A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

> 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.

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

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

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.

Let's just bring back web rings

Yo Dawg...

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

It should be called Ouroboros ;-)

Post once, read never

Site logo is a bad UX idea.

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

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

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

opensource.builders

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

Does it list itself?

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

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.

I really like the website

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.

No one takes g2 and product hunt seriously right?

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.

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

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

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