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Where to submit your startup (2026): what’s free, what’s dofollow, checked one by one

447 startup, SaaS and AI directories. 347 are free to submit to, and 251 gave a dofollow link when we inspected a live listing. We opened each one’s own submit and pricing pages, so you know the price, the link and the review process before you spend an afternoon on forms.

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Directories
447
18 categories
Dofollow (verified)
251
of 387 with a checked link
Free to submit
347
free, or with a free plan
DR 50+
215
of 372 with a Domain Rating by Ahrefs

Method

How we check every directory

Every row below comes from a visit to that directory’s own site. Where we couldn’t verify something, the row says so.

Read the full method
  1. Step 1

    We open their own pages

    Homepage, submit page, pricing and guidelines, on the date shown on each row. Prices and rules come only from there, and each directory’s page lists the pages we opened.

  2. Step 2

    We read a live listing’s link

    We find a product that’s already listed and read the rel attribute on its outbound link. No rel means dofollow; nofollow, ugc or sponsored pass little or no ranking value. No listing to inspect means “Unverified”.

  3. Step 3

    We add DR and popularity

    DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs, pulled from Ahrefs’ free API: a 0–100 score of the site’s backlinks. Tranco, a research top-sites ranking, adds popularity: lower is more visited. Neither is a Google metric.

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All 447 directories

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  • EdToolHub

    edtoolhub.com

    EdToolHub is an editorially reviewed directory of edtech tools for students, teachers and researchers, covering AI tools, LMSs, research and study apps. Each approved listing gets a factual summary…

    ProductivityPaidDofollowChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • Entrepreneurs BD

    entrepreneurs.bd

    Entrepreneurs BD is a Bangladeshi platform for founders, startups and SMEs that combines a directory of founder and company profiles with guides and a knowledge hub. Founders apply with a bio…

    RegionalFreeNofollowChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • KI Tools Übersicht

    ki-tools-uebersicht.de

    A German-language directory of 300+ AI tools across 22 categories, filterable by function and pricing model. Makers submit through a free form on the homepage that also accepts an affiliate…

    AI toolsFreeNofollowChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • LegalTech Atlas

    legaltechatlas.com

    A worldwide directory of legal technology products and companies, browsable by category, investor and an interactive map, run alongside Legal.io's legal tech newsletter network. Law firms, in-house…

    SaaSFree + paidDofollowChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • SelfHostIndex

    selfhostindex.com

    SelfHostIndex catalogs open-source, self-hostable apps with health scores, setup difficulty and the proprietary tools each one replaces. Its data is open, and each new app automatically gets its own…

    Open sourceFreeDofollowChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • SEO Tools Directory

    seotools.directory

    SEO Tools Directory publishes independent, scored reviews of SEO software in six categories, with current pricing and a source for every claim. Submitted tools go into an editorial queue, and…

    MarketingFreeNofollowChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • Supertools

    supertools.design

    Supertools is a curated directory of design tools, templates, asset libraries and services for creatives, published as short write-ups. Makers submit through a form, and resources that fit are…

    DesignFreeDofollowChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • The Design Tools

    thedesigntools.site

    The Design Tools is a hand-curated directory of several hundred tools for product, graphic and industrial designers and architects, organized by discipline and with drawbacks noted for each. Makers…

    DesignFree + paidMixedChecked
    DR0Unranked

  • GitHub Marketplace

    github.com

    GitHub's marketplace of Apps and Actions that extend developer workflows. Devtools with a GitHub integration can list free or paid plans and be found by developers browsing by category.

    Developer toolsFreeDofollowChecked
    Tranco#29

  • SourceForge

    sourceforge.net

    A veteran open source hosting and download platform that also runs a business software directory. Projects can be created or imported from GitHub with free mirror-based downloads and stats; each…

    Open sourceFreeNofollowChecked
    Tranco#250

  • Visual Studio Code Marketplace

    marketplace.visualstudio.com

    Microsoft's marketplace for VS Code extensions, searchable from inside the editor. Devtool makers can ship an extension to reach developers where they work; each extension gets a public page…

    Developer toolsFreeMixedChecked
    Tranco#547

  • Figma Community

    figma.com

    Figma's public hub for plugins, widgets, files and templates. Building a Figma plugin that connects to your product lets designers discover it where they work, via a Community page with installs and…

    DesignFreeUGC (nofollow)Checked
    Tranco#866

  • ThemeForest (Envato Market)

    themeforest.net

    Envato's marketplace for website themes and templates, covering WordPress, Shopify, HTML, CMS and more. Authors apply, upload items for review, and approved items are sold to a large global customer…

    MarketplacesFreeNofollowChecked
    Tranco#1,037

  • Notion Marketplace

    notion.com

    Notion's template marketplace, where creators publish free or paid templates under a creator profile. Useful for productivity products or services that can package a workflow as a Notion template…

    ProductivityFreeNofollowChecked
    Tranco#1,561

  • Snap Store (Snapcraft)

    snapcraft.io

    Canonical's store for snap packages, used on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions to install desktop apps, CLI tools and services. Store pages show publisher, screenshots and contact links, and a…

    MarketplacesFreeDofollowChecked
    Tranco#2,489

  • CodeCanyon (Envato Market)

    codecanyon.net

    Envato's marketplace for code: WordPress plugins, PHP scripts, mobile app templates, JavaScript and more. Developers become Envato authors, and each item passes a quality review before it is sold to…

