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Promote Project: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
Five upvotes on other startups buys the credits that unlock the form, and the listing that follows carries a link with no rel on it at all.
promoteproject.com
Eligibility
Who Promote Project accepts
You need
An account, by Google or by email and password
Five credits, earned one per vote on other people's startups
A live product URL
You'll be rejected if
Nothing is published as a content bar beyond their terms; the only real gate is the credit balance, and an account with none cannot reach the form at all
Indie projectsSaaS productsAI toolsMarketing toolsStartups
What you actually get
A permanent startup page on a directory of some 46,000 posts, carrying an outbound link with no rel attribute at all, so a plain dofollow. The listing shows the tagline, description, founded year, country and category, and appears immediately on submission.
How to submit to Promote Project
1
Sign in first
Google, or an email and password. Nothing about voting works while signed out.
2
Upvote five startups
The thumbs on /startups become clickable once you are signed in. Five of them buys the credits the form needs.
3
Fill the form
Home page, startup name, short and full description, services, tags, employees, founded year, stage, funding, country, category and a logo.
4
Submit
The listing appears at once and the page gives you a View your startup page link to it.
Promote Project requirements
An account
Five upvotes on other startups, to earn the credits the form needs
A live product URL
A logo image
A short and a full description
Gotchas
The submission form does not exist until the account holds five credits, and credits come only from upvoting other startups. Budget a few minutes of reading other people's launches before you can post your own.
The form asks for funding rounds, total funding and company stage. They are optional, but it is a startup-database shape rather than a product-directory one, so expect fields a solo maker has no answer to.
Let your agent submit to Promote Project
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Promote Project 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 4 Promote Project 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.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: publishing is free once you have five credits, and credits are earned by voting rather than bought. A separate Feature My Startup product is sold through Stripe for placement above the feed.
Types it into Promote Project 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 Promote Project?".
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Promote Project FAQ
How long does Promote Project approval take?
Promote Project's typical time from submission to going live is same day.
How much does it cost to submit to Promote Project?
Promote Project has a free submission option plus paid placement (Publishing is free once you have five credits, and credits are earned by voting rather than bought. A separate Feature My Startup product is sold through Stripe for placement above the feed.).
Does Promote Project give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Promote Project carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 49.
Does Promote Project require a backlink to your site?
No, Promote Project does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Promote Project?
Nothing is published as a content bar beyond their terms; the only real gate is the credit balance, and an account with none cannot reach the form at all.