{ "source": "https://submitmap.com", "description": "SubmitMap launch platform directory. Each record: eligibility, submission steps, requirements, gotchas, approval time, and an agentPrompt template ({PLACEHOLDERS} to fill).", "platforms": [ { "slug": "appsumo", "name": "AppSumo", "mark": "AS", "brand": "#B8532A", "url": "https://sell.appsumo.com", "domain": "appsumo.com", "tagline": "A marketplace of deal-hunting buyers. Real revenue, on their terms.", "categories": [ "saas", "marketplace" ], "pricing": "paid", "priceNote": "Rev share", "domainRating": 88, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "2–8 weeks", "approvalDays": 42, "expectedOutcome": "A listed deal commonly does $10k–$100k gross in its first months, minus AppSumo's share. You also inherit hundreds of demanding lifetime users who will file feature requests forever.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Established SaaS", "Web apps", "B2B tools", "Marketplace listings" ], "mustHave": [ "Must offer a lifetime / one-time payment tier", "Infrastructure that survives a thousand signups in a week", "A support process, because deal reviews are public and brutal", "Existing paying customers and a stable product" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Subscription-only pricing is rejected", "Products that can't be licensed perpetually, such as thin API resellers", "Pre-launch products with no customers" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Apply as a partner", "body": "Submit the product, your metrics and a proposed deal structure through sell.appsumo.com. Expect a call before anything is agreed." }, { "title": "Design the lifetime tiers", "body": "Usually three tiers with escalating limits. Price so a one-time payment still covers years of hosting for that user, not just the first month." }, { "title": "Negotiate the split and the window", "body": "Ask about the revenue share, the length of the deal window, and whether you can run the same offer elsewhere afterwards." }, { "title": "Staff support before launch", "body": "Write the docs, clear the inbox, and set roadmap expectations in the listing itself. Reviews land in the first two weeks and stay forever." } ], "requirements": [ "Lifetime pricing tier", "Paying customers", "Support capacity", "Deal video, copy and screenshots" ], "gotchas": [ "Lifetime buyers are your loudest reviewers and your least profitable users. Price for that.", "Refund windows are generous, so gross revenue in week one is not revenue yet." ], "agentPrompt": "You are preparing an AppSumo partner application.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\nCurrent pricing: {PRICING}\nMetrics: {MRR}, {CUSTOMERS}, {CHURN}\n\n1. Design three lifetime deal tiers with limits and prices, showing the per-user cost assumption behind each.\n2. Write the deal page headline and a 400-character description.\n3. List the questions I must ask about revenue share, exclusivity and refund window.\n4. Flag any part of my current pricing that disqualifies the application.\nReturn as plain text, ready to paste.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/appsumo/" }, { "slug": "product-hunt", "name": "Product Hunt", "mark": "PH", "brand": "#C1502E", "url": "https://www.producthunt.com", "domain": "producthunt.com", "tagline": "The default launch stage. High traffic for one day, a permanent backlink after.", "categories": [ "ai", "saas", "dev-tools" ], "pricing": "free", "domainRating": 91, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "Same day", "approvalDays": 1, "expectedOutcome": "A top-five finish usually means 800–3,000 visitors on launch day and a handful of paying users. Below tenth place it's mostly a backlink and a badge.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Web apps", "Mobile apps", "AI tools", "Dev tools", "Free tools" ], "mustHave": [ "A live product anyone can try without a sales call", "A 240×240 logo and three gallery images or a short demo video" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Waitlists and landing pages with no working product", "Reposting the same product within six months" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Schedule for 12:01am PT", "body": "The leaderboard resets at midnight Pacific. Launching mid-day costs you voting hours you can't get back." }, { "title": "Write the tagline as a benefit", "body": "60 characters, no company name. Say what it does for one specific person." }, { "title": "Post the maker comment first", "body": "Publish it within minutes of going live, then reply to everything for six hours." } ], "requirements": [ "Working product URL", "240×240 logo", "3+ gallery images" ], "gotchas": [ "Asking for upvotes in public gets the launch penalised. Share the link, never the ask." ], "agentPrompt": "You are submitting my product to Product Hunt.