Submit your startup to directories from Claude and Cursor.
LaunchDistro is an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other AI apps: it picks the directories that take your product, guides your agent through each form in your own browser, and checks that every backlink actually went live. You click only where it's your turn.
I'm filling the forms in your own Chrome so you can watch. SaaSHub is live for launchon.it with a dofollow link. Dofollow Tools has a CAPTCHA for you in the open tab; I'll carry on as soon as it's done.
- Filled name, tagline, description and categories from your Launch Kit.
- You pressed submit; the confirmation page is recorded.
- Checked the public listing: your link is there, dofollow. Marked live.
- Filled the form.
- Waiting: a CAPTCHA for you in the open tab.
- Next, once you are through the CAPTCHA.
- Queued. Its link is nofollow; it is on the plan for the audience.
- Queued. Nofollow too, same reason.
Nobody is searching your domain yet. Get listed where buyers and AI tools look.
Nobody types a new product's URL into Google yet. Early users browse startup directories and SaaS directories, and AI search tools read them when they recommend software. A listing puts you in both places, and the link keeps working for your SEO after launch week.
Set up once. Run it. Check the link.
Describe your product once
Fill in your Launch Kit in the dashboard, or ask Claude to write it from your README. Every submission uses the latest version, so you never type your tagline into a form again.
Your agent fills the form
Your agent opens the directory in your own browser and fills the form from the directory's playbook and your Launch Kit. When it's your turn (a sign-in, a CAPTCHA, a consent box) it stops and asks. It never pays for you.
Count only live links
A “thanks for submitting” message isn't a backlink. LaunchDistro opens your public listing, finds the real <a href>, and reads its rel. Only then is it marked live.
It tells you when you're
about to overdo it.
Ask for 100 backlinks this week and it will talk you down: a new domain that gains 100 links in seven days looks bought. It picks directories that fit your product, fills each form from your Launch Kit, hands you the sign-ins and CAPTCHAs, and counts a link only once it has read it on the live page.
First 5 directories
Directories with DR 60 or higher that take a product like yours, verified dofollow first. More can follow over the next few weeks, once these are live.
| Directory | DRAuthority | Status | Proof |
|---|---|---|---|
SaaSHub | DR 72 | Live | Link checked |
Dofollow Tools | DR 73 | Needs you | CAPTCHA |
Uneed | DR 76 | Queued | Playbook ready |
Gust | DR 75 | Queued | Playbook ready |
Future Tools | DR 63 | Queued | Playbook ready |
Found <a href="https://launchon.it"> on the public page. No nofollow, ugc or sponsored in rel. Marked live.
I want 100 backlinks for launchon.it this week.
That many in a week looks bought to Google. I'd start with the 5 dofollow directories that fit your product, then add more over the next few weeks. Want me to plan the first 5?
Ok, go.
Dofollow Tools has a CAPTCHA for you. It's open in your browser; tell me when it's done and I'll carry on.
Write about...
Picks directories that fit
Filters the catalog by authority, link type and category, so a video tool doesn't end up on a dev-tools list.
Fills forms in a real browser
Your own browser, where you are already signed in. It stops at every sign-in, CAPTCHA and payment and hands it to you.
Checks before it counts
Opens the live page, finds your <a href>, reads its rel for nofollow, and checks again every week.
LaunchOn.it went from DR 0
to 27 in 14 days.
I launched LaunchOn.it on September 12, on a brand-new domain with a Domain Rating of 0. Then I did the part every launch guide skips: I submitted it by hand to directories and launch platforms, one form at a time. Where a free listing asked for a badge, the badge went in my footer.
14 days later Ahrefs puts it at DR 27. Part of that is a head start your product may not get: LaunchOn.it is a launch platform itself, and makers who list there add its badge to get a dofollow link instead of a nofollow one.
The directory half is the half anyone can repeat, and it's the tedious half: which ones take your product, which want a badge, which charge at step two, which link is really dofollow. That's what LaunchDistro works out for you now, while your agent fills the forms in your own browser.
Picked for your product
Only directories that take what you built, each with the reason it's on the list.
Stops for you
Sign-ins, CAPTCHAs and payments are always yours.
Verified, not reported
A link counts only after it's found on the live page.
Ahrefs DRAhrefs Domain RatingWhere would your product fit?
Add your product and see which directories take it, which want a badge, and which are one step away.
See which directories take itAn agency, a vision bot, or LaunchDistro.
Agencies charge about €175 to €439 and send a spreadsheet two weeks later. Vision bots read screenshots to guess where the tagline goes. LaunchDistro is a directory submission tool you run yourself: your agent fills the form from the directory's playbook in your own browser, and we check the page it landed on.
| Compared on | Manual Agency | AI Vision Bot | LaunchDistroRecommended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | About €175 to €439 per batch | Pay per token, per page | Free for 10, €29 per launch, or Pro €39/mo |
| How the form gets filled | Someone copy-pastes | The model guesses from screenshots | Your agent, guided by the directory’s playbook |
| CAPTCHAs and sign-ins | Out of your sight | Often gets stuck | Stops and hands them to you |
| Proof | A spreadsheet of URLs | “Done” in the chat | A live link check, and its rel read |
| Directories | Their list | Whatever it finds | 300+ with a playbook, more every week |
| Your accounts | Their logins, or yours shared | Yours | Yours, in your own browser |
300+ startup directories with a playbook, and more added every week.
Here are a few you'll know. The full list, with each one's playbook and what its free listing gives, comes with a Launch or Pro; 10 submissions are free.
- DA 91
Crunchbase
crunchbase.com
- DR 86
Devpost
devpost.com
- DR 81
Indie Hackers
indiehackers.com
- DR 76
Uneed
uneed.best
- DR 75
Gust
gust.com
- DR 72
SaaSHub
saashub.com
- DR 65
PitchWall
pitchwall.co
- DR 63
Future Tools
futuretools.io
Don't buy LaunchDistro if…
It does one job: the copy-paste part of launch week. Better you know before you pay.
Your product isn't live yet
Directories want a working URL, a logo and real pricing. Figma screens and a private repo won't get through review. Build first, launch second.
You need customers next week
Listings get you indexed and give you your first real backlinks. They won't make a product people don't want go viral.
You want a link farm
We only submit to real directories with people reviewing the entries. No PBNs, no comment spam, no bought links.
“Youdidn'tlearnDocker,Next.js,andSupabasejusttospendyourFridaynightcopy-pastingyourlogoURLintoaformfrom2011.”
Frequently asked questions
Mostly they bring indexing and a baseline of referring domains from real, established sites, plus a trickle of curious visitors from the bigger launchpads. That is worth having early. It is not a growth channel, and we will not tell you it is.