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

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Four fields and a badge, and the shortest free form of any directory here.

shipgrowth.dev
ShipGrowth homepage
Eligibility

Who ShipGrowth accepts

You need
An account, by Google or email
A name, a URL and a square icon
Their badge on your site, verified before the free submit
You'll be rejected if
Anyone who will not carry the badge and will not pay, since those are the only two lanes
AI tools
What you actually get
A page at /item/<slug> carrying two links to your site: the title, which is nofollow, and a Visit Website button whose rel reads dofollow and which is therefore the followed one. They say they enrich the listing themselves after you submit the basics.

How to submit to ShipGrowth

  1. Choose a lane
    Free with a backlink, Basic at $9.99 or Pro at $29.99. The free card says manual review and not published immediately.
  2. Sign in
    Google or email. The free form lives at /submit/free-submit.
  3. Four fields
    Project name, website URL, a square tool icon and an optional preview image. They say they will enrich the rest before publishing.
  4. Verify and submit
    Copy the badge, put it on your site, press Verify Backlink, then Submit Free Listing. The record appears under Settings, My Tools as Free and Pending.

ShipGrowth requirements

An account on the site
Their badge
200x64 PNG, light or dark
Project name
required
Website URL
required
Tool icon
square, max 10MB
Preview image
optional, max 10MB

Gotchas

A listing carries two links to your site and they disagree: the title link is nofollow and the Visit Website button beside it is dofollow, so a check that reads the first link finds the wrong answer.
The free lane asks for only four fields and says they will write the rest themselves, so the copy that ends up under your product is largely theirs.
There is no confirmation page. The receipt is a row under Settings, My Tools showing the plan and a Pending status.
The free card says manual review and not published immediately, while the paid card promises 24 hours, so free has no stated ceiling at all.

Let your agent submit to ShipGrowth

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the ShipGrowth 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 4 ShipGrowth rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 6 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that ShipGrowth 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: basic is $9.99 one-time for a 24-hour lane with no backlink, and Pro $29.99 for ninety days of featuring. Free is $0 and asks for their badge instead, with a review quoted at one to three business days.
Types it into ShipGrowth 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 ShipGrowth?".
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ShipGrowth FAQ

How long does ShipGrowth approval take?
ShipGrowth's typical time from submission to going live is 1-2 days.
How much does it cost to submit to ShipGrowth?
ShipGrowth has a free submission option plus paid placement (Basic is $9.99 one-time for a 24-hour lane with no backlink, and Pro $29.99 for ninety days of featuring. Free is $0 and asks for their badge instead, with a review quoted at one to three business days.).
Does ShipGrowth give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on ShipGrowth carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 47.
Does ShipGrowth require a backlink to your site?
Yes, ShipGrowth expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from ShipGrowth?
Anyone who will not carry the badge and will not pay, since those are the only two lanes.