Startup directory with a funding and acquisition angle, where the free lane costs a permanent affiliate badge.
bowora.com
Eligibility
Who Bowora accepts
You need
An account (Google or Apple sign-in, or email and password)
A bowora.com link or badge on your homepage for the free lane
A square logo and a 1.91:1 thumbnail
Founder name, bio and avatar shown publicly on the listing
You'll be rejected if
Anything without a reachable public website
StartupsSaaS productsAI toolsDeveloper toolsIndie projects
What you actually get
A profile page at bowora.com/your-domain inside a directory of roughly 1,600 startups, with a weekly star board, a founder card and a nofollow outbound link. The readership is other founders plus the buyers and investors the site courts, so treat it as an audience placement rather than a link.
How to submit to Bowora
1
Sign in, then start from the dashboard
Every "List your startup" control points at /dashboard/startups?new=true, which bounces to /login. Google and Apple SSO both create the account on the spot.
2
Hand over your URL and let it scrape
A one-field modal takes the domain and pre-fills the whole listing from your site, including a tagline it writes itself. Everything after this is correction, not entry.
3
Fix the details step
Name, 55-char tagline, description, one category and a country, plus a square logo and a 1.91:1 thumbnail. Optional toggles for demo video, app stores and socials.
4
Signal, perk and affiliate
Founding year, team size, investment stage, and whether you are Growing, Open to offers or Fundraising. The perk and affiliate steps are optional and skippable.
5
Founder card and first comment
The founder profile is prefilled from your sign-in account and is printed under the listing as a person. The first comment renders as a review on your own page.
6
Pick a lane in the final modal
Review the launch card, then choose: pay $1 (or $5 featured), or take the free lane by hosting their badge and clicking Verify link. Until one of those, the listing sits in Draft.
Bowora requirements
Account sign-in (Google, Apple or email and password)
Square logo, PNG or JPG
Thumbnail at 1.91:1, recommended 1200x628
Tagline of 55 characters or fewer
Founder first name, bio and avatar
A bowora.com link or badge live on your site before verifying (free lane)
Gotchas
The last screen opens with the $1 paid option already selected and the free badge lane parked in a separate panel beside it, so the obvious button charges you.
The badge they hand you links to bowora.com with a referral code attached, so the free listing is paid for by hosting their affiliate link forever.
Their own structured data sells a "DR28 dofollow backlink", but every listing I opened, free and Featured alike, carries rel="nofollow"; the dofollow is the separate $5/yr Verified tier.
The URL scrape writes your listing for you and gets it wrong quietly: it lowercased our brand name and truncated an invented tagline mid-word at the 55-char cap.
Let your agent submit to Bowora
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Bowora playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.
What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 5 Bowora rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 6 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Bowora looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: $1 to publish without a badge, $5 to sit on the homepage for a week, $5/yr Verified for the dofollow.
Types it into Bowora in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Bowora?".
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Bowora FAQ
How long does Bowora approval take?
Bowora's typical time from submission to going live is instant.
How much does it cost to submit to Bowora?
Bowora has a free submission option plus paid placement ($1 to publish without a badge, $5 to sit on the homepage for a week, $5/yr Verified for the dofollow).
Does Bowora give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Bowora are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 48.
Does Bowora require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Bowora expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Bowora?
Anything without a reachable public website.