A website that lists websites to submit your website to

https://www.submission.directory/

by azeemkafridi • 1 month ago

444 99 1 month ago

submission.directory

dvh• 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

xiaoyu2006• 1 month ago

...recursion?!

transitorykris2• 1 month ago

What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.

dofm2• 1 month ago

Was that creaking sound your knee or mine?

transitorykris2• 1 month ago

Hard to say, drkoop.com is a landing page now

moebrowne• 1 month ago

Kinda reminds me of DMoz.

dofm2• 1 month ago

itsbeen84years.gif

Dmoz! Those were the good days. :-)

jonjacky• 1 month ago

Curlie is the successor to DMOZ: https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html

But Curlie doesn't appear in the website linked in the parent post.

Barbing• 1 month ago

Now the search engines aren’t the challenge

Although it can still be a gamble whether a small site made it to DuckDuckGo (Bing’s crawler)

But that only affects about seven of us anyway so your point stands

Submit It

Trying to remember a different one…

rognjen• 1 month ago

And don't forget StumbleUpon...

wslh• 1 month ago

Speaking of StumbleUpon, I'm not sure whether this was just luck or something about its recommendation algorithm/social graph, but it was the only service where I didn't see the usual flood of traffic followed by rapid decay, the classic Slashdot/HN effect. The curve felt much smoother.

I remember some bloggers at the time describing the same thing [1].

I'd be curious if anyone knows more details.

[1] https://mark.blog/2007/10/23/the-stumbleupon-effect/

thenthenthen2• 1 month ago

Delicious!

hexajon• 1 month ago

Ha, a new/old webring. If you are reading this and know what that is, it's time for your prostate/mammogram check-up.

0xdeadbeefbabe2• 1 month ago

Haha or colonoscopy.

htx80nerd• 1 month ago

ya i cant believe im seeing this again

Retr0id• 1 month ago

earn quality backlinks

Well, at least its honest. For many (most?) of the listed sites, drive-by submitting a link just for the SEO juice would be considered rude.

hombre_fatal• 1 month ago

The directories have to assume everyone is doing it for personal benefit. That's one of their main hooks to gather submissions, and they have to deal with the spam of bad actors.

If your website is a good quality addition to the lists, just submit it. Your exact motivation isn't really relevant if the qualifier holds.

Imustaskforhelp2• 1 month ago

For anyone curious about what all the links are, here are all the 50 websites that the directory links to.

1. Medium : https://medium.com

2. Crunchbase : https://crunchbase.com

3. Hacker News : https://news.ycombinator.com

4. Product Hunt : https://producthunt.com

5. Reddit r/SideProject : https://reddit.com

6. Slashdot : https://slashdot.org

7. G2 : https://g2.com

8. Awwwards : https://awwwards.com

9. Capterra : https://capterra.com

10. Dev.to : https://dev.to

11. AlternativeTo : https://alternativeto.net

12. HackerNoon : https://hackernoon.com

13. GetApp : https://getapp.com

14. Software Advice : https://softwareadvice.com

15. Designer News : https://designernews.co

16. F6S : https://f6s.com

17. Indie Hackers : https://indiehackers.com

18. One Page Love : https://onepagelove.com

19. StackShare : https://stackshare.io

20. Hashnode : https://hashnode.com

21. There's An AI For That : https://theresanaiforthat.com

22. Land-book : https://land-book.com

23. BetaList : https://betalist.com

24. Futurepedia : https://futurepedia.io

25. Lobsters : https://lobste.rs

26. Peerlist : https://peerlist.io

27. Futuretools : https://futuretools.io

28. Startup Stash : https://startupstash.com

29. Toolify : https://toolify.ai

30. Httpster : https://httpster.net

31. SaaSHub : https://saashub.com

32. Sidebar : https://sidebar.io

33. Tekpon : https://tekpon.com

34. AllTopStartups : https://alltopstartups.com

35. SaaSworthy : https://saasworthy.com

36. SaaS Landing Page : https://saaslandingpage.com

37. Betapage : https://betapage.co

38. Launching Next : https://launchingnext.com

39. DevHunt : https://devhunt.org

40. Insidr AI : https://insidr.ai

41. SideProjectors : https://sideprojectors.com

42. Startup Fame : https://startupfa.me

43. StartupBase : https://startupbase.io

44. Uneed : https://uneed.best

45. SaaS AI Tools : https://saasaitools.com

46. AngelList : https://angel.co

47. GitHub Trending : https://github.com/trending

48. Dribbble : https://dribbble.com

49. Behance : https://behance.net

50. TechCrunch : https://techcrunch.com

GL26• 1 month ago

how can you make it so the blog of another company mentions your website so you get better SEO ?

