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Launches & trending

Weekly launch rankings (winners), and the most upvoted recent launches.

Weekly launches

GEThttps://www.founder.best/api/v1/launches

Founder.best launches run on ISO weeks (Monday-Sunday, UTC). This endpoint returns the products that launched in a week, ranked by that week’s score: upvotes received during the week plus the starter bonus included in paid Launch Pro / Pro+ plans. After the week ends, ranks 1-3 are the weekly winners. Without parameters you get the current week, whose ranking is still live.

yearinteger
ISO week-year. Provide with week.
weekinteger
ISO week number, 1-53.
limitintegerdefault 50
1-100.
bash
curl "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/launches?year=2026&week=38&limit=10"
200 OK (trimmed)
{
  "api_version": "1",
  "week": { "year": 2026, "week": 38, "starts_on": "2026-09-14", "ends_on": "2026-09-20", "url": "https://www.founder.best/launches/2026/38", "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/launches?year=2026&week=38" },
  "is_current_week": false,
  "previous_week": { "year": 2026, "week": 37, "…": "…" },
  "next_week": { "year": 2026, "week": 39, "…": "…" },
  "count": 10,
  "products": [
    { "rank": 1, "week_score": 41, "type": "product", "name": "Zinn Hub", "slug": "zinn-hub-freelance-marketplace", "…": "…" }
  ]
}

next_week is null when you are looking at the current week. Walk the archive with previous_week.api_url rather than computing ISO weeks.

Trending

GEThttps://www.founder.best/api/v1/trending

Live products whose launch date falls inside period, ordered by all-time upvotes. Products scheduled for a future week are excluded.

periodstringdefault 30d
7d, 30d, 90d or all.
categorystring
Category slug or name.
limitintegerdefault 20
1-100.
bash
curl "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/trending?period=30d&category=ai-ml&limit=5"
200 OK (trimmed)
{
  "api_version": "1",
  "period": "30d",
  "since": "2026-08-23",
  "category": "ai-ml",
  "count": 5,
  "products": [ { "rank": 1, "type": "product", "name": "Kling 3.0 AI Video Generator", "…": "…" } ]
}
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