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\n\n1. Draft a 60-character tagline stating a concrete benefit.\n2. Draft a 260-character description in plain language.\n3. Draft the maker's first comment: why I built it, what it doesn't do yet, one question for the community.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/product-hunt/" }, { "slug": "show-hn", "name": "Show HN", "mark": "HN", "brand": "#B5651D", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/show", "domain": "news.ycombinator.com", "tagline": "The most technical audience you can reach for free, and the least forgiving.", "categories": [ "dev-tools", "ai", "saas" ], "pricing": "free", "domainRating": 92, "dofollow": false, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "Instant", "approvalDays": 0, "expectedOutcome": "Front page means 5,000–40,000 visitors in a day and genuinely useful criticism. Most Show HNs get 2–15 points and a hundred visitors, which is still worth twenty minutes.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Web apps", "Dev tools", "Open source", "Free tools", "Hardware" ], "mustHave": [ "Something people can try right now without signing up", "A title in the form 'Show HN: '" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Landing pages, waitlists and email-gated demos", "Vote solicitation anywhere, which gets detected and the post buried" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Title it plainly", "body": "'Show HN: A CLI that diffs two Postgres schemas.' No adjectives, no launch language." }, { "title": "Post the text comment", "body": "Two short paragraphs: what it does, and what you learned building it." }, { "title": "Answer every reply fast", "body": "Conceding a limitation reliably earns upvotes. Defensiveness does the opposite." } ], "requirements": [ "Working demo or repo", "No signup wall", "Show HN title format" ], "gotchas": [ "A demo that requires an account is the fastest route to a hostile thread." ], "agentPrompt": "You are preparing a Show HN post.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\n\n1. Write three candidate titles in the form 'Show HN: ...', plain and specific.\n2. Write the comment: two paragraphs under 150 words, including one honest technical limitation.\n3. List five likely critical questions with a one-line honest answer each.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/show-hn/" }, { "slug": "chrome-web-store", "name": "Chrome Web Store", "mark": "CW", "brand": "#2F6FB5", "url": "https://chromewebstore.google.com", "domain": "chromewebstore.google.com", "tagline": "Distribution for extensions, with a review process that reads your permissions closely.", "categories": [ "dev-tools", "marketplace" ], "pricing": "paid", "priceNote": "$5 one-time", "domainRating": 96, "dofollow": false, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "1–14 days", "approvalDays": 14, "expectedOutcome": "Organic install traffic that compounds for years if you rank for a search term. A first-week install count in the low hundreds is normal without outside promotion.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Browser extensions", "Marketplace listings" ], "mustHave": [ "A packaged extension with a manifest and a privacy policy URL", "A written justification for every permission requested" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Broad host permissions with no stated reason", "Undisclosed data collection or affiliate link injection" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Register and verify", "body": "One-time $5 fee, then verify your publisher identity. Unverified publishers get a warning banner." }, { "title": "Write the permission justifications", "body": "One specific sentence per permission. Vague answers are the main cause of long reviews." }, { "title": "Prepare store assets", "body": "128×128 icon, 1280×800 screenshots, and a short description opening with your target search term." } ], "requirements": [ "Packaged extension", "Privacy policy URL", "Permission justifications", "128×128 icon" ], "gotchas": [ "Adding a permission in an update can trigger a fresh full review and pause distribution." ], "agentPrompt": "You are preparing a Chrome Web Store submission.\n\nExtension: {NAME}\nPermissions: {PERMISSIONS}\n\n1. Write a one-sentence justification per permission, tied to the feature that needs it.\n2. Write the 132-character short description opening with the main search term, plus the full description.\n3. Flag any permission likely to slow review and suggest a narrower alternative.