    MarketplacesFreeNofollowChecked
    Tranco#6,159

  • Homebrew

    brew.sh

    The dominant package manager for macOS (and Linux), with a public index of formulae and casks at formulae.brew.sh. Getting into homebrew/core or homebrew/cask makes a tool installable with a single…

    MarketplacesFreeNofollowChecked
    Tranco#6,488

  • Greasy Fork

    greasyfork.org

    A large community site for user scripts and user styles that run through managers like Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey and Stylus. Anyone with an account can post a script; it gets a page with…

    Browser extensionsFreeDofollowChecked
    Tranco#10,862

  • Flathub

    flathub.org

    The main app store for Flatpak packages, used by many Linux distributions to install desktop apps. Submissions are made as GitHub pull requests and checked by reviewers; accepted apps get a store…

    MarketplacesFreeDofollowChecked
    Tranco#10,977

  • F-Droid

    f-droid.org

    A catalogue of free and open-source Android apps that F-Droid builds from source itself. It is popular with privacy-minded Android users, and each app page lists license, anti-features, and links to…

    Mobile appsFreeDofollowChecked
    Tranco#13,620

  • Open VSX Registry

    open-vsx.org

    A vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions, run by the Eclipse Foundation and used by editors such as VSCodium, Gitpod and other VS Code forks. Publishing here makes an extension…

    MarketplacesFreeDofollowChecked
    Tranco#32,584

  • Package Control (Sublime Text)

    packagecontrol.io

    The package manager and package index for the Sublime Text editor. Adding a package to the default channel lets Sublime users install and auto-update it, and gives it a page with install stats and…

    MarketplacesFreeDofollowChecked
    Tranco#68,657

  • OpenUserJS

    openuserjs.org

    An open-source repository for user scripts, where authors publish scripts (optionally synced from GitHub) and users install them with a userscript manager. Script pages show source, installs…

    Browser extensionsFreeNofollowChecked
    Tranco#210,985

  • Airtable Marketplace

    airtable.com

    Airtable's marketplace of extensions and integrations that add features to Airtable bases. Developers submit extension code and listing details for review; approved extensions get a listing page…

    MarketplacesFreeUnverifiedChecked
    Unranked

  • Apple App Store

    apple.com

    Apple's store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch apps, which is the main way to distribute software to Apple device users. Every app and update is checked by App Review, and listings…

    Mobile appsPaidNofollowChecked
    Unranked

DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs: a 0–100 score of a site’s backlinks, higher is stronger. It isn’t a Google metric. Tranco rank is a research top-sites ranking: lower means more popular. How we check each directory

DR leaderboard: the top 100 directories by Domain Rating

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AI products

AI agents104GPTs and AI assistants100

Apps, extensions and plugins

Browser extensions7iOS apps6Android apps6Mac apps15Desktop software14Figma plugins9Templates and UI kits14SaaS integrations45

By kind of software

Open-source projects45Self-hosted software12Developer tools71APIs32No-code tools10B2B SaaS67Marketing tools34Design tools30Productivity tools11

By audience and stage

Indie hackers54Pre-launch startups31Newsletters that feature tools63Developer newsletters21B2B software review sites48Software alternatives sites24Startup databases43

By link, price and review

Free directories347Dofollow directories251Free dofollow directories199Directories with human review322

By country and region

Startups in Europe34Startups in Germany6Startups in Asia15

How we check each directory

What “checked” means

We opened the directory’s own pages (homepage, submit page, pricing, FAQ or guidelines) on the date shown and recorded what they said. Each directory page lists the exact pages we opened. Summaries and tips are written in our own words. If we couldn’t confirm something, the page says so instead of guessing.

How link types are verified

Where we could, we opened a live listing and inspected the outbound link to the listed product: no rel attribute means followed (dofollow), rel="nofollow", "ugc" or "sponsored" means it passes little or no ranking value. When we couldn’t find a listing to inspect, the link type is marked “Unverified”. Directories can change this at any time, so check your own listing once it’s live.

What DR is

DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs: Ahrefs’ 0–100, logarithmic score of how strong a site’s backlink profile is compared with every other site Ahrefs crawls. We fetch it from Ahrefs’ free API for each directory’s own domain and refresh it regularly; the directory page shows when. It measures links, not visitors or relevance, and it isn’t a Google ranking factor. Directories hosted on a shared platform (a GitHub list, a subreddit, a Medium or Notion page) show no DR, because the platform’s number says nothing about that one list.

What the Tranco rank is

Tranco is a top-sites ranking made for research. It combines several public top-sites lists over 30 days, which makes it harder to manipulate than any single list. Lower is more popular: #1,000 is far more visited than #500,000. It’s a rough popularity signal, not a backlink metric. “Unranked” means we have no rank for that site.

Pricing

Prices come only from the directory’s own site on the day we checked. We don’t take prices from other lists. Prices change, so confirm on the submit page before you pay.

Why some pages are thinner

Some directories publish very little about how they work. A directory page is only offered to search engines when it has a real summary (120+ characters) and at least 2 verified facts such as link type, pricing details, tips or a Tranco rank. The rest stay visible here but aren’t indexed.

We don’t sell placement

Directories don’t pay to be listed or ranked here. The default order is by Tranco rank, then name; you can also sort by highest DR.