200 places to get your startup featured for free 🔗

by BCW

Hi All,

While marketing my personal finance startup, I compiled this spreadsheet of showcase websites where you can list your startup for free and get exposure & backlinks. Predominantly for SaaS but most could work for other startups too.

I added in a little CRM style tracker, so you can manage your progress posting on each one - it can get a little time consuming to keep count otherwise.

Simply click the link and it will allow you to create your own template of my spreadsheet.

Enjoy!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V5jNvy5fSALVcd14IeS6VfkguVCIgJpc_ljCloFQj-0/template/preview

BCW

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Super helpful list. Is there also a way to rank prioritize these site in order of meaningfulness to the startup at question?

nilskoppelmann

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  Most of them are sector agnostic, I did have a ranking based on domain authority but didn't end up including it here
  
  bw931
  
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    Yeah this would be super helpful so we could focus on highest ROI esp with SEO.
    
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Thanks, I'll make sure to spam and get banned on all of them :D

ivan_masliuk

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  If you don't get banned sometimes, you're not posting enough haha
  
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200 places but only 10 that really deserve your attention I would say

haserk

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  But which 10?
  
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    I'd think the ones that are closer to the niche your business is trying to fill.
    
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  Maybe not even 10! We've spent hours making our profiles in such directories, and it never brought us any customers.
  
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    Thats what I'm saying, man, you're right
    
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This is exactly what I was looking for!
Am I correct to assume that for some of them (e.g. VentureBeat) there is no way to submit your startup, but you have to contact the reporter?

emanuer

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  That's right. A few need manually contacting which is annoying, but all have been tested so shouldn't have too much difficulty
  
  bw931
  
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    Unfortunate, I thought maybe there is a hack. Thanks for the reply!
    
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Thank you for sharing!

akhilesh_m

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Man this is a well put list. Can only imagine how long it took you to put it together! Appreciate it ✌️

Saadoon

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  Pleasure, enjoy!
  
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Awesome, thank for sharing!

fstanev

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Thank you!
Was struggling to find a list of places where (like Medium) you could post an artcile about your product to receive the first feedback finally. Especially, if paid performance isn't the best scalable way for you -_-

Trueslash

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cool

BlueLobster

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Thank you for sharing such amazing SaaS directory sites. we will definitely share our tool Churnfree here which is helping the Startup business to reduce their customer churn rate and increase their MRR.

Churnfree1

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Thank you for sharing, must have list for the startup owners.

tusharsharma

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Amazing

bipin

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Thank you for sharing.

offic24by7

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Great piece of article! Very helpful. Thank You

dustinmiller58

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Thanks for sharing :D

Abhi007

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Can also add https://futurepedia.io to the list :)
3M+ monthly pageviews, completely free to list your AI product

questionreality

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  Hey, how are you going to monetize it?
  
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How much would you pay to get listed on all of these sites? Two bucks each, $400 total? This would be such an awesome gig for a hungry 20 year old
- do something useful right away
- it's not rocket science
- it is shitty manual toil work that they would long to automate
- witness other people's startup ideas
tomfromreallife

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  Completely agree! If there are any reading, now's your chance
  
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Woww, I needed this list, Thank you

pokakrisztian

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Epic list and spreadsheet! Extremely impressive and super helpful.

Liveandsigned

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  Thanks!
  
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Very useful. Thanks for putting this together!

Curious_Creations

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Really appreciate this, thanks :)

brd6

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Useful piece of content specially for SaaS!

HackerIndie2023

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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

Raulonastool

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Thank you for sharing, a great list

moran_guidde

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Wow Thanks!
I could just tell you how to build a SaaS in 200 different ways, as a Developer.
But struggling how to promote it.

How/What is your experiences with those places?

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  I've posted on most of these successfully, some multiple times. They're a good first place to start building your backlinks and some signups. Will have limited utility to those further along though
  
  bw931
  
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    Ok, thanks.
    
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Thanks for sharing. Its really helpful.

dv18

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Thanks for sharing this, really

ihespresso

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is there a service that can list in a majority of these places?

gmsniperx

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  Check this out https://www.listhour.com/
  
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Thanks, Wanted something like this

arpitgoyal

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Hey, maybe you could also add websites aitoolslist.io and bestbusinesssoftware.io. Both of these are free places to promote your tools :)

vilvas

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thank you!
ill give it a try as i am working currently on a startup idea and POC

ghkth0987

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Thank you for sharing! Super useful. How would you rank the list in terms of ease vs. effort of promotion?

mlexu

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Thank you man for sharing the SaaS directory where we can list our product.

Benfrederick

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Thank you for putting together this comprehensive list! Will go for a deep dive to discover the ones that are most suitable for promoting a new newsletter.

battlestations

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Thanks for the great list. This will definitely help the product like BoldDesk entered the crowded market help desk software domain.

Velu26

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In Sense - Your Artificial Memory we started with something like the same number of startup catalogues, but in fact, only a few of them brought good traffic.

MakeSense

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This is a great resource for IH!

Jun_

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Great list

Not all will
Get you traction but it’s worth it

albadawee

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If anyone is looking to talk about their startups to grow small with quality, this call is made for you

https://vibehut.io/rooms/6304c25f8ac27200164bd65f

1dolinski

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Thank you so much for sharing this!

alex1759

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Thanks for sharing! However, since AI is so hot now, I'd be looking more at AI tool directories. Maybe you should create a list about that.

Excited to feature Evoke on all those websites

RichardGao

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Thanks

WinnieZhan

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A good list
But what the IH community needs are outstanding pages, how is the experience there? What should and shouldn't?
200 pages may or may not be appropriate and does not really build trust.
Invest more in your writing.

AlexDinh_Fordeer

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Useful for our SAAS product "https://yoursafehub.com/"

YourSafeHub

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My free newsletter is also offering promotions for free! You can see my post about it: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/get-featured-in-our-smarter-startup-spotlight-for-free-630a9bf3c9

Here's an example of one we did for a SaaS: https://www.sodaroad.com/p/ai-keeps-cops-in-check-forecasts-global-warming-and-a-smarter-startup

thesaasguy

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Wow this exactly what I was looking for my start-up https://getstacksapp.com , thank you!

Stacks

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https://office24by7.com/sales/sales-automation-tool

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