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/chrome-web-store/" }, { "slug": "g2", "name": "G2", "mark": "G2", "brand": "#B03A48", "url": "https://www.g2.com", "domain": "g2.com", "tagline": "Buyer-intent reviews. Slow, bureaucratic, and where B2B software gets compared.", "categories": [ "saas", "marketplace" ], "pricing": "freemium", "priceNote": "Paid for lead data", "domainRating": 92, "dofollow": false, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "1–3 weeks", "approvalDays": 21, "expectedOutcome": "Little traffic until you have roughly ten reviews, then steady comparison-page visitors with high purchase intent. A quarters-long play, not a launch.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "B2B tools", "Established SaaS", "Marketplace listings" ], "mustHave": [ "A business-facing product with customers willing to review it", "A verifiable company identity and domain email" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Consumer apps and personal tools", "Incentivised or employee-written reviews, which get stripped" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Claim the profile", "body": "Verify with a company domain email, then complete categories, pricing and screenshots." }, { "title": "Collect the first ten reviews", "body": "Ask customers directly with G2's review link. Below ten reviews the profile barely surfaces." }, { "title": "Fight for the right category", "body": "Category choice decides which comparison pages you appear on." } ], "requirements": [ "Company domain email", "B2B product", "Customers who will review" ], "gotchas": [ "Free profiles have limited control over what appears on them." ], "agentPrompt": "You are setting up a G2 profile.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\nSegment: {SEGMENT}\n\n1. Pick the primary and two secondary categories, with reasoning.\n2. Write the profile description in 500 characters.\n3. Draft a review request email that complies with G2's no-incentive rules.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/g2/" }, { "slug": "betalist", "name": "BetaList", "mark": "BL", "brand": "#3F7F6B", "url": "https://betalist.com", "domain": "betalist.com", "tagline": "Early-stage startups shown to an audience that expects rough edges.", "categories": [ "saas", "ai" ], "pricing": "freemium", "priceNote": "$129 skips the queue", "domainRating": 78, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "2–8 weeks", "approvalDays": 42, "expectedOutcome": "Roughly 100–400 visitors over a week and a trickle of newsletter signups. Its real value is the durable backlink and being scraped by other directories.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Pre-launch startups", "Web apps", "AI tools" ], "mustHave": [ "A product that is genuinely early, since finished products get rejected as not newsworthy", "A clean landing page with signup or email capture" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Established products with years of public history", "Agencies, courses and consultancies" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Submit the startup", "body": "Name, URL, one-sentence pitch and a category. Short form, manual review." }, { "title": "Upload a 3:2 screenshot", "body": "They crop to a wide card. Show the product, not a hero headline." }, { "title": "Decide on the queue", "body": "Free waits weeks with no guarantee; paid review publishes in days." } ], "requirements": [ "Landing page with signup", "3:2 screenshot", "One-sentence pitch" ], "gotchas": [ "Being 'too finished' is the most common rejection reason." ], "agentPrompt": "You are submitting my early-stage startup to BetaList.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\n\n1. Write a one-sentence pitch under 140 characters that makes clear the product is early.\n2. Write a 300-character third-person description.\n3. Pick the closest category and describe the ideal 3:2 screenshot.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/betalist/" }, { "slug": "indie-hackers", "name": "Indie Hackers", "mark": "IH", "brand": "#2D6BA8", "url": "https://www.indiehackers.com", "domain": "indiehackers.com", "tagline": "A community that rewards revenue numbers and post-mortems, not launches.", "categories": [ "saas", "ai", "dev-tools" ], "pricing": "free", "domainRating": 83, "dofollow": false, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "Instant", "approvalDays": 0, "expectedOutcome": "A good milestone post gets 300–1,500 visitors and real conversations with other founders. Pure launch announcements get almost nothing.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Side projects", "Web apps", "Established SaaS", "Free tools" ], "mustHave": [ "A story with specifics: MRR, churn, what you tried that failed", "A claimed product page under your own URL" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Announcement-only posts with no lesson or numbers", "Funded startups pitching without disclosing funding" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Create the product page", "body": "Claim your product and connect revenue if you're comfortable. Product pages accumulate followers." }, { "title": "Post as a milestone", "body": "Lead with the number or the lesson. The title should be a fact, not a pitch." }, { "title": "Stay in the thread for two days", "body": "Discussion keeps posts alive far longer than upvotes do." } ], "requirements": [ "Product page", "A specific number or lesson" ], "gotchas": [ "'I just launched X' is the lowest-performing title format on the site." ], "agentPrompt": "You are drafting an Indie Hackers post.