How to get your new SaaS indexed by Google
You shipped, you searched for your own name, and nothing came up. Here is what Google needs before it lists a new site, and what quietly stops it.
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How to get an app found once it is built: where to submit it, and what to write so a listing does something for you.
How to get your new SaaS indexed by Google
You shipped, you searched for your own name, and nothing came up. Here is what Google needs before it lists a new site, and what quietly stops it.
Open Graph tags for your app: the link preview checklist
Every time someone shares your link, the preview is your ad. Here are the tags that control it, the image size that works everywhere, and how to force a stale one to update.
9 free product launch sites for SaaS, and what free costs you
Free rarely means free. On most launch sites it means waiting months, or linking back. Here is what each one actually asks for.
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You shipped, you searched for your own name, and nothing came up. Here is what Google needs before it lists a new site, and what quietly stops it.
Read moreEvery time someone shares your link, the preview is your ad. Here are the tags that control it, the image size that works everywhere, and how to force a stale one to update.
Read moreFree rarely means free. On most launch sites it means waiting months, or linking back. Here is what each one actually asks for.
Read moreThe whole catalogue rather than the ten we like. 88 are free, 22 are rated DR 80 or above, and most of the value is in the first afternoon.
Read more88 of the 192 directories we track are free. These are the twenty worth an afternoon, and what each one actually gives back.
Read moreSometimes. It depends entirely on whether you are buying attention or buying a link, and only one of those is a real product.
Read moreEvery directory list sorts by it, including ours. It is still the most misread number in this whole business.
Read moreA growing number of directories speak MCP, which means your coding agent can search them, audit your listing and open a draft without a browser. Here is how to connect one, what to ask, and where the agent must stop.
Read moreThe twenty lines of JSON-LD that tell Google and every AI answer engine exactly what your app is, what it runs on and what it costs. Here is what goes in, what to leave out, and a template.
Read moreMost advice on app promotion is a list of channels with no verdict. This is the short version, with what each one gives you, what it costs in hours, and which to do first.
Read moreA plain text file at the root of your site that tells an AI model what your product is. Here is what goes in it, what to leave out, and a copy-and-paste template.
Read moreA growing share of the people asking for the best tool for a job never reach a search results page at all. Here is what those answers are built from.
Read moreThere are more than four hundred places to list a product and maybe ten that repay the hour. Here they are, in the order we would submit to them.
Read moreProduct Hunt is one day and one audience. These are the places worth the other launches, and what each of them is genuinely good at.
Read moreMost Product Hunt launches are lost in the week before they happen. Here is what to prepare, and what to do on the day itself.
Read moreA Show HN that lands sends more qualified traffic than any other launch venue, and most of them get four points and vanish. The difference is mostly decided before you press submit.
Read moreEvery founder is told to build links and nobody says which ones count. Here is how to tell, and where to get the ones that do.
Read moreLaunching is not one day on one site. Here is the schedule that gets the most out of a product nobody has heard of yet.
Read moreThe first hundred do not arrive from advertising. They arrive from places you can name, one at a time, and here is the order that works.
Read moreDirectory submission is boring, mechanical and genuinely worth doing. Here is how to get through the useful ones without losing a weekend.
Read moreThere are hundreds of AI tool directories and most of them are the same grid of tiles. These are the ones that send anything back.
Read moreEverybody quotes the same figures for these sites and almost nobody checks them. We did, against primary sources, and five of the most-cited numbers do not survive.
Read morePrint this, fill it in once, and every submission after the first one takes four minutes instead of forty.
Read moreEvery directory asks for the same three pieces of writing. Get them right once and every listing after the first one takes four minutes.
Read moreThe honest answer is that one kind never stopped working and the other kind has been worthless for over a decade. Most advice does not distinguish them.
Read moreEvery directory list on the internet advertises dofollow links and most founders have never checked one. It takes ten seconds.
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