Submit your startup to 100+ directories.

Directory submission is the process of listing your startup, SaaS, or AI tool on online directories that catalogue new tools and products. Each listing creates a backlink to your site, exposes you to that directory's audience of founders and early adopters, and helps both Google and AI assistants discover and understand what your product does. A done-for-you service handles the manual submissions for you so you do not have to fill out hundreds of forms.

You can do it manually — find each directory, create an account, and fill in your details one at a time, which typically takes 40–70+ hours — or you can submit your startup to a directory service that does it for you. With the service we recommend, you share your startup details once and it submits your startup to 100+ hand-picked directories, then sends a full report of where you were listed.

Yes, when the directories are high quality. Listings on trusted, high-DR directories create authoritative backlinks that help build your domain authority, and the referral traffic and brand mentions are signals search engines and AI models use to decide who to surface. The key is quality over quantity — which is why the directories here are hand-picked for domain rating and relevance rather than mass-submitted to low-value lists.

There are now hundreds of directories built specifically for AI tools. To submit your AI tool to directories, you provide your tool's name, URL, description, logo, and category, then submit to each one. Because the AI directory landscape changes constantly, most founders submit their AI tool to a directory service that maintains a curated, up-to-date list and handles the submissions for them.

Directory submission is one of the most cost-effective ways to promote your AI tool and market your SaaS. Instead of paying for ads, you submit your AI tool to a directory service that lists it across 100+ relevant directories — each one a backlink, a referral-traffic source, and a place where buyers and AI assistants discover you. It is a one-time effort that keeps working, which is why so many founders use it to advertise their SaaS on a bootstrap budget.

If your time is worth more than a few dollars an hour, yes. Submitting to 100+ directories by hand takes 40–70+ hours of repetitive form-filling, and the list of worthwhile directories changes every month. A service saves you that time, keeps the directory list current, avoids the spam patterns that get DIY submissions rejected, and gives you a clean report — so you can stay focused on building your product.

With no budget and no growth team, the highest-leverage early move is to maximise visibility cheaply: submit your SaaS to startup and AI directories for backlinks and referral traffic, build in public, and let those listings compound your SEO over time. Directory submission is popular with bootstrappers precisely because it is a one-time effort (or a one-time service fee) that keeps paying off in links and discovery for months.

Listings typically go live within a few days. Founders often see referral traffic and early signups within the first week, while the SEO benefit from the backlinks compounds over the following weeks as search engines re-crawl and credit the new links.

Yes — the directories are selected for domain rating (DR) and relevance, including high-DR platforms like Open Tools (DR 69), PeerPush (DR 72), and Uneed (DR 74). The goal is authoritative, relevant links that help your SEO, not a flood of low-value listings.

Yes. You receive a full, transparent submission report listing every directory your startup or tool was submitted to, with links, so you can verify exactly what was done.

Click any "Get Started" button on this page, choose the plan that fits your stage, and share your startup details. The service handles the rest and sends your submission report when your listings are live.

There is no single "best" piece of software, because the directories that matter most, like Product Hunt, G2, BetaList, and Indie Hackers, review submissions by hand and do not accept automated form fills from a tool. The closest thing to a reliable "tool" is a done-for-you manual submission service: you give it your details once, real people submit you to each directory, and you get a report back. That is a better fit for SEO than any bulk-submission software.

Not reliably. Most quality directories detect and reject bot-submitted or duplicate listings, and the ones that do accept bulk submissions tend to be lower-authority link farms that add little SEO value and some risk. Manual submission to a curated, high-DR directory list is the safer, more durable way to build these backlinks.

Scroll down to the directory table on this page. It is the same list this service submits you to, free to browse, search, and filter by category, pricing, dofollow status, or badge requirement, whether or not you ever use the paid service.

A directory submission service uses real people to manually create your listing on each directory, the way that directory expects a genuine submission to look. Directory submission software tries to automate that process, which most directories are built to detect and reject. The service approach has a lower rejection rate and produces backlinks that stay live.

Many of the directories on this list, including Reddit, Medium, G2, and Capterra, are not AI or startup specific and carry real authority for any business website. The service itself is built around startup, SaaS, and AI tool submissions specifically, so if your business is not one of those, check the category filter in the table below to see which listed directories fit your business type before relying on the paid service for it.

More than a handful, but quality matters more than raw count. A relevant, high-DR directory that reviews and approves your listing by hand is worth more than a dozen automated, low-authority ones. That is why this service targets 30 to 100+ directories depending on plan, all manually submitted, rather than mass-submitting to every directory that exists.