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

1. Match: which directories take your product (type, region, badge rules, requirements), with the reason for each one that does not.
2. Plan: the order to submit in and a daily pace for your domain's rating, each directory with a reason for its place.
3. Playbook: before each directory, what its form asks, which profile field goes where, the free plan's conditions and where to stop for you.
4. Record: what happened at each directory, on your dashboard.
5. 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_link and verify_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