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Submit to Sidebar
A daily curated feed and newsletter of the five best design links, run by UX Collective. Community members can suggest links; being picked puts an article or product in front of a large designer audience for a day.
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Sidebar at a glance
- Pricing
- Free + paid options
- Link suggestions are free (login required); sponsored links cost $950 per sponsorship with discounts for bootstrapped companies
- Link type
- Unverified
- Homepage https://sidebar.io/ links every post through internal /out?url=... (no rel); final anchor not visible — rendered via context.dev (checked 2026-09-23)
- Review
- Manual review
- Link back required
- No
- Account required
- Yes
- Domain Rating
- DR70
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs, checked Sep 24, 2026. A score of the whole site’s backlinks, not a Google metric.
- Tranco rank
- #295,247
- Research top-sites ranking. Lower is more popular.
- Who browses it
- Product, UI and UX designers who read a daily design digest
- Last checked
How to submit to Sidebar
Open the Sidebar submission page
This is the page makers use to add a product.
Create an account
Sidebar asks you to sign up before you can submit.
Have your assets ready
Name, tagline, description, logo and screenshots. The checklist below covers what to prepare so you can fill the form in one go.
Fill in the form carefully
Pick the most specific category the form offers and write the description for the people who browse Sidebar (Product, UI and UX designers who read a daily design digest), not for search engines.
Wait for review
A person reviews submissions, so it can take a while. Once it’s live, check the link on your listing points to the right page.
Tips for Sidebar
- Submit a genuinely useful design article or resource rather than a plain product homepage
- Outbound links route through a sidebar.io/out redirect
- If sponsoring, space multiple sponsored links for the same product at least a month apart
From Sidebar’s own guidelines and pages, in our words.
What to prepare
The basics every directory asks for, plus what matters most for design directories.
- Product name and a one-line tagline (about 60 characters)
- A short description (1–2 sentences) and a longer one (a short paragraph)
- Square logo, at least 256×256 px, PNG or SVG
- 2–3 screenshots at a consistent size
- The exact page you want the link to point to
- Pricing model (free, freemium or paid) and a contact email
- High-resolution screenshots or preview images (no blurry crops)
- A short loop or video if your product has motion
- Links to a Figma community file, Dribbble or Behance page if relevant
- Licence terms if you sell assets or templates
Is Sidebar worth it?
We couldn’t verify the link
We didn’t find a live listing we could inspect, so we don’t know whether Sidebar links are followed. Judge it on audience and effort, and check your own listing’s link once it’s live.
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs: 70 (very strong). That's the strength of links to the whole site, not a promise about what your listing passes on.
- Tranco rank #295,247: a mid-sized site, inside the top 500,000.
- A person reviews submissions, so expect a wait and a real quality bar.
- There’s a free option. Start free and only pay for upgrades if the traffic justifies it.
This verdict is worked out from the facts above with fixed rules (link type, review, price, Domain Rating by Ahrefs, Tranco rank), not paid for. The directory has no say in it.
Questions about Sidebar
Is Sidebar free?
There’s a free option, with paid upgrades. Pricing details: Link suggestions are free (login required); sponsored links cost $950 per sponsorship with discounts for bootstrapped companies. We checked on Sep 23, 2026.
Does Sidebar give a dofollow link?
We couldn’t verify this. We didn’t find a live listing to inspect when we checked on Sep 23, 2026, so treat the link type as unknown until you see your own listing.
How do I submit to Sidebar?
Submit at https://sidebar.io/submit. You need an account first. A person reviews each submission before it goes live. Tip: Submit a genuinely useful design article or resource rather than a plain product homepage.
Alternatives to Sidebar
All design directoriesFree · Tranco #866
Paid · DR 89 · Tranco #11,526
Free · DR 78 · Tranco #64,626
Free · DR 79 · Tranco #101,850
Paid · DR 80 · Tranco #108,075
Paid · DR 75 · Tranco #313,518
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