About Flamas

Flamas is a launch board that measures whether your launch worked. You list a product, it gets a day on a board ranked by upvotes, and then the platform keeps going: it checks whether your site still answers months later, it shows who asked to be contacted, and it runs the other direction too, where people post problems they would pay to have solved.

The problem

Every launch board has the same defect. The audience is other founders waiting for their own turn, so upvotes measure reach rather than quality, and the leaderboard ranks whoever has the biggest list. The founder leaves with a trophy and no customers. The visitor leaves with a pile of half-abandoned tools, because nothing on a directory ever gets marked as gone.

What we do about it

• Every listing carries a pulse.We request each product's site on a schedule and publish the result: alive, unstable, or dead with the date it stopped answering. A dead product loses its dofollow link and moves to the graveyard, which stays public. No other launch board tells you whether its listings still work.
• Demand is posted, not guessed. Anyone can post a problem they would pay to have solved. Other people add a +1 and say what they would pay, so a maker can read what the market is asking for instead of inferring it.
• The crowd decides what answers a want. Makers enter a product and the people reading vote on which one fits. The person who posted the problem gets one vote like everybody else. Nothing is awarded by default, and a want nobody answered is published as exactly that, which is the most useful thing on the board if you are deciding what to build.
• Interest, not just upvotes. A visitor can say they would actually try a product and, if they choose, share their email. A maker gets people who answered, not only a number.
• Paying never buys rank. Money buys timing, a dofollow link and placement. It has never bought an upvote or a position, and the board would be worthless if it did.

Who it is for

Solo founders and small teams who want to know whether a launch did anything, not just that it happened. It is also for people who are not building: posting a problem you would pay to solve, or voting on which product answers somebody else's, needs no product of your own.