LaunchList costs $29/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $1,044 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$29/month, forever ($348/yr) is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Queuecraft: the pay-once alternative
Queuecraft does the same core job for $29, once. Signup page + embed widget where referring friends moves you up the line — on your server.
| Queuecraft | LaunchList | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 once | $29/month, forever ($348/yr) |
| Waitlists | Unlimited | Plan-limited |
| Subscribers | Unlimited — it's your SQLite file | Tiered |
| Referral queue-jumping | Yes | Yes |
| Email verification | Yes, via your SMTP | Yes, via their sender |
| Custom domain | Yes — it's your server | Paid tier |
| Your data | On your disk, CSV anytime | In their cloud |
| Source code | MIT, on GitHub | Closed |
Queuecraft costs exactly one month of LaunchList Pro — and a typical waitlist runs 3–12 months before launch. It pays for itself in month one.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need LaunchList's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Queuecraft is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Queuecraft — $29, once
Signup page + embed widget where referring friends moves you up the line — on your server.