Reaching the top of the loop is, on most platforms, a private kind of accomplishment. You know about it. Your team knows about it. The handful of people refreshing the homepage on Friday afternoon know about it. Beyond that, the achievement exists mostly as a screenshot in a pinned tweet. On LaunchLoop, it can travel.
How it works
Every founder who reaches the top of the loop earns a stamped Featured Founder badge, and that badge can be embedded directly on their own marketing site. Each badge is generated as an SVG at the edge from a stable URL of the form /api/public/badge/your-slug. There is no iframe, no JavaScript snippet to maintain, and no tracking. The badge is, quite literally, an image tag.
Auto-updating, on purpose
Because the badge is rendered on demand, it always reflects your current standing in the loop. If you climb back to the top a second week, the same image quietly updates. If you fall off, it falls off with you. The credential cannot become quietly out of date on a forgotten landing page, which is exactly the failure mode we wanted to avoid.
One stamped aesthetic
The badge is hand-tuned by our design desk and renders crisply at any size because it is a vector file end to end. The kind of small thing that, in our experience, founders notice and quietly appreciate.
On the etiquette of badges
Embeddable badges have a long, mixed history on the web. We have tried to design ours to fail gracefully: it degrades to a static fallback if our edge is unreachable, it is small enough not to slow a page down, and it will never inject anything other than the image you asked for. If you would prefer not to embed at all, the badge is also available as a downloadable file from your account page. Use it however feels right.