130 places to get backlinks to your site

Free listings

Submit on the free route. These are listings and profiles, not news pitches.

• AlternativeTo — Software makers offering an alternative to an existing app.
• Betabound — Teams recruiting beta testers for a real product.
• Crozdesk — Business software vendors with a usable SaaS product.
• Feedough — AI startup founders with a product ready for editorial review.
• Google Business Profile — Businesses that meet customers in person or at a service area.
• Show HN — Technical founders with something people can try.
• Product Hunt — Makers launching a usable tech product.
• Startup Europe — Startups based in Europe.
• TrustRadius — B2B software companies with an existing or eligible product profile.

Free, skip the upgrade

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• MarsX AI Startups — Founders of AI products and AI startups.
• AI ToolBoard — AI tool founders who have not used their free listing allowance.
• GoodFirms — Software vendors and service firms with a relevant category.
• Awesome Indie — Indie founders launching a small usable product.
• CtrlAltCC — Indie makers launching software or side projects.
• DevHunt — Developer tool makers seeking a permanent product page.
• G2 — B2B software vendors that fit a software buyer category.
• Hive Index — Founders running an online community.
• Launching Next — Early stage tech startups seeking launch exposure.
• Open Startup List — Open startups already publishing their business metrics.
• PitchWall — Founders launching an AI tool or digital product.
• Resource.fyi — Makers of useful digital tools and resources.
• SaaSHub — Live, English language SaaS and software products.
• SoftwareSuggest — B2B software vendors serving active software buyers.
• Startup Ranking — Startup founders building a public company profile.
• Startups.watch — Startup founders seeking ecosystem and investor visibility.
• TechDirectory — Technology businesses seeking a company directory profile.
• ToolScout — AI tool makers and maintainers of useful open source AI projects.
• Trustpilot — Businesses with real customers and a public review presence.
• Uneed — Makers who can wait for a free product launch slot.

Free communities

Read the current rules before you post. If promotion is not allowed, skip it.

• r/plugyourproduct — Makers introducing a concrete product and its use case.
• r/thesidehustle — Small business founders sharing a concrete side business lesson.
• Crunchbase — Startups building a public company and funding profile.
• Hashnode — Developer tool makers and technical founders.
• r/advancedentrepreneur — Experienced founders sharing a substantive operating lesson.
• r/alphaandbetausers — Founders recruiting alpha or beta users for a working product.
• r/artificialinteligence — AI builders sharing a technical demo or useful AI discussion.
• r/askmarketing — Founders asking a focused marketing question with useful context.
• r/betatests — Product teams looking for people to try a real beta.
• r/business_ideas — Founders testing a business concept with a specific question.
• r/businessideas — Founders seeking input on a clearly explained business concept.
• r/coupons — Businesses with a genuine, relevant discount or coupon.
• r/design — Design focused founders sharing work relevant to designers.
• r/design_critiques — Founders seeking specific feedback on a design or interface.
• r/emailmarketing — Email tool makers sharing a useful email marketing case study.
• r/entrepreneurridealong — Founders documenting the process and numbers behind building a business.
• r/entrepreneurship — Founders sharing a practical entrepreneurship question or lesson.
• r/frontend — Front end tool builders sharing a technical demo or implementation.
• r/growinpublic — Founders sharing concrete progress, experiments and business results.
• r/growmybusiness — Business owners seeking targeted feedback on a growth problem.
• r/growthhacking — Founders sharing a measured growth experiment and its results.
• r/imadethis — Makers showing something they personally built.
• r/indiebiz — Independent business owners sharing a small business project.
• r/indiehackers — Bootstrapped makers sharing a product or build lesson.
• r/internetisbeautiful — Makers of novel, usable websites with a strong discovery angle.
• r/ladybusiness — Women founders sharing relevant business experience.
• r/marketing — Founders with a practical marketing case study or discussion.
• r/microsaas — Micro SaaS founders seeking focused product feedback.
• r/nichewebsites — Founders building niche content websites or web businesses.
• r/nocode — Makers showing what they built with no code tools.
• r/nocodesaas — No code SaaS makers showing a working product or build process.
• r/producthunters — Makers discussing a Product Hunt launch and useful launch feedback.
• r/programming — Developer tool makers sharing substantive technical content.
• r/roastmystartup — Founders ready for candid criticism of their startup.
• r/saas — SaaS founders discussing product, pricing or growth with evidence.
• r/sales — B2B founders sharing a substantive sales lesson or relevant question.
• r/sideproject — Makers sharing a working side project and asking for feedback.
• r/socialpreneur — Social enterprise founders discussing measurable impact and business models.
• r/startup — Early stage founders seeking startup specific feedback.
• r/startup_ideas — Founders testing a specific business idea or customer problem.
• r/startup_resources — Makers of genuinely useful resources for startup founders.
• r/startups — Founders seeking advice; use only the designated feedback or promotion thread.
• r/streetwearstartup — Streetwear brand founders seeking feedback on their own designs.
• r/technology — Founders with technology news of wider interest; not a generic product ad.
• r/testmyapp — App makers requesting specific, actionable testing feedback.
• r/userexperience — Founders sharing a useful UX case study or research question.
• r/venturecapital — Fundraising founders discussing venture financing with a specific question.
• r/webdesign — Web tool and design makers seeking specific design feedback.
• Wellfound — Startups recruiting employees and building an employer brand.

