Directory database · last checked Sep 24, 2026
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
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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MCP.so
mcp.so
A large marketplace of Model Context Protocol servers, clients, skills and AI agents, used heavily by developers. You submit your project from its repository URL, and a paid option publishes it…
SoftwareReviews
softwarereviews.com
The software review arm of Info-Tech Research Group, publishing detailed user-satisfaction reports, category quadrants and vendor awards for enterprise software. IT leaders who follow Info-Tech…
Acquire.com
acquire.com
A startup acquisition marketplace (formerly MicroAcquire) where founders list SaaS and other online businesses for sale to a large pool of vetted buyers. Acquirers, search funds and investors browse…
StartupBase
startupbase.io
A daily launch site where products get a launch day on the homepage plus a permanent listing, topic pages and newsletter exposure. Its visitors are founders and people looking for new tools. Premium…
Dofollow.Tools
dofollow.tools
A directory of AI tools and SaaS products built around giving listed products a dofollow link. Browsed by creators and small businesses looking for tools, and by makers after backlinks. Paid…
Startup Fast
startupfa.st
A daily launch board and startup directory where products launch at 8:00 AM UTC and climb a daily ranking through community votes. It presents itself as an open-source Product Hunt alternative…
Aura++
auraplusplus.com
A daily launch platform that bundles a product page with badges, an optional AI-written launch blog post and social distribution. Founders and makers use it to schedule launches and collect votes…
TinyLaunch
tinylaunch.com
A small-product launch platform where products rotate on the homepage for several days and compete for top-3 badges. Mostly browsed by indie hackers and other makers. Winners and paid launches get a…
Futurepedia
futurepedia.io
A large AI tools directory with its own newsletter, YouTube channel and courses, aimed at professionals using AI at work. A paid listing gets a tool page, and the higher tier adds an enhanced page…
FeaturedCustomers
featuredcustomers.com
A B2B customer reference platform that collects case studies, testimonials and customer success stories for software and service vendors. Buyers late in the funnel use it to see who actually uses a…
The AI & Software Report
theaisoftwarereport.com
A New York-based publication (formerly The Software Report) covering software sector news, funding and M&A, and publishing yearly 'top companies' and 'top executives' award lists built from…
Open Launch
open-launch.com
A daily launch platform positioned as a Product Hunt alternative, with launches going live each morning UTC and a community upvote ranking. Visitors are makers and tech enthusiasts. Premium launches…
FoundrList
foundrlist.com
A social network for founders that includes a weekly launch leaderboard alongside a feed, chat and profiles. Startups, SaaS products and indie tools get a public listing with votes and comments. Its…
Launch Llama Newsletter
launchllama.co
A Tuesday newsletter that features five new AI and developer tools for founders, backed by a tools directory on the same site. Readers are founders and builders. Tools can be featured free if you…
Product Watch
productwatch.io
A community feed of new tech products where makers launch and early adopters upvote, comment and follow products. It publishes weekly and yearly 'best of' highlights by category. A launch gets a…
SideProjectors
sideprojectors.com
A marketplace for buying and selling side projects that also lets makers simply showcase what they've built. Developers, indie makers and small buyers browse it for projects and acquisition…
AI工具集 (ai-bot.cn)
ai-bot.cn
One of the best-known Chinese AI tool navigation sites, with over a thousand domestic and international tools, daily AI news, tutorials and an AI encyclopedia. Inclusion is sold as a written…
The Rundown AI
therundown.ai
A daily AI news newsletter that also runs Supertools, a directory of AI tools. People recommend tools for the directory, and a feature in the newsletter itself is sold as advertising. Its readers…
KillerStartups
killerstartups.com
A long-running startup publication that has reviewed tens of thousands of startups since 2007 and now also covers entrepreneurship, finance and remote work. Readers are founders and people…
Awesome MCP Servers (mcpservers.org)
mcpservers.org
A directory of Model Context Protocol servers and agent skills for developers building with Claude, Cursor and other AI agents. Submissions are free with a slow review, or a one-time premium buys a…
NachoNacho
nachonacho.com
A B2B SaaS and AI discount marketplace where businesses discover tools through a recommendation engine and buy them at pre-negotiated discounts, paying through NachoNacho. SMB owners and startup…
Tiny Startups
tinystartups.com
A curated launch platform and directory for small, indie-built startups, where every listing is approved by hand. It is followed by indie founders through the site and a weekly newsletter, and also…
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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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.