Imustaskforhelp2• 1 month ago

I am not within the SEO world so I can't answer this question, sorry but I recommend asking it to other people or if other people can answer it.

My naive interpretation would be to build tools which other companies want to use but its a bit of chicken and egg problem and maybe these directories help in fixing the issue in the first place of this problem.

Also, with LLM's, I imagine that there are some websites which use AI for writing texts but the thing is that I'd much prefer my things to not be mentioned by them even if it increases the SEO because I'd prefer not my product if I build one when searched to be filled with slop results, and also, everyone is within the rush for gold mines and so we are forgetting writing for the sake of it but there are few people who write blogs for the sake of writing.

Perhaps I recommend looking at some blogging websites and asking them to test your website but this isn't company blog. I think that is a high bar to achieve but I wish you look in doing so and hope someone who's more experienced in SEO can answer it for ya.

econ• 1 month ago

Submit a well researched article that fits their blog perfectly and a link to your own blog full of excessive details at the end.

sparkling• 1 month ago

Post once, read never

theturtletalks• 1 month ago

If you’re building open-source, I have a directory you can also submit your product on:

opensource.builders

lebuin• 1 month ago

Does it list itself?

stackghost2• 1 month ago

Hmm, the top item on the page is Medium, and underneath the description begins with "High-authority publishing platform".

That is... not the popular assessment of Medium these days. At one point, Medium and the other minimalist one whose name I can't remember (edit: it was Svbtle) were seen as high-prestige and high-signal platforms.

Nowadays Medium is just AI slop and low-effort surface-level takes from people trying to build a personal brand.

holistio• 1 month ago

I'm building something that's not very far from how you describe (and how I also used to see) Medium.

What do you think could have prevented its downfall?

stackghost2• 1 month ago

The initial appeal of Medium and Svbtle, which was the other one I was thinking of, was that almost any time you saw an article from them it was usually high-quality. With their simplistic dark-on-light themes they looked visually distinct (especially Svbtle) from the popular blogging platforms at the time. There were no ads, no calls to action, no fucking modal "you need an account to keep reading" popups, etc. I seem to recall that Svbtle and Medium both began as invite-only, so the set of authors was highly curated.

Thus, the reading experience was fantastic.

As soon as they opened up to everyone, almost right away the quality dropped. All of a sudden Medium in particular was chock full of shallow "man page disguised as a blog post" posts and "tutorials" from people trying to build their own personal brands. It became a firehose of mediocrity.

Substack is currently experiencing the same cycle.

Ultimately I think, if you want to preserve the elite/luxury/exclusivity reputation, you need to impose artificial scarcity and resist the urge to "hyperscale" or whatever.

busymom0• 1 month ago

I hate how medium articles keep showing up at top of my search results. I googled a coding problem. First link was a medium tutorial. I click and mid way, it's asking me to sign up to read more. Ugh. I sign up and then it wants me to go through a few pages of topics I'd like to choose and what not. Then I finally end up at the tutorial I was trying to read and it's blocked behind a pay wall. Wtf.

dmoose• 1 month ago

Kagi search filters. I've had medium blocked since I first signed up. Occasionally I search from other peoples machines and realize how much crap on Medium I've just forgotten about. There are a lot of things to like about Kagi but the ease of removing junk sites from search results is near the top.

johnnyApplePRNG• 1 month ago

brings me back, man

I remember sitting there submitting my geocities website to every search engine and website that would accept it under the sun

good times

Igor_Wiwi• 1 month ago

boosting DR rating is the biggest psyop of indie hackers: it's temporal and has zero effect on anything. All my websites are 3 to 6 DR points. https://mdview.io has 5 DR and brings in 500 uniq users per day organically

andrelaszlo• 1 month ago

I'd really like a website that submits your website to websites that lists websites that lists websites to submit your website to.

