LaunchDistro MCP
LaunchDistro is a hosted MCP server that plans a product's startup-directory submissions and checks that the links went live. Your own AI app (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, ...) fills each directory's form in your own browser; LaunchDistro supplies the verified catalog, the order to submit in, the playbook for each form and the live-link check.
This repository holds documentation and the registry manifest only. The server runs at https://launchdistro.com/api/mcp.
- Site: https://launchdistro.com
- Full docs: https://launchdistro.com/docs
- Tools reference: https://launchdistro.com/docs/tools
What it does
- Match: which directories take your product (type, region, badge rules, requirements), with the reason for each one that does not.
- Plan: the order to submit in and a daily pace for your domain's rating, each directory with a reason for its place.
- Playbook: before each directory, what its form asks, which profile field goes where, the free plan's conditions and where to stop for you.
- Record: what happened at each directory, on your dashboard.
- Verify: opens the public listing, checks that it links to your product and reads the link's
rel(dofollow or nofollow). A listing counts as live only after this check.
Connect
Create a token for your AI app on https://launchdistro.com/dashboard/setup (one token per app, revocable on its own). Then:
Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http launchdistro https://launchdistro.com/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <your-token>"
Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"launchdistro": {
"url": "https://launchdistro.com/api/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <your-token>" }
}
}
}
Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)
[mcp_servers.launchdistro]
url = "https://launchdistro.com/api/mcp"
http_headers = { Authorization = "Bearer <your-token>" }
VS Code
code --add-mcp '{"name":"launchdistro","type":"http","url":"https://launchdistro.com/api/mcp","headers":{"Authorization":"Bearer <your-token>"}}'
Claude Desktop: Customize, Connectors, +, Add custom connector. Name it LaunchDistro and paste https://launchdistro.com/api/mcp?token=<your-token>.
Any other app: add a remote (Streamable HTTP) server with the URL above and the header Authorization: Bearer <your-token>.
Step-by-step setup and troubleshooting: https://launchdistro.com/docs/setup
Tools
| Group | Tool | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | match_directories | Every catalogued directory for the product: ready, locked or not a fit, with the reason |
| Plan | plan_submissions | Orders the ready directories and saves the plan; submits nothing |
| Product profile | list_products | The products on your account |
| Product profile | get_product_profile | The product's facts and the fields directories ask that are still empty |
| Product profile | save_product_profile | Saves facts you confirmed, merged onto the stored profile |
| Submit | submission_playbook | How to submit to one directory; call it before every submission |
| Submit | record_submission | Records what happened at a directory, with the confirmation page as proof |
| Check and report | verify_link | Opens a public listing and checks the link and its rel |
| Check and report | verify_badge | Checks that your site shows the badge or link back a directory asks for |
| Check and report | list_submissions | What you have sent and what is waiting on you |
| Check and report | report_directory_fact | Tells LaunchDistro what a directory's page says that its playbook did not |
| Check and report | suggest_directory | Suggests a directory LaunchDistro does not list |
| Account | license_status | Plan, free submissions left and connected apps |
It also registers one prompt, submit, which runs the whole flow for one directory. Parameters and return values: https://launchdistro.com/docs/tools
Try it
Once connected, ask your AI app:
- "Add my product from this repo, and ask me what you can't find."
- "Where does my product qualify?"
- "Plan my next 10 directories, dofollow first."
- "Submit my product to the next directory on the plan."
- "What have I sent, and what is waiting on me?"
Privacy and what runs where
- Forms are filled by your AI app in your own browser, with your own sessions. Nothing is submitted from LaunchDistro's servers.
- Your agent stops and asks you at every sign-in, CAPTCHA, code, payment, terms checkbox or ambiguous field.
- LaunchDistro's server opens public pages itself only for
verify_linkandverify_badge. - Passwords and payment details never go to LaunchDistro.
- What is stored and for how long: https://launchdistro.com/privacy
Plans
A free plan with 10 submissions, a one-off Launch for one product, and Pro for every product and weekly link monitoring. Current prices and limits: https://launchdistro.com/pricing
Support
Questions and problems: https://launchdistro.com