generated: '2026-08-13'
method: probed
source: https://www.launchrock.com/graphql
name: Launchrock rate limits
description: >-
  Launchrock publishes no rate limits, because it publishes no public API. limit_count
  is an honest zero. The one rate-limit signal observed anywhere on a Launchrock host
  comes from the shared Startups.com application backend at
  https://www.launchrock.com/graphql — an internal, undocumented Apollo Server that
  emits x-rl-* counters on rejected requests. That endpoint is not a developer surface
  (introspection is disabled, GET returns 401, there is no documentation of any kind),
  so its counters are recorded below as an observation only and are deliberately NOT
  presented as a published rate-limit policy.
limit_count: 0
documented: false
docs: null
limits: []
observed_headers:
- header: x-rl-tot
  observed_value: '10000'
  meaning: >-
    Total requests allowed in the window. Inferred from the header name only; the
    provider documents nothing.
- header: x-rl-rem
  observed_value: '9980'
  meaning: Requests remaining in the window (inferred from the name).
- header: x-rl-res
  observed_value: '1786629699'
  meaning: >-
    Unix epoch seconds at which the window resets (inferred; the value decodes to a
    time shortly after the probe).
standard_headers:
  ratelimit_draft: false
  x_ratelimit: false
  retry_after: not observed
exhaustion_status: not observed
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-13'
  url: https://www.launchrock.com/graphql
  http_status: 401
  content_type: application/json; charset=utf-8
  note: >-
    x-rl-tot / x-rl-rem / x-rl-res were returned on an unauthenticated GET (401 "Not
    Allowed") and on an unauthenticated POST carrying an introspection query (400).
    They were NOT present on the successful POST. No published documentation names
    these headers anywhere on launchrock.com or help.startups.com.