RattlesnakeJake• 1 month ago

It could be a cousin to Wikipedia's List of Lists of Lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

thenthenthen2• 1 month ago

This is one of my all time fav pages. Not kidding

YoshiRulz• 1 month ago

Does that make this a list of lists of lists of lists? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957#sitelinks-wikipedia

paulddraper• 1 month ago

Post another to HN, and it’s a good start…

0xdeadbeefbabe2• 1 month ago

Sounds more fun than a recipe site.

13hours• 1 month ago

Yo Dawg...

deadbabe• 1 month ago

Since search engines are going to be replaced by AI, is there now potential for old school hand curated web directories like we had in the late 1900s to surface again?

Lists of websites hand curated by categories and topics, and even certified to have AI free content, could be cool.

inigyou4• 1 month ago

I think everyone should have, on their personal website, a list of links to other websites they like.

pwython• 1 month ago

Here's a much larger list (1,057 sites): https://pastes.io/rcPg2RLC

firefoxd• 1 month ago

While i appreciate that there are websites where you can list your website, compiling them in a publicly available list is a recipe for spam.

Rather than post links to your websites on these websites, you need to share your website with your community. Imagine never using HN and then posting a show HN. You'll probably quickly get your domain banned.

When you are part of a website community, it's much easier to understand what kind of things you should post, as opposed to just drive-by posting everywhere.

The audience for these listings are people trying to take shortcuts.

atraac• 1 month ago

Website catalogues exist for more than a decade. They were one of the first attempts at gaming SEO.

jermaustin1• 1 month ago

More than 3 decades. The original world wide web had them. Link "circles"[1] fell out of favor for SEO around 2015 or so, but before that, they had been a primary driver of Page Rank forever.

I worked in SEO from 2008 until 2015, and developed a lot of tools for increasing your PR from backlink indexing, to running a 15k domain blog network designed to build links to links to links to you, and my favorite: Click Faker - if you were ranked on Google already, on Page one or 2, it would search google find your site, click into it, navigate around, sit on some pages for a while before clicking an exit link or closing the browser - it was very powerful, but nearly impossible to scale, since it needed local residential IPs and I'm against botnets.

1. The circles actually couldn't close if you were looking for the ultimate page rank passthrough, they were actually a line, but still called circles.

faeyanpiraat2• 1 month ago

why would I get banned for showing my stuff?

inigyou4• 1 month ago

Because it's spam?

kube-system• 1 month ago

Imagine never using HN and then posting a show HN.

There's three green accounts on the front page of /show right now

fragmede• 1 month ago

How long does someone need to join the community before it's not a drive by? 3 hours? 3 days? 3 weeks? 3 months? 3 years?

enthdegree• 1 month ago

"X are Y but Z is real." Closed tab.

snowhy• 1 month ago

great, now i need a skill to do it on my behalf

namegulf• 1 month ago

At-least implement the submission form instead of redirecting to email the submission, lol!

NDlurker• 1 month ago

Let's just bring back web rings

klez• 1 month ago

Oh, there's plenty!

Off of the top of my web history

https://webring.theoldnet.com/

https://0uts1de.hisvirusness.com/

And of course a list of webrings

https://petrapixel.neocities.org/coding/webring-list

chamara2004• 1 month ago

I really like the website

joshmn• 1 month ago

Reminds me of HotScripts, which is still around for anyone looking for nostalgia: https://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/scripts-prog...

susam• 1 month ago

I have been maintaining my own metalist of directories where one can submit their indie/personal websites to. In alphabetical order, here is what it looks like right now:

https://blogroll.org/

https://blogs.hn/ (by @surprisetalk)

https://hnpwd.github.io/ (I am one of the maintainers)

https://iii.social/ (by @freshman_dev)

https://indieblog.page/ (by @splitbrain)

https://kagi.com/smallweb/ (by @freediver)

https://marginalia-search.com/ (by @marginalia_nu)

https://minifeed.net/ (by @freetonik)

https://susam.net/wander/ (I developed this)

https://text.blogosphere.app/ (by @ramkarthikk)

https://wiby.me/

A clarification: The Wander link above (which I developed) is not something where you list your website. It is a tool you host on your website to become part of a decentralised network of personal websites (much like in a webring, except that the network is shaped like a graph rather than a ring): https://susam.codeberg.page/wcn/. More details here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander

exhaze• 1 month ago

Nice! Just added your comment to my list of Perl script-inspired lists

lackoftactics• 1 month ago

oh, I appreciate this list even more than the one posted. It has so many less known websites that no llm gonna suggest

m_w_• 1 month ago

No one takes g2 and product hunt seriously right?

pembrook• 1 month ago

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but backlinks has never been less important for SEO than they are right now.

