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

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The longest form of the week, posting to an endpoint that answers 500

listyourtool.com
ListYourTool homepage
Eligibility

Who ListYourTool accepts

You need
An AI product that fits one of their tags
You'll be rejected if
The tag vocabulary is almost entirely AI generators by output type, so a product that is not one is picking the least wrong label rather than the right one.
AI tools
What you actually get
Unknown, and that is the finding. The submit endpoint answers 500 and the page shows nothing at all, and no tool page could be found anywhere on the site: the home page, the search results and the category pages carry no listings to look at. There are 652 categories and nothing filed under them yet.

How to submit to ListYourTool

  1. Fill the long form
    Name, URL, a short description capped at 150 characters, a detailed one capped at 2000, optional features, a How to Use of up to 1000 characters, up to eight use cases, up to five FAQ items, one to three tags, a pricing model, a price, your name and your email.
  2. Press Submit Tool for Review
    At the time of writing this posts to /api/tools/submit and comes back 500, with no message on the page.

ListYourTool requirements

A live URL
Short description
150 characters
Tags
One to three, from a list of 652
Price
Required even on a freemium product

Gotchas

The submit button does nothing. It posts to their API and gets a 500 back, and the page does not say so: no error, no spinner, no change. Watch the network tab or you will think you missed a field.
Price is required whatever pricing model you pick, so a free product has to put a number in a box that will be rendered as a monthly price.
The tag list is 652 entries of the form AI Something Generator. There is an AI SEO Tools and an AI Marketing under Marketing and Advertising, which is as close as most non-generator products will get.
No listing could be found anywhere on the site, so there is nothing to judge the link or the traffic by.

Let your agent submit to ListYourTool

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the ListYourTool 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 2 ListYourTool rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 4 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into ListYourTool 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 ListYourTool?".
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ListYourTool FAQ

How long does ListYourTool approval take?
ListYourTool does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to ListYourTool?
Submitting to ListYourTool is free.
Does ListYourTool give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from ListYourTool are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 16.
Does ListYourTool require a backlink to your site?
No, ListYourTool does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from ListYourTool?
The tag vocabulary is almost entirely AI generators by output type, so a product that is not one is picking the least wrong label rather than the right one.