Directory database · last checked Nov 7, 2026
Best startup directories (2026): 490 places to submit your startup, checked one by one
A startup directory is a site that lists new products so people can find them. This list has 490 startup, SaaS and AI directories where you can submit yours. 385 are free to submit to, and 272 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.
To use it, filter by price, link type, review process or category, then open a row for its submit page and our notes. Not sure which ones fit? The startup directory finder scores your description against every directory here. Or we submit by hand: 30+ directories from $49, one-time.
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- 272
- of 421 with a checked link
- Free to submit
- 385
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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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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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Hashnode
hashnode.com
A blogging platform for developers: you get your own publication (on a hashnode.dev subdomain, or a custom domain on Pro) and posts also surface in Hashnode's shared feed. It suits technical…
eLearning Industry
elearningindustry.com
A large eLearning publication with software directories for LMS, authoring tools, AI tools, content providers and related categories, including verified reviews and top lists. L&D teams and training…
Twelve Tools
twelve.tools
A tools directory that highlights twelve picks each day and keeps a categorised catalogue of software. It's browsed by people looking for SaaS and web tools across many categories. Listings get a…
Indie Hackers Products
indiehackers.com
Indie Hackers' product database lists bootstrapped products and side projects, many with self-reported revenue, alongside a daily voting board for product updates. It is read by solo founders and…
OMR Reviews
omr.com
A German B2B software and agency review platform run by the OMR marketing media group, with verified user reviews and category rankings aimed squarely at the DACH market. Business buyers in Germany…
Findly.tools
findly.tools
A curated directory of SaaS and tools for developers, creators and entrepreneurs, with human-reviewed submissions and optional long-form reviews. People browse it by category to find software…
MacPorts
macports.org
The community project behind the MacPorts package system, which builds and installs open-source software on macOS from a tree of thousands of ports browsable at ports.macports.org. Each port page…
Oh Canada Tech Directory (DMZ)
dmz.torontomu.ca
The Oh Canada Tech Directory is run by DMZ, the Toronto Metropolitan University incubator, to help buyers find and buy from Canadian tech companies. Companies with their own software product apply…
AlternativeTo
alternativeto.net
A large crowd-sourced site where people recommend software alternatives across desktop, web and mobile platforms. Adding your app puts it on the 'alternatives to' pages of the products you compete…
Raycast Store
raycast.com
The extension store for the Raycast launcher on Mac, with extensions published through a public GitHub repository. Shipping an integration puts your product inside a popular productivity tool, with…
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…
Startup India (BHASKAR)
startupindia.gov.in
Startup India is the Indian government's startup portal, covering DPIIT recognition, schemes and challenges, and the BHASKAR ecosystem registry. Founders register a startup profile to get a BHASKAR…
Turbo0
turbo0.com
A curated product directory aimed at content creators, organised into categories such as video editing, audio, image editing, copywriting and website creation. It puts filtering and search first…
Setapp
setapp.com
A curated subscription bundle of Mac and iOS apps where members get access to a catalogue for one fee. Accepted developers earn a usage-based revenue share and exposure to members browsing curated…
Jamstack.org
jamstack.org
Jamstack.org is the community site for the Jamstack approach and hosts two well-known lists: static site generators and headless CMSs, each filterable by language, template engine and license…
CSS Design Awards
cssdesignawards.com
CSS Design Awards is a juried web design awards site where submitted websites compete for daily and yearly awards in solo, studio and agency categories. It is a paid entry aimed at design-led sites…
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…
One Page Love
onepagelove.com
A long-running gallery of single-page websites, landing pages and templates, curated for designers and developers. Accepted sites get a showcase page with screenshots, tags and a link to the live…
Changelog News
changelog.com
A Monday newsletter and podcast about software development news, which features community submissions. It is written for developers. Submissions need a URL, a title and a note on why it's…
GetVoIP
getvoip.com
A comparison and review site for business VoIP, unified communications, contact centre and AI voice software, with buyer guides and provider comparisons. Business owners and IT teams use it to…
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
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Each category page explains what that kind of directory is good for and what to prepare before you submit.
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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.