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
- 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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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…
ScrollLaunch
scrolllaunch.com
A weekly launch board for indie makers that pairs a leaderboard with SEO-focused public product pages and a newsletter recap. Its visitors are mostly other founders and people hunting for small SaaS…
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…
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…
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…
Lawyerist
lawyerist.com
A media and coaching company for small law firms that publishes legal software and product reviews by category, practice guides, a podcast and newsletters. Solo and small-firm lawyers in the US and…
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…
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…
OpenHunts
openhunts.com
A weekly launch board where a limited batch of products goes live every Monday and is ranked by community votes over the week. Its visitors are mostly makers, early adopters and people hunting for…
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…
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…
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…
JavaScript Weekly
javascriptweekly.com
Cooperpress's biggest newsletter: a weekly roundup of JavaScript articles, releases and interesting projects, running since 2010. It's read by JavaScript and web developers. New libraries and tools…
Mindsparkle Mag
mindsparklemag.com
Mindsparkle Mag is a design magazine that features websites and design projects and gives Site of the Day awards. Paid website submissions compete for a feature and promotion on its site and social…
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…
AI Directories
aidirectori.es
Sergiu Chiriac's site, best known for a done-for-you service that submits your product to 100+ directories, also runs its own AI tools directory with a page per tool. Founders use the listing for a…
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.