Where to submit your app
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.
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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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192 SaaS and app listing sites to submit to in 2026
The whole catalogue rather than the ten we like. 89 are free, 22 are rated DR 80 or above, and most of the value is in the first afternoon.
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20 best free directories to submit your app in 2026
89 of the 192 directories we track are free. These are the twenty worth an afternoon, and what each one actually gives back.
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Are paid directory listings worth it?
Sometimes. It depends entirely on whether you are buying attention or buying a link, and only one of those is a real product.
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What is Domain Rating, and does a DR 90 link help you?
Every directory list sorts by it, including ours. It is still the most misread number in this whole business.
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Submit your app from Claude Code: the MCP way to launch
A 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.
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SoftwareApplication schema: the JSON-LD your app page needs
The 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.
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How to promote your app: 14 ways that still work in 2026
Most 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.
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llms.txt for your app: what it is and how to write one
A 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.
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How to get your app cited by AI search
A 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.
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10 best directories to submit your app in 2026
There 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.
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9 Product Hunt alternatives that still work
Product Hunt is one day and one audience. These are the places worth the other launches, and what each of them is genuinely good at.
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How to launch on Product Hunt
Most Product Hunt launches are lost in the week before they happen. Here is what to prepare, and what to do on the day itself.
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How to launch on Hacker News: the Show HN guide
A 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.
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Free backlinks for startups, without a penalty
Every 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.
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Where to launch your app: a four week plan
Launching is not one day on one site. Here is the schedule that gets the most out of a product nobody has heard of yet.
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How to get your first 100 users
The 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.
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How to submit your SaaS to directories
Directory submission is boring, mechanical and genuinely worth doing. Here is how to get through the useful ones without losing a weekend.
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Where to submit your AI tool in 2026
There are hundreds of AI tool directories and most of them are the same grid of tiles. These are the ones that send anything back.
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How much money app directories actually make
Everybody 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.
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The directory submission checklist
Print this, fill it in once, and every submission after the first one takes four minutes instead of forty.
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How to write an app description
Every directory asks for the same three pieces of writing. Get them right once and every listing after the first one takes four minutes.
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Do directory submissions still work in 2026?
The 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.
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Dofollow vs nofollow links, explained
Every directory list on the internet advertises dofollow links and most founders have never checked one. It takes ten seconds.
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