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Product Hot: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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A Mkdirs board that reviews five free listings a day and wants its badge first

producthot.com
Product Hot homepage
Eligibility

Who Product Hot accepts

You need
A live URL
A 1:1 icon and a 16:9 image, PNG or JPEG, under 1MB each
A Google or GitHub account
Their badge on your site (free plan)
You'll be rejected if
Nothing published about who is refused.
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What you actually get
A product page on one of the ShipBoost operator's near-identical Mkdirs boards, with a category, tags, a markdown introduction, a 1:1 icon and a 16:9 image, and up to three followed links. The free queue takes five listings a day and publishes no wait; the $9.90 Pro tier is the same page without the badge or the queue.

How to submit to Product Hot

  1. Log in
    Google or GitHub, or email and password. /submit redirects to the login.
  2. Details
    Link (with an AI Autofill that did nothing on this walk), name, categories and tags from searchable pickers, optional YouTube and GitHub links, a description, a markdown introduction, a 1:1 icon and a 16:9 image.
  3. Payment
    Submit creates the item and opens the plan page with Free selected and Status: Submitting. The free card shows the badge snippet, a Verify Backlink button and Submit to review.
  4. Verify, then submit to review
    Place the badge, verify, then Submit to review. Publish stays 'Not published' until the daily review takes it.

Product Hot requirements

Product link
Product name
Categories
from a searchable list
Tags
from a searchable list
Description
Introduction
markdown
Icon
1:1, PNG or JPEG, under 1MB
Image
16:9, PNG or JPEG, under 1MB
YouTube and GitHub linksoptional
Their badge
free plan, verified before Submit to review

Gotchas

The free queue is five listings a day with no published wait, and the item sits as 'Submitting' in your dashboard until then; the $9.90 Pro tier is the same listing without the queue or the badge.
The badge comes after the form: the details step creates the item first and the snippet only appears on the payment page, so the deploy happens with a half-finished listing parked on their side.
AI Autofill asked to analyse the URL and then filled nothing on this walk; the form has to be typed.

Let your agent submit to Product Hot

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Product Hot 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 5 Product Hot 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, 1 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Product Hot 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 is three dofollow links with a permanent listing, reviewed 'only 5 listed every day', publish on the day you choose, badge required and no support. Pro is $9.90 one time: no backlink, list right now, featured at the top, shared on social and the newsletter. Sponsor is $19.90 a week for a site-wide promotion slot.
Types it into Product Hot 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 Product Hot?".
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Product Hot FAQ

How long does Product Hot approval take?
Product Hot does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Product Hot?
Product Hot has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free is three dofollow links with a permanent listing, reviewed 'only 5 listed every day', publish on the day you choose, badge required and no support. Pro is $9.90 one time: no backlink, list right now, featured at the top, shared on social and the newsletter. Sponsor is $19.90 a week for a site-wide promotion slot.).
Does Product Hot give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Product Hot carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 29.
Does Product Hot require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Product Hot expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Product Hot?
Nothing published about who is refused.