A standard for launch readiness, and a product wrapped around it.

Why I built this

I'm Ricky, and LaunchGraded exists because I stumbled into the exact problem it now solves. I'd spent weeks on a project, felt ready, and pushed it live — only to find out afterwards, from other people, about a string of things I'd completely missed: a page that was quietly set to noindex, a pricing link that didn't work on a phone, a checkout flow with no reason for a stranger to trust it. None of it was hard to fix. All of it was invisible to me, because I was too close to my own work to see it.

That's the actual problem: launch day is the one day the most people will ever look at your site at once, and it's also the day you're least able to judge it objectively. You've read every word a hundred times. You know where everything is. A stranger doesn't, and a stranger is exactly who you're about to send traffic to.

So I built the checklist I wished I'd had, except turned into something rule-based and repeatable instead of a list I'd forget half of under deadline pressure. LaunchGraded runs a published standard against your public page, 9 dimensions, 51 checks, fixed weights, and tells you exactly where you stand before you spend your one shot, the same way a second pair of eyes would if you had one on call.

Who builds it

LaunchGraded is built and run by one person — me. That's stated plainly because it matters for what you can expect: fast, direct replies from the person who wrote the checks; no sales team; and a product whose scope is exactly what's described on the pricing page. Every check, every finding template and every email is written by a human, because I built this for the person I was a few launches ago.

The honesty stance

• The score isn't an AI opinion. Rules where accuracy matters, AI only where it's labelled — an optional overview paragraph and the LaunchDay's draft.
• No guaranteed-traffic nonsense. We never claim traffic, signups, rankings or revenue. Launch readiness isn't product-market fit, and a good score isn't a promise.
• The standard is public. Weights, severity rules and verdict bands are on the methodology page. Detection heuristics aren't, so the score can't be gamed.
• We eat our own cooking. This site is scored against the same standard after major changes, and the number is shown in the footer whether or not it's flattering.
• If a check is wrong, we fix the check. Every finding has a “think this is wrong?” link. A detection miss on a real site is a bug in our heuristics, not your problem.