LET US DISUCSS LAUNCHPADS & ICOs

I thought I'd share one of our articles here, looking forward to the discussion in this community!

When I first started, long before r/noshitcoins, LaunchPads were the holy grail of getting into credible projects early, what has happened? Are they still useful? How? And, finally, which ones? Please share your own thoughts on these questions, and I hope you appreciate r/noshitcoins take and strategy for maintaining valuable use of LaunchPads, as a research tool.

1. Finding Projects - Here is a standard list of LaunchPads ranked by MC. https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/launchpad?__cf_chl_managed_tk__=DJufzNASbnu436hnAXXaNhC5if2lQV0r9wtHU3T5GKs-1639424047-0-gaNycGzNCSU. I've found that checking for upcoming projects on these is a useful means to discovering new projects. I've found that the sweet spot though is a low MC launchPad with a seemingly awesome project are the best to get into pre/post launch, but they're rare finds. More nieche platforms which I like are https://www.gate.io/startup, https://coinlist.co/, https://app.anypad.io/#/, https://launchpad.enjinstarter.com/ and https://lightningprotocol.finance/, which have increasingly become one of my favourites to check out for discovering gems. As for small caps, check out https://www.solchicks.io/partners (the launchpads section) for a pretty healthy entry into this rabbit hole, but I digress, there are literally thousands. And so, what about you guys, which LaunchPads do you like to follow? And what is your favorite? Please share!
2. Large Cap LaunchPads & Entry Strategy - They generally have the most promising projects of course, such as Polkastarter or Daomaker etc.. although the repeated pattern of massive selloffs following launch can make it tricky knowing when to get into the project. Generally we keep eye on them post-launch throughout the following days/weeks, buying smaller amount here and there around the times we feel they might have bottomed out in order to establish a good average entry price, with a healthy touch of fomo of course, until one day all the selling pressure ceases, or some features launch, then Boom! Post-launch-dump gems usually catch flight unexpectly, that's why we buy small amounts over a short/medium period of time. Following socials/community growth/sentiment is key to analyse & judge the momentum, as well as MC/TVL if your lucky to find it on https://defillama.com/, as well as user growth, quantifying network effects by tracking unique holder addresses on https://explorer.bitquery.io/ for example, amongst other statistics and sentiment analysis. Understanding token release schedules/distribution is absolutely neccessary to establish an entry point, of course. How about you, how do you enter these positions? Anyone else share our general strategy, or have another startegy/trick to share with the community?
3. Searching Upcoming ICOs - If you're not using https://icodrops.com/ to keep en eye out for new launches, then, you're welcome. This tool is invaluable for finding and keeping a track of upcoming ICOs. They are almost always on large cap LaunchPads requiring whitelists etc.. so keep this in mind. As well, searching ICO, IDO etc.. on twitter usually pulls some interesting find, as well as similar searches on Medium. Often telegram groups are dedicated to finding presales, such as https://t.me/presalehuntersofficial for example, and more, though we tend to use chat oriented resources less often. Of course, other than new tokens we post on r/noshitcoins, does anyone know a subbreddit which is dedicated to listing launches? ..Which isn't overfowing with shitcoins such as cryptomoonshits (which ocassionaly does have credible projects). That would be interesting! How about you, which resources do you use to find upcoming ICO's?
4. Free LaunchPads - I won't go too much into these as they are infested with shitcoins, as I'm sure you are aware, such as https://dxsale.app/, https://www.pinksale.finance/#/launchpads?chain=BSC (which currently has a token launching literally called 'Shitcoin' LOL, no surprise at all). I liked a small project called https://www.polydex.fi/ido too for a short while, anyone know any others similar to that? Please share!
5. Over to the Noshitcoin community - what do you think? I will update this section if we get some good comments below which I've not mentioned! :D

That about sums this post, thought I'd get some thoughts/opinions from the community on LaunchPads & your strategies for researching & FOMOing in post-launch, as this topic has come up increasingly within my close circle. Luckily I have several friends who hold some large LaunchPad alloactions and are kind enough to alloacate me some fo theirs, if I'm interested, but other than that I don't even try to get into LaunchPads anymore, the allocations are too small, if not a lottery, and their tokens are too volatile. Do you still try to get in to LaunchPads, or use them for some purpose?

Any thoughts guys? Please share with us, it would be great to hear what you think about ours, and learn your methods & strategies when it comes to LaunchPads & ICOs, comment below and check out some other articles! This article was originally posted on r/noshitcoins.

Good Luck!