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Share your product details
Product name, URL, one-line pitch, logo and categories. That is the whole setup.
Services
SaaS Directory Submission Service
Get your SaaS, startup or AI tool manually submitted to 30–100+ vetted platforms, selected from an independently maintained database of 348 directory opportunities. Every submission by hand, every listing reported with evidence.
348
Platforms tracked and verified monthly
147
Platforms at Domain Rating 50+
337
Platforms with dofollow links
158
Platforms with free listings
The service
Manual Directory Submission, Powered by a Verified Database
Every directory submission service in this category competes on the same claim: that it submits to more sites than the others. That number is unverifiable, trivially inflated, and worth nothing if half the destinations are abandoned link farms.
I compete on the database instead. It is published in full, carries live Domain Rating for every entry, records what each platform actually is, and gets re-checked monthly so dead venues leave rather than pad a total.
What you get
- Manual submission of your product to 30–100+ vetted listing platforms
- Selected from 348 tracked platforms, 147 of them at Domain Rating 50 or above
- 337 of 348 platforms publish a followed link — the rest are nofollowed and labelled as such
- An itemised proof report: platform, URL, type, DR, submission date and current status
- One-time pricing, no retainer
Process
How a Submission Run Works
Five steps. You provide the product details, approve the platform list, and receive the evidence. I handle the 40–70 hours of form-filling in between.
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I select and send you the list
The database is filtered to the platforms that genuinely fit your category. You get the proposed list with the Domain Rating and platform type for each one.
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You approve it
Cut anything you do not want to appear on. Nothing is submitted until you sign off.
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I submit by hand
Every submission is completed manually, in the format each platform expects, at a pace that does not trigger bot detection.
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You get the evidence
An itemised report: platform, URL, type, Domain Rating, submission date and current status. Pending and rejected are marked, not hidden.
From the database
Platform Categories We Track
These are not all directories, and they are not treated as such. Review marketplaces, launch platforms, communities, company databases, AI tool indexes and software indexes each have different submission formats, review processes and link behaviours.
Review Marketplaces
Buyer-intent listings ordered by verified reviews. Slowest to set up, closest to a purchase decision.
G2 (DR 91) · Capterra (DR 91) · GetApp (DR 85) · TrustRadius (DR 84)
Launch Platforms
Time-boxed events with a leaderboard. A launch is a day, not a page.
Product Hunt (DR 91) · Fazier (DR 82) · Beta List (DR 76) · Uneed Best (DR 75)
Communities
Posts and profiles, not form submissions. Account standing matters more than the listing.
Reddit (DR 95) · Hacker News (DR 91) · Indie Hackers (DR 81) · Dev.to (DR 91)
Company Databases
Records about the company rather than the product, built on funding, team and traction data.
Crunchbase (DR 91) · Wellfound (DR 87) · F6S (DR 83)
AI Tool Indexes
Task-based catalogues of AI products. The fastest-moving category, and the one with the most low-quality entrants.
There's An AI For That (DR 77) · Futurepedia (DR 72) · Toolify.ai (DR 72)
Software Indexes
Alternatives and comparison pages that rank against competitor brand names.
SourceForge (DR 93) · AlternativeTo (DR 79) · SaaSHub (DR 80) · StackShare (DR 79)
Fit
Who This Service Is For
Bootstrapped founders
No marketing budget or growth team. This is the highest-leverage discovery channel available — set-and-forget visibility while you keep shipping.
SaaS and software makers
Get your product in front of the audiences that evaluate and recommend tools, and earn the backlinks that move you up Google for your category.
AI tool builders
Submit to 100+ directories built specifically for AI products, where buyers and AI assistants both go looking for what to recommend.
SEO marketers
Running link building for any website, not just a startup. Many platforms in the database — G2, Capterra, Reddit, Medium — carry real authority for general business listings.
Honesty
What I Do Not Guarantee
Stating what the service does not do is not a disclaimer buried at the bottom. It is a position: if a claim cannot be kept, it should not be made.
Acceptance on every platform
Each venue makes its own editorial decision. You get the submission and the evidence, not a guaranteed listing.
