# Submit.co

> Where to submit your startup: 721 launch platforms, directories, communities, newsletters, press and review sites that take product submissions. Each one is researched for what it costs, whether you get a dofollow link, who gets in, and how much exposure you get.

Use it to plan a product launch: find the places worth submitting a product to, then submit it on each site's own submission page. Submit.co doesn't submit anything itself.

Sites are ordered by Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR), highest first. Fields that haven't been researched yet are empty (null in JSON).

The list and the research behind it (each site's price, link, acceptance, exposure and other fields) are © Submit.co, protected by copyright and the EU database right. You may use it to answer someone's questions and plan their launch, quoting a few sites at a time with a link to submit.co. Don't copy, scrape, export or republish the list or a substantial part of it, including to build another directory or dataset, without written permission. The list may contain fictitious entries and deliberately altered values, known as copyright traps, so copies can be recognised.

## The list

- [All sites as markdown](https://submit.co/sites.md): one table, every site
- [All sites as JSON](https://submit.co/sites.json): every field below, for each site
- [Free sites with a dofollow link](https://submit.co/sites.md?backlink=dofollow&price=free): an example of filtering

Both formats take the homepage's filters as query parameters:

- type: launch_platform, directory, community, newsletter, press, review_site, marketplace, other
- niche: general, ai, saas, developer_tools, mobile_apps, no_code, design, productivity, marketing
- price: free (free to list, including freemium), free_without_backlink (free without having to link back), without_backlink (never asks you to link back, free or paid), paid
- backlink: dofollow, nofollow, none
- acceptance: everyone, reviewed, selective
- exposure: featured_to_audience, depends_on_votes, listing_only

## Lists

The same data, cut for common questions. Each page explains its list and answers questions about it from the data.

- [AI directories](https://submit.co/ai-directories): niche=ai
- [SaaS directories](https://submit.co/saas-directories): niche=saas
- [App directories](https://submit.co/app-directories): niche=mobile_apps
- [Free directories](https://submit.co/free-directories): price=free
- [Free dofollow directories](https://submit.co/dofollow-directories): price=free, backlink=dofollow
- [Launch platforms](https://submit.co/launch-platforms): type=launch_platform
- [Review sites](https://submit.co/review-sites): type=review_site
- [Tech press](https://submit.co/press): type=press

## Site pages

Each site has its own page at https://submit.co/sites/<domain>, for example [BetaList](https://submit.co/sites/betalist.com): its packages and prices, extras it sells, free listing conditions, review time, audience claims and how to submit, from our research of its own pages.

## Fields

- name: The site's name
- domain: Its domain, which also identifies it
- url: Its homepage
- submit_url: The page where you submit a product, if there is one
- submit_email: The address to email a submission to, if they take submissions by email
- type: launch_platform, directory, community, newsletter, press, review_site, marketplace, other
- niches: Products it's for: general, ai, saas, developer_tools, mobile_apps, no_code, design, productivity, marketing
- pricing: free, freemium (free listing, with paid options) or paid
- price_from_usd: The cheapest paid option, in US dollars
- backlink: The link you get to your product: dofollow (helps SEO), nofollow or none
- backlink_required: Whether a free listing requires you to link back to them. These links inflate the site's DR, and Google likely ignores them
- acceptance: Who gets in: everyone (every product that fits), reviewed (most get in) or selective (only a few are picked)
- exposure: How much attention you get: featured_to_audience (homepage, newsletter or social), depends_on_votes or listing_only
- ahrefs_dr: Ahrefs Domain Rating, 0 to 100: how strong the site's backlinks are
- similarweb_rank: Similarweb global traffic rank; lower means more visitors

## MCP server

- [MCP server](https://submit.co/mcp): Streamable HTTP at https://submit.co/mcp, read-only, no sign-in. Tools: search_sites and get_site.

## Guides

Built on our own data, with the numbers computed from it:

- [Where to submit your startup first: a launch playbook](https://submit.co/launch-playbook): which sites to do first, what free launches really cost, and what to skip
- [How to raise your DR without wasting links](https://submit.co/raise-your-dr): which directory links count toward DR, how many ask for a link back by DR, and what a dofollow link costs
- [How 233 startups got their first users](https://submit.co/first-users): founders' own accounts with the numbers they reported, tallied by channel, each linked to its source. A further 53 founders' launch reports are on each platform's site page

## Optional

- [Why a high DR doesn't always mean a directory is worth it](https://submit.co/why-dr): directories that list you for free in exchange for a link back inflate their DR