OpenHunts Review & Guide
A weekly launch board for indie products, launching on Mondays.
Facts checked 20 Oct 2026. See sources
Quick Facts
- Pricing
- Free launch $0 (queue, or add the badge to skip it); Premium launch $9.90 (shown reduced from $19); Highlight $20 a week (shown reduced from $59, demand-based). Sidebar sponsorships are also sold.
- Review Turnaround
- Not published as a review time. Launches go live on Mondays at 8:00 AM UTC; Premium launches the next Monday.
- Free Option
- Yes
- Free launches get 20 slots a week. On 20 Oct 2026 the pricing page showed a current queue time of about 60 weeks, and said adding the OpenHunts badge skips the wait.
- Link Type
- Dofollow (conditional)
- OpenHunts says the free plan gets a dofollow backlink if the launch finishes in the top 3, and Premium and Highlight get a guaranteed dofollow link. On 4 listings we checked on 20 Oct 2026, the Visit website link was plain on 2 and marked nofollow on 2.
Published audience: 111,564 visits in 6 months (its own PostHog figures). This is OpenHunts's own figure (source, checked 20 Oct 2026).
Overview
OpenHunts runs weekly launches that go live at 8:00 AM UTC on Mondays, with 20 free slots a week. Free launches queue, with the option to add its badge to skip the wait. Premium launches pick a week and are guaranteed a dofollow link. It's the closest match to Hauntboard's format.
Strengths
- A weekly format, with a full week on the homepage.
- Premium is cheap and lets you choose the launch week.
- A dofollow link is guaranteed on the paid plans.
Limits
- A free launch can mean a very long wait: about 60 weeks on the day we checked, unless you add its badge.
- On the free plan, the dofollow link depends on finishing in the top 3.
- The audience is small: it reports about 9,300 users.
How to Submit & Launch on OpenHunts
- If you take the free plan, add the badge to skip the queue.
- Premium lets you choose your launch week.
OpenHunts vs Hauntboard
OpenHunts is the closest match to Hauntboard: weekly Monday launches, 20 free slots, a badge to skip the free queue and a cheap paid launch with a chosen week. Hauntboard reviews free launches in about 72 hours instead of queueing them, and shows each launch's page views and visits in public.
Free Hauntboard listings show the Hauntboard badge on your site; while the badge isn't there, the link is nofollow.
Listings show upvotes and the site publishes site-wide traffic figures; we found no per-listing visit counts.
Dofollow if top 3 on the free plan; guaranteed on paid plans; mixed on the listings we checked.
Weekly, with 20 free slots.
Sources
Facts on this page were checked against these pages on 20 Oct 2026. Platforms change their terms; check the live page before you pay.