post that crosses the line, reports are reviewed by a moderator, and posts that violate the guidelines get taken down. Repeat offenders are banned. The full rules live on the Guidelines page.
Yes. The Show checkbox and the category are separate fields. Pick whichever of the six categories fits your project, AI Tools, Dev Tools, Design, Indie, Business, or Writing, and check the Show box as well.
Yes. Checking the Show box only adds your link to the Show feed. It still appears on the homepage and on its category page, ranked by score the same as every other submission.
No. Submitting any link, including a Show post, is free. Spotlitely also sells optional paid placements, sidebar slots, in-feed campaigns, and a featured banner, for businesses that want guaranteed visibility, but those are separate from organic submissions.
Treat each launch as a single submission. The guidelines do not allow duplicate submissions, so reposting the same link to chase a second wave of attention is likely to get it removed.
Your post stays visible in New and Show regardless. Reactions can still come in later, but they carry the most weight for ranking in the first few hours after you post, since the score fades quickly after that.
Paste the URL, write a real title and description, check the Show box, and it is live immediately across the Show feed, the homepage, and your category page.
Submit a link