SubmitMap

Hey everyone, maker here. SubmitMap started as my own launch spreadsheet. Every time I shipped a side project I re-researched the same question: where do I submit this, and in what order? So I turned the spreadsheet into a typed directory: every platform carries its eligibility rules, the exact form fields, the gotchas and the approval time. A phased route of guides puts it all in order, from launch-ready to your first hundred users. It also speaks MCP, so you can hand the whole thing to your AI agent and have it do the submitting in your browser. The directory, the guides and the checks are free and need no account. There's a paid plan for the dashboard and MCP if you want your projects and submissions tracked, and no platform pays for placement either way. I'd love to know which platform you'd add next.

This is a really useful idea because finding the right directories can be surprisingly time-consuming, especially when every platform has different eligibility rules and submission requirements. I like the focus on showing the actual approval process and whether a backlink is dofollow instead of simply providing a long list of directories. I'm currently working on https://dltaexecutorapk.com/ , so having a way to quickly identify which directories are suitable for a gaming/Android project would definitely be useful. The qualification checks and phased approach sound especially helpful for avoiding wasted submissions.

this looks like a very good idea for most start up founders like us

We're mid-way through a directory-submission push ourselves, so this is timely. The thing that's cost us the most hours is discovering a directory is paid-only after building the listing - if you flag free vs paid tiers per directory up front, that alone is worth it. Congrats on the launch!

This would've saved me a lot of trial and error. I've been manually working through directory submissions for a new site over the past few weeks — Uneed, SaaSHub, BetaList, Product Hunt — and the biggest time sink wasn't the forms themselves, it was figuring out upfront which ones actually have a free tier vs. which paywall the "real" listing behind a $50-300 upgrade. Having that dofollow/approval-time/paid-vs-free info typed out per platform before I start would've cut a lot of wasted clicks. Does the MCP integration handle the "this platform requires 30-day account age" type gates too, or just the form-filling itself?

This is useful because the hard part with directory submissions is usually not finding directories, but knowing which ones are still active, worth the effort, and what each one actually requires. I’d be curious how often the directory data is refreshed and whether you track approval rates over time.

The friction you're addressing is usually invisible because makers just accept it as part of launch. The real cost is not the form filling - it's the research: finding which directories exist, figuring out if you even qualify, then discovering mid-form that they don't accept your category. By organizing this upfront (eligibility + form fields + approval time), you remove the false-starts that kill momentum. The MCP integration is the smart part here - instead of manually copy-pasting between your app and a web form, an agent does the whole thing. The phased route makes sense too since not all directories are created equal. A backlink from a directory with 50 DAQ authority is different from a 2M site, so knowing this before you submit matters. If the data actually stays current (directories change their requirements constantly), this becomes the one place makers check before launch week instead of a random spreadsheet.

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This sounds like a pretty cool concept I think I will enjoy using it

This is basically solving the exact problem I've been hand-doing across a dozen directory submissions the past few weeks — figuring out per-site eligibility, form fields, and whether a backlink is even dofollow before investing the time. The "approval time + dofollow" flag per platform is the detail that would've saved me the most guesswork. Would genuinely use this the next time I'm sequencing a launch campaign

This is useful because the hard part with directory submissions is usually not finding directories, but knowing which ones are still active, worth the effort, and what each one actually requires. I’d be curious how often the directory data is refreshed and whether you track approval rates over time.

Interesting approach, tried an mcp connector with my Codex app, the whole process is a bit confusing. And still needs manual intervention (at least to upload resources, obviously). Could b communicated better.

The dofollow field is the one I wish I had two days ago. I have been submitting a tool across a dozen directories this week, and the thing that cost the most time is written nowhere: most verifiers fetch only the homepage you submit, they do not follow internal links. I built a proper partners page with every badge on it, and six listings sat unpublished because the crawler never saw it. I had to move a plain text link into the footer before anything passed. If you encode that per platform, badge on the homepage versus anywhere on the domain, and what the verifier actually fetches, that alone would justify the map.

The dofollow flag and expected approval time per platform are the two fields most launch lists leave out, and they are exactly what decides whether a form is worth filling.

Congrats on the launch. Loving that each platform tells you what disqualifies you before you open the form. If you want discounted rates on model usage, pzero.studio is there.

The idea of helping founders identify the right platforms for product submissions is really useful. I especially like the eligibility checks and launch guidance, which can save a lot of research time. Adding filters by industry or product type could make the platform even easier to use.

Congrats on shipping SubmitMap — this is exactly the kind of thing I wish I’d had earlier. Turning a messy “where do I submit next?” spreadsheet into a typed directory with eligibility rules, form gotchas, and expected approval times is hugely useful. The guided launch → first-100-users path plus MCP so an agent can help in-browser is a really smart combo. Love that the core directory/guides stay free too. I’m currently launching Trilo3D (image → textured 3D online, GLB/FBX/OBJ/USDZ/STL): https://trilo3d.com — tools like yours make the directory grind way less painful.

The MCP-agent piece is what caught my attention. I've been running my own directory submissions through Claude Code this week (Uneed, StartupBase, Fazier), and the actual blocker every time wasn't the copywriting, it was not knowing upfront which platforms had closed their free queue, which needed a comment-gate before you could even see the form, or which had a paid-only path disguised as a free one. Found all of that out the hard way, one platform at a time. Having that eligibility and disqualifier data typed per-platform before you start would've saved a real afternoon. And handing the actual form-filling to an agent once you know what you qualify for is the natural next step, most of the manual part isn't the writing, it's the tab-switching and re-reading each platform's fine print. Following this, curious how deep the eligibility rules go, do you flag things like required minimum traffic or team size, or just acceptance criteria on product type?

Using SubmitMap to plan Cookpress's directory launch right now. The part that actually saved me time is the per-platform disqualifier and backlink notes — most directory lists don't tell you which forms are dead or what they'll reject before you fill them. Would love to see approval-rate tracking over time, that's the one signal nobody publishes.

I really love the estetic