Google has slowly de-prioritized them as a ranking signal over time due to the constant abuse, the death of the blogosphere (the vast majority of websites are now corporate blogspam with few legitimate organic links), and the fact that every major social platform now de-ranks posts with external links in them (to keep people on-site).

And as far as I know the crawlers in LLMs don't use backlinks as a signal at all.

kbelder• 1 month ago

That will soon make these sorts of lists more useful, as their usefulness to spammers/seo optimizers diminishes.

marc5• 1 month ago

Fun story:

I built BetaList 16 years ago which was one of the first "product discovery" platforms. Years before Product Hunt, etc.

I manually reviewed every submission and unfortunately often I had to tell founders that their startup didn't qualify to be included. Almost everyone would (understandably!) argue their case, but as volume increased I couldn't afford to go into a deep argument with every single founder.

That's when I made https://submit.co a site similar to OP's. The idea being that instead of say "No, we will not feature your startup" I now gave them an alternative place to put their energy.

Initially it was mostly a list of tech blogs, but as more product discovery platforms popped up, I started adding them too. In a sense, I was promoting my competition but it was exactly the startups we couldn't list any way for one reason or another.

Eventually that list of "places to submit your startup" got so popular (and copied everywhere ) that it started driving traffic back to BetaList. (I included it at the very top of the list).

kilobaud• 1 month ago

Thanks for helping us launch LocalXpose however many years ago. I know it seems like product promotion is (rightfully) something to always be wary of, but I appreciate the forums you’ve provided startups hoping to find early adopters. We are (relatively speaking) successful nobodies, but I wonder if you have any memories of sites that “blew up” after being added on BetaList?

david_shi• 1 month ago

For the ones that don’t have a submit button, what have you found are the best ways to get featured?

I know some are pay to play but curious if there are other methods you’ve found effective.

marc5• 27 days ago

Generally you can just reach out via a contact form. I should link to those

jklinger410• 1 month ago

Hey thanks for letting me spam BetaList and get a startup I worked for some decent exposure!

marc5• 27 days ago

Haha you're welcome. Thanks for letting us share it with our audience :)

encodedrose• 1 month ago

often I had to tell founders that their startup didn't qualify to be included

Could you share why?

marc5• 27 days ago

For many years we explicitly denied any startup that was already launched.

This was back in the day where most startups had a long "pre-launch" phase where they would be collecting user feedback through private betas, etc before launching publicly.

I wanted BetaList to be focused on early-stage startups and to avoid a lot of debates about what is and isn't "early-stage" I decided on that clear policy.

We also denied startups for other reasons such as using an over-used homepage template (they never converted well for our audience as they'd see the same one multiple times a week) or simply having a dime-in-a-dozen product (which also didn't get many signups when featured on BetaList).

bitvvip• 1 month ago

Earlier than Product Hunt? That's amazing. It must have helped a lot of people. Developing a product really requires a platform for promotion

marc5• 27 days ago

Yeah PH launched a few years after us :)

dwoot• 1 month ago

Submission is broken or doesn't provide any user feedback on error. I've tapped submit 3x, but nothing changes. I have no confirmation that my submission had been received or whether there's an issue.

wenbin• 1 month ago

At listennotes.com , we have to delete tons of fake podcasts submitted to our site [1]

why do people create fake podcasts? they want to get backlinks from all podcast directories

podcasts are distributed via rss feed. and spammers/"growth hackers" put tons of links in the rss feed.

and podcast hosting services (especially those allow free trials, e.g., rss.com, ) could help them one-click to distribute to a bunch of podcast apps / websites. this is like one-click large scale spamming automation

any examples? here you go -

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=UU88%20

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89

* https://open.spotify.com/search/%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89/podcasts

most podcast websites / apps don't delete fake podcasts like we do at listennotes.com . so i guess the backlink hack w/ fake podcasts works. real human podcast listeners might suffer with spammy fake shows even on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

PaulHoule• 1 month ago

... in general directory sites died because they got taken over by spam.

doginasuit• 1 month ago

Please Log In to see this info. It is to prevent malicious computer programs from scraping this website.

