How we check each listing
For each site, we look for its official submission page, pricing, and rules, and use the ones that load. When we can open a published listing, we check the link it gives the maker's site. Some sites blocked us, needed a login, or had no listing we could open. Those details stay marked Couldn't verify or Not stated on their site. We don't guess them.
Open a card to see its full details and each page we used. A source shows its own check date when we have one. The record date is the last time we checked anything on that place, so some sources can be older.
Cost on a card shows the lowest price we found. "From" means higher plans exist, and "once" means a one-time fee. Open a card to see every price. When a site doesn't publish a price, the card says Not stated. When we couldn't check it, the card says Couldn't verify.
Prices, review times, and link rules change. Check the site's own page before you pay.
What does a free option require?
A free plan may still require a backlink, domain verification, or community participation. Cards show the requirements we checked. The free-without-required-backlink filter excludes unchecked requirements. It covers the checked plan or submission flow, not every plan.
How long until a launch?
Approval and a scheduled launch are different steps. Where we checked both, the details list review time and the launch queue separately. A date assigned to stack127 describes our submission. It is not a promise for yours.
Public rules and our own submission results have separate labels and dates in the details.
How is the recommended order chosen?
A few long-running launch sites come first: Product Hunt, BetaList, DevHunt, Peerlist Launchpad, AlternativeTo, and SaaSHub. After those, places with a working submission page come before places without one. Launch boards and beta sites come before broader listings, and niche directories come last. Within each group, a free option comes first, then a dofollow link.
The order doesn't mean one site will bring you more traffic than another. Use the category filter to see the places that fit your product.
What do the link types mean?
| Label | What it means |
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| Dofollow | The sampled link had no nofollow, ugc, or sponsored value, or the site's terms promise that. There's no dofollow HTML attribute, and it doesn't promise indexing, ranking, or traffic. |
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| Nofollow | The link asks search engines not to follow it. It doesn't stop them finding your site through other links. See Google's definition. |
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| UGC | The link is marked as user-generated content. |
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| Sponsored | The link is marked as paid. |
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| Mixed | The sampled link carried more than one value, such as ugc and nofollow together. The details name them. |
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| Varies | Free, paid, or top-ranked listings get different links. The details say which. |
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| No link | The sampled listing doesn't link to the maker's own site. |
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A link result only covers the named sample listing, or the plan the site's terms describe. Free and paid listings can differ.
Two labels mean we have no confirmed link result:
| Label | What it means |
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| Likely nofollow | An estimate, not a checked result. We couldn't read a sampled link, but other evidence points to nofollow. Treat it as unconfirmed. |
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| Couldn't verify | We couldn't open a published listing or read its link. The link type is unknown. |
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What do the missing-detail labels mean?
| Label | What it means |
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| Not stated on their site | The site's own pages don't publish this detail. |
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| Couldn't verify | A page was blocked, needed a login, or didn't load. It doesn't mean the site has closed. |
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| Conflicting info | Two of the site's own pages disagree. The sources in the details link both. |
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| Submission page unavailable | We found a submission page, but it didn't load when we checked. |
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| Submission page not found | We couldn't find where submissions start. Check the site itself before you give up on it. |
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Found something wrong?
Email stack127@proton.me with the site name and the page that shows the right answer. Each place's details also have a correction link.
