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DebutPin: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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A daily indie leaderboard whose free lane is paid for with a link on your site.

debutpin.com
DebutPin homepage
Eligibility

Who DebutPin accepts

You need
An account (GitHub, Google or email)
A link to DebutPin on your own site, kept up, unless you buy it out for $5.90
You'll be rejected if
A site that cannot carry their link: the free submit is gated on their checker finding it first
Indie productsAI toolsDeveloper toolsApps
What you actually get
A product page and a place on a community-voted daily board that resets at midnight Pacific, with pins that stay on the page. The outbound link to your site carried no nofollow on the live listing we read, on all tiers. The site was registered in September 2026 and holds a few dozen products, so the board is small and the votes are counted in single digits.

How to submit to DebutPin

  1. Sign in and set up
    Submit product sends you to /login: GitHub, Google or an email address and password. The first visit asks for a username (3 to 30 lowercase characters, fixed for good) and a display name, prefilled with the account's name.
  2. Product details
    Website URL, a logo pin (square, up to 5MB, with shape, finish and film options), name, a one-line description, a markdown description, up to ten features one per line, up to three topics, at least one platform and a required promo image. Nothing is public until you publish.
  3. Link or buyout
    Free needs their badge on the page you gave as the website URL, with no nofollow or sponsored on it; $5.90 buys the link out and $15.90 adds seven days at the top of the homepage. Verify site reads your page on the spot.
  4. Publish
    Live the moment you press it, at /p/your-slug, with a Fresh Pin on the card and 20 votes a day per account. The badge is re-checked every seven days.

DebutPin requirements

Website URL
Name
60 characters
One-line description
120 characters
Description
markdown
Features
up to 10, one per line
Topics
up to 3
Platform
at least one
Logo
square JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 5MB
Promo image
JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 5MB
Their badge on your website URL page, for the free tier

Gotchas

The free submit does not open until their checker finds a link to DebutPin on your site, and it keeps checking every seven days: take it down and the listing is on the clock.
The $15.90 week at the top is a labelled Sponsored wall, not a rank: votes decide the board on every tier, so paying buys a pin and not a position.
Registered in September 2026 with a few dozen products on it, so a launch here lands on a board where two votes puts you in the top three.

Let your agent submit to DebutPin

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the DebutPin playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 3 DebutPin rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 10 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that DebutPin looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: free: a full listing, live the moment you publish, paid for with a link to DebutPin on your own site that is verified before you submit and re-checked every seven days. $5.90 once buys that link out of the re-check queue for good. $15.90 once adds seven days at the top of the homepage in the labelled Sponsored pin wall. Paying never changes the vote ranking.
Types it into DebutPin in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to DebutPin?".
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DebutPin FAQ

How long does DebutPin approval take?
DebutPin's typical time from submission to going live is instant.
How much does it cost to submit to DebutPin?
DebutPin has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free: a full listing, live the moment you publish, paid for with a link to DebutPin on your own site that is verified before you submit and re-checked every seven days. $5.90 once buys that link out of the re-check queue for good. $15.90 once adds seven days at the top of the homepage in the labelled Sponsored pin wall. Paying never changes the vote ranking.).
Does DebutPin give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on DebutPin carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 8.
Does DebutPin require a backlink to your site?
Yes, DebutPin expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from DebutPin?
A site that cannot carry their link: the free submit is gated on their checker finding it first.