It looks like you require an email address just to provide a link to the podcast you listed. I don't buy that it is necessary to prevent scrapers.

NKosmatos• 1 month ago

It should be called Ouroboros ;-)

Cider9986• 1 month ago

FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah) is my favorite website directory.

It has steadily grown far beyond just sharing free media and has everything from free AI and free education to free cooking websites.

It's probably a significant contributor to the recent return of piracy giving users constantly up to date and safe resources.

Website: https://fmhy.net

Github: https://github.com/fmhy

Julesman• 1 month ago

I demand a submission directory of submission directories!!! :)

johnwheeler• 1 month ago

Site logo is a bad UX idea.

kachnuv_ocasek• 1 month ago

Fun concept!

It's definitely missing siteinspire.com

thelonelyborg• 1 month ago

cool tool

vortegne• 1 month ago

Having Medium on top is a weird choice in 2026, I find. It's been years since Medium was anything but a spam platform, and with the age of LLM-generated writing the whole thing can be written off. I don't even click on any Medium links anymore, it's so rarely worth it.

twostorytower• 1 month ago

Very cool! FYI, DesignerNews is dead.

alfirous• 1 month ago

Very sad. I wish there's successor.

garganzol• 1 month ago

All those "submit your website" tricks attract posers. As a result, we have lots of noise with no associated value.

(And yes, you can surely downvote this message because it touches your tender ego)

klvino• 1 month ago

What is old is new again. Pre Search engines, this was one of the best ways to get around. Find site/link libraries and run a search in page against the link descriptions.

renegat0x0• 1 month ago

I have something similar, but as open database

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

Recently also created android app that can browse domains. It awaits fdroid approval.

https://github.com/rumca-js/OfflineWebSearch

pbjerkeseth• 1 month ago

Ive been surprised at how effective (for personal projects) this type of rote promotion by link sharing can be. It feels fruitless initially but i guess whatever-engine-optimization keeps paying to be consistent.

awesome-lists like you see on github seem to be missing, which would be a good inclusion. Although I think many of those curators are suffering a wave of slop right now so maybe not.

rateyourreads• 1 month ago

I built rateyourreads.com — a free community book ratings site (Goodreads alternative, 10k+ books). Just spent the evening trying to submit it across as many of these directories as I could. The CAPTCHA gauntlet on most of them is real. submission.directory is a great starting point!

_the_inflator• 1 month ago

Yahoo has its moment.

Maybe this is new to folks not being active in the internet during the 90th, but essentially search engines were partly simply link catalogs, curated mostly like Yahoo, CompuServe, AOL.

Excite, Lycos. Web rings were a thing, stumbledupon, delicious - nothing new here.

Even blog listings were a thing with technorati.

And remember Digg?

inigyou4• 1 month ago

StumbleUpon would be cool to have again today.

Digg relaunched and then reunlaunched.

Lord_Zero• 1 month ago

I have a new startup, it's been going pretty poorly. I think it serves a great market and could be useful if it could get in front of the right people. The problem with a lot of these sites is they won't allow you to shill and the ones that do require lengthy sign up processes or money. I tried to post to alternativeto but I had to wait 7 days! Because my account was too new. I considered AdWords but again I'd be paying hundreds or even thousands per month and I have no customers so it doesn't make sense to do that and idk if it would even result in any sign ups.

inigyou4• 1 month ago

Who are the right people?

shantnutiwari• 1 month ago

Medium and Cruchbase at top? No thanks

snthpy• 1 month ago

Next, please create a website that lists all websites that don't list themselves and let me know whether it lists itself or not. You'll probably need functional programming and category theory for this, or so I'm told.

Jotalea• 29 days ago

this is awesome. i can't wait for someone to make a website that lists websites with list of websites you can submit your websites to.

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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