Pitch an editor

These are pitches, not open submission forms. The skill looks up the current editorial contact and drafts the email. It does not send unless you tell it to. If the contact is not on the site, it says so. It does not invent an address.

• AddictiveTips — Software makers with a practical app, utility or productivity tip.
• Android Headlines — Android device and app makers with a relevant product announcement.
• Changelog — Open source maintainers and developer infrastructure makers.
• CNET — Consumer technology founders with a testable product and reader benefit.
• e27 — Southeast Asian founders with startup, investment or ecosystem news.
• Engadget — Consumer hardware, gadgets and technology products with a working demo.
• Entrepreneur — Founders with evidence backed lessons about building a business.
• Tech.eu — European technology startups announcing funding, launches or market change.
• Fast Company — Founders with a strong innovation, design or workplace story.
• Future Startup — Bangladeshi and South Asian founders with a business building story.
• Gizmodo — Consumer technology and science startups with newsworthy products.
• The Guardian — Technology — Startups whose work has a clear public interest technology angle.
• HackerNoon — Technical founders able to teach through an original article.
• Healthline — Health startups with credible clinical evidence and qualified experts.
• HuffPost — Founders with a human interest or wider social impact story.
• Inc. — Founders with concrete growth results, operating lessons or company milestones.
• Inc42 — Indian startup founders with a launch, funding or company milestone.
• InfoWorld — Enterprise software and developer platform teams with technical expertise.
• MacStories — Apple ecosystem app makers with a useful iOS or macOS product.
• Mashable — Consumer tech startups with a timely product or culture story.
• Mashable India — Consumer tech founders with a story relevant to Indian readers.
• MIT Technology Review — Deep tech founders with research, evidence and consequential technology.
• NextBigWhat — Indian tech founders with a product, market insight or founder lesson.
• PCWorld — PC software, hardware and utility makers with a working product.
• Postmake — Makers of useful tools for building and running a business.
• Psychology Today — Mental health founders with qualified expertise and sound evidence.
• SiliconANGLE — Enterprise AI, cloud, data and cybersecurity companies with real news.
• Slate — Founders with an original argument about technology, business or culture.
• Smashing Magazine — Web design and development founders with an original practical tutorial.
• Starter Story — Revenue generating founders willing to share actual business numbers.
• Startup Resources — Makers of tools and resources that solve a specific founder problem.
• Startup88 — Australian and New Zealand founders with startup news or lessons.
• StartupBeat — Early stage founders with a clear launch, milestone or founder story.
• The Tech Panda — Indian tech founders with a substantial startup story.
• TIME — Technology — Startups with technology that has significant wider social impact.
• Tech.co — Business technology makers with practical small business relevance.
• TechCrunch — Venture scale tech startups with a launch, funding round or original data.
• Techli — Regional US startups with a local ecosystem or founder story.
• The Register — Enterprise software, infrastructure, security and hardware startups.
• The Startup INC — Early stage founders with a startup profile or founder journey.
• The Startup Project — Founders with a distinct company or entrepreneurship story.
• The Verge — Consumer tech startups with a strong product and cultural news angle.
• The Wall Street Journal — Companies with material business news, financial evidence or an industry shift.
• Unboxing Startups — Founders with practical entrepreneurship lessons or company stories.
• UX Design Weekly — Design tool makers with a genuinely useful UX resource or case study.
• VentureBeat — AI, enterprise software and gaming startups with technical or market news.
• VentureVillage — European startup founders with regional technology or funding news.
• Web Tools Weekly — Developer tool makers offering libraries, APIs, editors or useful web tools.
• Webrazzi — Turkish and regional technology startups launching or raising funding.
• WIRED — Deep tech founders with a substantial technology and society story.
• WP Newsify — WordPress plugin, theme and service makers with a useful product story.
• YourStory — Indian and South Asian founders with a distinctive entrepreneurial story.

The skill

Paste this into SKILL.md, or tell your agent to follow it with this list. It submits the free directories and communities. For editors, it finds the current contact and drafts the pitch. It does not send the email unless you say so.

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name: startup-directory-submit
description: Submit a startup to the free directories and communities in this list. For Pitch an editor sites, find the current editorial contact and draft a pitch. Do not send email unless the user explicitly says to send it.
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# Startup directory submissions

Read the startup URL and this list. Ask once for anything you cannot see on the site: public founder name, the email they want on forms, logo rights, location, launch date. Do not invent claims.

Submitting is allowed only when they ask you to submit. Research or drafts stop there.

## Directories and communities

1. Open the site and confirm the route is still $0. A free account or a plan named Free is not enough.
2. Skip paid routes, card trials, and anything that requires a purchase.
3. Check for an existing listing before opening a new form.
4. For communities, read the rules. Post only where promotion is allowed. Otherwise skip.
5. Submit with the authorized facts. Do not take paid upgrades.
6. Save the confirmation. A submitted form is not a live backlink.

## Pitch an editor

Find the current editorial contact on that outlet. Draft one pitch for that site. Do not send it unless they explicitly say to send that email. If you cannot find a current contact, say it is missing.

## Do not

- Email, DM, or request reviews unless they explicitly tell you to send that message.
- Buy links, votes, or reviews.
- Bypass CAPTCHA, rate limits, or sign-in.
- Change their website, pay, or accept extra obligations without asking.

Keep a log with site, URL, status (skipped, prepared, submitted, pending, live), and the next step.