Add launch-badge track to landing page + launch on indie/SaaS platforms

[jurij]

Goal

Add a launch-badge track to the Munkel landing page (apps/landing) and actually launch Munkel on the relevant indie/SaaS launch platforms so we earn those badges.

Two halves to this:

1. Launch Munkel on a set of launch/discovery platforms (Product Hunt + alternatives).
2. Embed the resulting "Featured on / Launched on / Trending on" badges as a track on the landing page, ideally as a marquee/strip near the bottom (above the footer).

Inspiration: getwring.app runs a badge track just before its footer with badges from a wide spread of platforms (FoundrList, BuildHop, Product Hunt, Twelve Tools, Findly.tools, Startup Fame, Fazier, Orynth, LaunchIgniter, SubmitMySaas, Toshi List, OpenHunts Club, LaunchPanda, Huzzler).

Why

• Social proof / credibility on the landing page.
• Backlinks + referral traffic from each directory (SEO value, several of these are dofollow).
• Most of these platforms hand you an embeddable badge once you're listed — cheap to collect, compounding value.

Platforms to launch on / collect badges from

These offer listings and (most of them) an embeddable badge. Tiered roughly by reach/effort.

Tier 1 — flagship, schedule deliberately

• Product Hunt — the big one; pick a launch date, line up hunter/upvotes
• Peerlist Launchpad — strong with the builder/dev audience, longer visibility window
• Fazier — clean, AI-startup friendly, less crowded; gives a badge
• Uneed — curated directory, badge available

Tier 2 — solid directories with badges

• MicroLaunch
• Startup Fame
• Twelve Tools
• Findly.tools
• LaunchIgniter
• Tiny Launch / Smol Launch
• OpenHunts (Club)
• Dang.ai

Tier 3 — long tail (same ones getwring uses + extras)

• FoundrList
• BuildHop
• Orynth
• SubmitMySaaS
• Toshi List
• LaunchPanda
• Huzzler
• BetaList
• Launching Next

Research note: not every directory issues a badge, and badge link policy (dofollow vs nofollow) varies. Confirm per platform before adding to the track. A good aggregated source to mine: awesome-saas-directories.

Landing page work (apps/landing)

Stack: TanStack Start + React + Tailwind on Cloudflare.

• Build a LaunchBadgeTrack component (horizontal strip / marquee of badges), placed above the footer.
• Decide on rendering: most badge embeds are <a><img></a> snippets — self-host the badge images (avoid third-party layout shift / tracking / availability risk) rather than hot-linking.
• Make it responsive (wrap or auto-scroll on mobile).
• Keep it accessible: real alt text per badge, real anchor links.
• Lazy-load images so it doesn't hurt LCP.

Acceptance

• Munkel is live on at least the Tier 1 platforms.
• Badge track component shipped on the landing page with the badges we've actually earned.
• Badge images self-hosted, accessible, responsive, lazy-loaded.

Open questions

• Self-host badge SVGs/PNGs, or use the platforms' embed snippets as-is?
• One coordinated launch day vs. rolling launches across weeks?
• Track every platform we list on, or only the higher-signal ones?