Lobsters

Listing on Lobsters is free.

Story submission is unpaid. An account is required, and new accounts are invitation-gated. Submissions must fit Lobsters' computing focus and use predefined tags. New users, for their first 70 days, cannot submit self-promotion; the About page says self-promotion should be less than a quarter of a user's stories and comments in the past year. No backlink, badge, or wait-period requirement was stated.

Lobsters links to your site with a nofollow link, which asks Google not to count it.

Its Ahrefs Domain Rating is 76.

Lobsters picks only a few of the products submitted.

How many people see your product depends on votes.

Similarweb ranks lobste.rs #50,057 in the world by traffic.

What Lobsters says about its audience: The public Stats page's chart indicates about 3,200 monthly active users around October 2026; it defines active users as people who submitted a story, posted a comment, or cast a vote. The page describes month-to-date and extrapolated values. No visitor-traffic or subscriber count was observed.

You submit to Lobsters through a form, after creating an account.