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IndieShowcase: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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Free and instant if their badge is on your site, $7 if it is not, and the link out is ugc either way

indieshowcase.io
IndieShowcase homepage
Eligibility

Who IndieShowcase accepts

You need
A live URL
An account
A logo under 1MB
A cover image under 1MB
Their badge on your site, for the free lane
You'll be rejected if
Eleven categories, none of them consumer or games, so a product with no business shelf here has nowhere to sit.
Indie productsSaaS productsAI toolsDeveloper toolsStartups
What you actually get
A listing page of your own on a neo-brutalist indie directory, with the tagline, the description, key features, use cases, alternatives and a cover image, filed under one of eleven categories. The button through to your site carries rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" and a utm_source.

How to submit to IndieShowcase

  1. Sign in
    Google, on a Supabase-backed account.
  2. Fill one long screen
    URL, title, a 120-character tagline, a description, why startups need it, alternatives, key features and use cases one per line, pricing type, category, a logo and a cover image. A Cloudflare Turnstile sits at the bottom and passes itself.
  3. Pick a lane at the end
    Free is a badge on your site and instant publishing once their verifier sees it. Premium is $7 once and no badge. The two buttons are side by side under the form.

IndieShowcase requirements

Tagline
120 characters
Logo
1MB
Cover image
1MB
Badge
220x60, from /badge/featured-light.svg
Account
Google

Gotchas

The free lane needs the badge live before you press the button: their verifier fetches your page and publishes on the spot, so a badge that ships tomorrow means a submission that fails today.
The outbound link is rel="noopener noreferrer ugc", so this is an audience listing rather than a link. $7 does not change that.
Key features and use cases are one per line, not prose, and the tagline is capped at 120 characters.

Let your agent submit to IndieShowcase

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the IndieShowcase 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 6 IndieShowcase rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 5 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that IndieShowcase 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: free with their 220x60 badge on your site, published the moment their verifier reads it. $7 one time to skip the badge.
Types it into IndieShowcase 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 IndieShowcase?".
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IndieShowcase FAQ

How long does IndieShowcase approval take?
IndieShowcase's typical time from submission to going live is instant.
How much does it cost to submit to IndieShowcase?
IndieShowcase has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free with their 220x60 badge on your site, published the moment their verifier reads it. $7 one time to skip the badge.).
Does IndieShowcase give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from IndieShowcase are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 17.
Does IndieShowcase require a backlink to your site?
Yes, IndieShowcase expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from IndieShowcase?
Eleven categories, none of them consumer or games, so a product with no business shelf here has nowhere to sit.