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\nNumbers: {METRICS}\n\n1. Write three titles that lead with a number or a lesson, never with 'I launched'.\n2. Write a 400-word post: what I tried, the numbers, what I'd do differently.\n3. End with one open question for other founders.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/indie-hackers/" }, { "slug": "theres-an-ai-for-that", "name": "There's An AI For That", "mark": "TA", "brand": "#6B5BA8", "url": "https://theresanaiforthat.com", "domain": "theresanaiforthat.com", "tagline": "The largest AI tool index. Heavy search traffic, paid submission.", "categories": [ "ai" ], "pricing": "paid", "priceNote": "Paid tiers only", "domainRating": 80, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "2–10 days", "approvalDays": 10, "expectedOutcome": "300–2,000 visitors a month if you rank on a task page people actually search. Conversion is low but the volume is real and it doesn't decay like a launch.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "AI tools", "Web apps", "AI agents" ], "mustHave": [ "A product with a genuine AI component", "A clear task that matches one of their task pages" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Non-AI tools with AI in the marketing copy", "Dead or waitlist-only links" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Find your task page", "body": "Search their taxonomy for the task you want to rank on. That page, not the homepage, is where the traffic comes from." }, { "title": "Pay for the tier", "body": "Tiers differ in review speed and placement. The cheapest paid tier is usually enough." }, { "title": "Write for the task", "body": "Repeat the task language a buyer would type into search." } ], "requirements": [ "Live AI product", "Logo", "Task category match" ], "gotchas": [ "A crowded task page means you rank on page four and see nothing." ], "agentPrompt": "You are submitting my AI tool to There's An AI For That.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\n\n1. Identify three task categories, ranked by likely traffic versus competition.\n2. Write a 300-character description in the task language buyers search for.\n3. List the tags to apply.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/theres-an-ai-for-that/" }, { "slug": "peerlist", "name": "Peerlist", "mark": "PL", "brand": "#2E8B6E", "url": "https://peerlist.io/scroll/projects", "domain": "peerlist.io", "tagline": "A professional network for builders with a weekly project spotlight.", "categories": [ "dev-tools", "design", "saas" ], "pricing": "free", "domainRating": 72, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "1–3 days", "approvalDays": 3, "expectedOutcome": "200–800 visitors if you place in the weekly spotlight, plus a project page that ranks for your product name.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Side projects", "Design work", "Open source", "Dev tools" ], "mustHave": [ "A completed Peerlist profile, since projects from empty profiles get ignored", "A cover image and a working project link" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Anonymous submissions with no maker profile", "Affiliate sites and content farms" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Fill the profile first", "body": "The spotlight is curated by humans who look at who's submitting." }, { "title": "Add the project", "body": "Title, tagline, stack tags, cover image, live link and repo." }, { "title": "Enter the weekly spotlight", "body": "Entries close mid-week and results publish Friday." } ], "requirements": [ "Complete profile", "Cover image", "Live project link" ], "gotchas": [ "Stack tags drive most of the internal discovery, so fill them all in." ], "agentPrompt": "You are submitting my project to Peerlist's spotlight.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\nStack: {STACK}\n\n1. Write a project title and a 100-character tagline.\n2. Write a 400-character description aimed at other developers.\n3. List the stack tags and describe the cover image.