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Smol Spot: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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Eligibility

Who Smol Spot accepts

You need
A live public URL
A square logo and a landscape product image
Their badge on a page they can reach
You'll be rejected if
No badge means no free listing at all, not merely a nofollow link: the launch step will not advance without it.
Indie productsSaaS productsAI toolsDeveloper tools
What you actually get
A card for small indie products in a launch feed that runs a limited number of projects a day at 08:00 UTC, reviewed and listed within up to 30 days on the free lane. The link follows once their verifier has found your badge; listings without one carry rel="nofollow". This is one of roughly twenty near-identical sites built on DirEasy by the same operator, sharing copy, forms and the badge trade, so treat the neighbourhood as one network rather than as separate audiences.

How to submit to Smol Spot

  1. Sign in
    Google, GitHub or email and password. Google creates the account on the first click. Set the display name afterwards: it arrives from the provider and prints as the maker.
  2. Project Info
    Name, website URL, an optional affiliate URL, a description in a rich text box, a square logo and a landscape product image.
  3. Details
    Up to three categories from a searchable list of several hundred, up to five tech stack tags, platforms, a pricing model, and optional GitHub and X links.
  4. Launch type and badge
    The free lane is selected by default. Copy the badge snippet, put it live, then press Verify Backlink. Next stays disabled until that passes.
  5. Review
    A last screen before the launch date is confirmed.

Smol Spot requirements

A live public URL
Logo
1:1 square, under 1MB
Product image
16:9, around 800x450
Categories
Up to 3
Tech stack
Up to 5 tags
Badge
Live and verified before the form will advance

Gotchas

The badge is a gate in the middle rather than a last step: the launch screen will not advance until their verifier has found it, so you deploy to your own site before you can choose a date.
The dofollow is the badge's reward rather than the listing's default, so a listing that goes up without one carries rel="nofollow" like the rest of the feed.
Around twenty sites run this same engine with the same copy and the same trade, so filling this one teaches the others and submitting to all of them is not twenty audiences.

Let your agent submit to Smol Spot

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Smol Spot 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 Smol Spot 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 Smol Spot looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Types it into Smol Spot 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 Smol Spot?".
Connect your agentHow this worksTools and endpointsWorks with Claude Code, Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Hermes.

Smol Spot FAQ

How long does Smol Spot approval take?
Smol Spot's typical time from submission to going live is 2-4 weeks.
How much does it cost to submit to Smol Spot?
Submitting to Smol Spot is free.
Does Smol Spot give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Smol Spot carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 28.
Does Smol Spot require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Smol Spot expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Smol Spot?
No badge means no free listing at all, not merely a nofollow link: the launch step will not advance without it.