A specific ranking or traffic number
Listings build authority and referral paths. What that translates to depends on your product and your pages.
Dofollow links everywhere
337 of 348 platforms publish a followed link. The rest are nofollowed, and I tell you which before submitting.
Permanence
Directories get sold, redesigned or abandoned. The database is re-checked monthly, but no one keeps a third-party page alive forever.
Why it works
What Directory Submission Actually Does for a SaaS Product
Before SEO can work and before word of mouth can spread, someone has to see your product. For a bootstrapped founder with no ad budget, directories are the most efficient discovery channel there is: communities of people actively looking for new tools.
Each listing does three things at once. It creates a backlink from a trusted, often high-DR domain — the kind of link that builds the authority Google needs before it ranks your pages. It puts you in front of an audience of founders, makers and early adopters who browse these platforms specifically to find new tools. And it helps AI assistants and search engines understand what your product is and who it is for, making you easier to surface and recommend.
Unlike an ad that stops when you stop paying, a directory listing keeps working. The backlink stays live, the referral traffic keeps trickling in, and AI assistants increasingly pull from these structured listings when they answer "what is the best tool for X?" That compounding is what makes this a strong early investment — one effort, months of return.
Need more than directories?
SaaS SEO Consulting
Directory submission builds the backlink foundation. If your product needs the full search programme — commercial page architecture, product-led content, AI visibility and reporting tied to signups — there is a dedicated consulting engagement for that.
Questions answered
SaaS Directory Submission FAQ
What is SaaS directory submission?
SaaS directory submission is the practice of listing your product on the platforms that catalogue software: review marketplaces, launch platforms, AI tool indexes and company databases. Each accepted listing creates a backlink from a trusted domain, puts you in front of that platform's audience, and gives search engines and AI assistants another independent description of what your product does.
How many platforms will you submit my product to?
Between 30 and 100+, chosen from the database of 348 tracked platforms. The count depends on your category, because relevance decides acceptance. An AI writing tool has far more genuinely relevant venues than a niche B2B compliance product, and padding the count with irrelevant submissions is how listings get rejected.
How do you choose which platforms to submit to?
I filter the database by relevance to your category first, then by Domain Rating, then by whether the platform is still actually maintained. 147 of the 348 tracked platforms sit at DR 50 or above, and 158 accept a free listing. You get the proposed list before anything is submitted.
Is this manual or automated?
Manual, every submission. The platforms worth being on — G2, Product Hunt, Capterra, Hacker News — review submissions by hand and are built to detect and reject bulk form-fills. Automated tools mostly reach low-authority sites that add little and carry real risk.
Does directory submission still help SEO?
It helps when the platforms are real editorial venues with an audience. Google's spam policies target links whose only purpose is manipulating rankings — that describes bulk submission to empty directories, not a listing on an established marketplace people genuinely browse. That is why the database has a DR floor and gets re-checked monthly rather than only growing.
Do you guarantee listings will be accepted?
No. Each platform makes its own editorial decision, and some have long queues or reject products outside their category. I guarantee the submission and the evidence of it, never the acceptance. Anyone promising guaranteed placement on platforms they do not own is describing something they cannot control.
What do I actually receive?
An itemised report of every platform you were submitted to, with the URL, submission date, platform type, Domain Rating and current status. Where a listing is live you get the link. Where it is pending or rejected, it says so.
Can I see the full database before buying?
Yes, all of it, free and with no signup. The full list of 348 tracked platforms is published at zplatform.ai/saas-directories/ with Domain Rating, listing cost, link type and a note on what each platform specialises in. You can work it yourself and never pay anything.
How long does it take?
Submissions are typically completed within a few working days. What happens after is outside anyone's control: some platforms publish within hours, review marketplaces can take weeks, and SEO effects from new links appear over the following weeks as search engines re-crawl.
Who runs this service?
Alston Antony, personally. I maintain the database, select the platforms and do the submissions. It is a named operator with 15+ years in SEO, not an anonymous agency queue.
Get Started
Send me your product URL and a one-line pitch. I will check the database, tell you how many relevant platforms fit your category, and quote a fixed price — no obligation.