CodeHype

Founders launching a new startup or SaaS product struggle to get discovered on Google, and increasingly need visibility inside AI search tools and LLMs like Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok. Without a way to surface in these channels, new products stay invisible to potential users searching through traditional or AI-driven search. The site frames this as a discovery and backlink problem that founders otherwise have no easy way to solve themselves.

CodeHype lets founders submit a product website URL and launch their startup for free, receiving a permanent product page and a quality backlink intended to help with Google and AI discovery. Products are organized into weekly launch cohorts (e.g. Week 42, 2026) where community members upvote entries, producing weekly leaderboards and

The site pitches timing around AI search: it says to make startups easier to find not just on Google but on Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok as these become new discovery surfaces for products.