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/peerlist/" }, { "slug": "uneed", "name": "Uneed", "mark": "UN", "brand": "#0F7A86", "url": "https://www.uneed.best", "domain": "uneed.best", "tagline": "A small, well-run tools directory with a daily and weekly leaderboard.", "categories": [ "ai", "saas", "no-code" ], "pricing": "freemium", "priceNote": "Paid placement", "domainRating": 60, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "3–7 days", "approvalDays": 7, "expectedOutcome": "100–300 visitors around the day you're featured, and a dofollow link from a directory that isn't obviously spam, which is rarer than it should be.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "AI tools", "Web apps", "No-code tools", "Free tools" ], "mustHave": [ "A live product with a clear pricing page", "A logo and at least one screenshot" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Broken or parked links", "Products already listed, since duplicates get removed" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Submit the tool", "body": "Name, URL, tagline, category and pricing model. Five minutes." }, { "title": "Pick a launch day", "body": "You choose the day you appear on the leaderboard. Mondays are the most contested." }, { "title": "Share the leaderboard link", "body": "Votes are open all day; the top three get the newsletter mention." } ], "requirements": [ "Logo", "Screenshot", "Pricing page" ], "gotchas": [ "Free listings can be scheduled weeks out, so check the calendar first." ], "agentPrompt": "You are submitting my tool to Uneed.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\n\n1. Write a 90-character tagline.\n2. Write a 250-character description.\n3. Pick the best-fitting category and pricing tag.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/uneed/" }, { "slug": "devhunt", "name": "DevHunt", "mark": "DH", "brand": "#4A6FA5", "url": "https://devhunt.org", "domain": "devhunt.org", "tagline": "A weekly leaderboard for developer tools only, run by the community.", "categories": [ "dev-tools" ], "pricing": "free", "domainRating": 55, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "1–5 days", "approvalDays": 5, "expectedOutcome": "150–600 developer visitors during your week, and a link from a site that lists nothing but dev tools, so the relevance is high.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Dev tools", "Open source", "Free tools" ], "mustHave": [ "A tool aimed at developers, with docs or a README", "A public GitHub repository" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Consumer apps and general SaaS", "Tools with no documentation" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Submit with the repo", "body": "URL, repo, one-liner and category. Reviewed by maintainers." }, { "title": "Pick your week", "body": "The leaderboard runs Monday to Sunday against roughly ten other tools." }, { "title": "Post where developers follow you", "body": "Most votes come from the maker's own network in the first hours." } ], "requirements": [ "Public repo", "Docs or README", "Developer-facing tool" ], "gotchas": [ "A missing README is the most common rejection." ], "agentPrompt": "You are submitting my developer tool to DevHunt.\n\nTool: {NAME} ({URL})\nRepo: {REPO}\n\n1. Write a one-liner under 80 characters aimed at developers.\n2. Write a 300-character description naming the language and the problem solved.\n3. Suggest the category and three tags.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/devhunt/" }, { "slug": "microlaunch", "name": "MicroLaunch", "mark": "ML", "brand": "#8A5AA0", "url": "https://microlaunch.net", "domain": "microlaunch.net", "tagline": "Daily launches for small products, with far less competition than the big boards.", "categories": [ "saas", "ai", "no-code" ], "pricing": "freemium", "priceNote": "Paid featured spot", "domainRating": 48, "dofollow": true, "requiresBacklink": false, "approvalTime": "1–4 days", "approvalDays": 4, "expectedOutcome": "50–250 visitors on launch day. Small, but the top spot is genuinely reachable with a modest audience.", "eligibility": { "accepts": [ "Side projects", "AI tools", "No-code tools", "Web apps" ], "mustHave": [ "A live product page", "A logo and one screenshot" ], "disqualifiers": [ "Waitlists", "Duplicate submissions" ] }, "submissionSteps": [ { "title": "Reserve a launch date", "body": "The calendar shows how crowded each day is. Pick a thin one." }, { "title": "Fill the launch page", "body": "Logo, screenshots, tagline, description, links." }, { "title": "Rally on launch morning", "body": "Fifteen to twenty votes is often enough to lead the day." } ], "requirements": [ "Logo", "Screenshot", "Live product" ], "gotchas": [ "Traffic is small enough that this is a backlink play more than a launch." ], "agentPrompt": "You are submitting my product to MicroLaunch.\n\nProduct: {NAME} ({URL})\n\n1. Write an 80-character tagline.\n2. Write a 250-character description.\n3. Suggest the least contested launch day this month and why.\nReturn as plain text.", "page": "https://submitmap.com/platform/microlaunch/" } ] }