Where to submit your app, and what it gets you
How to get an app found once it is built: where to submit it, which links are worth having, and what to write so a listing does something for you.
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.
·4 min read
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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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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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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