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SideProjectors: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A marketplace for selling, buying and showing off side projects, where a Showcase listing is free and the memberships ration your outreach.
sideprojectors.com
Eligibility
Who SideProjectors accepts
You need
An account: Google, GitHub, GitLab, Product Hunt, LinkedIn, or email and password
A listing intent, chosen first: sell, co-founder, showcase or sold
A project with a name, description and category
You'll be rejected if
Nothing structural on the showcase intent; the sell intent expects something a buyer could actually take over
Indie productsSaaS productsWeb appsMobile appsBrowser extensionsMarketplace listings
What you actually get
A project page in a marketplace with four listing intents: for sale, seeking a co-founder, showcase, or sold. The Showcase intent is what makes this usable as a directory rather than only as an exit venue, and the same page serves both. Categories are SaaS, Shop, Blog, Website, Mobile, Desktop, Browser and Domain.
How to submit to SideProjectors
1
Choose an intent
/submit/type is the first step and it decides everything downstream: sell, find a co-founder, showcase, or record a sale.
2
Sign in
Five providers as a row of icon buttons (Google, GitHub, GitLab, Product Hunt and LinkedIn) plus email and password.
3
Fill the project
Name, description, category from eight, and images. A sale listing also carries a price.
4
Publish
Project pages live at /project/<id>/<slug>, so the id is assigned rather than derived from the name.
SideProjectors requirements
An account (five social providers or email and password)
A listing intent: sell, co-founder, showcase or sold
Project name, description and one of eight categories
Images and a price, the latter only on a sale listingoptional
Gotchas
The first thing the flow asks is what kind of listing this is, and the answer changes what the page becomes. Picking Sell puts a for-sale badge on a product you are not selling.
The membership tiers ration outreach rather than visibility: even the free tier can list, but it can only contact three project owners and send two direct messages a day, which matters if you are buying rather than listing.
The free tier is ad-supported, and the ads are large: a full-width sponsor panel covers the lower half of the sign-in page.
Let your agent submit to SideProjectors
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the SideProjectors 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 SideProjectors rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 4 fields this form asks for, 1 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: listing is free and the membership is about using the marketplace, not about being in it: Free is ad-supported with three owner contacts and two DMs a day, Starter is $3 a month and removes ads, Scaler is $6 with saved searches and collections, Unicorn is $9 with project analytics. All monthly.
Types it into SideProjectors 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 SideProjectors?".
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SideProjectors FAQ
How long does SideProjectors approval take?
SideProjectors does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to SideProjectors?
SideProjectors has a free submission option plus paid placement (Listing is free and the membership is about using the marketplace, not about being in it: Free is ad-supported with three owner contacts and two DMs a day, Starter is $3 a month and removes ads, Scaler is $6 with saved searches and collections, Unicorn is $9 with project analytics. All monthly.).
Does SideProjectors give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on SideProjectors carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 70.
Does SideProjectors require a backlink to your site?
No, SideProjectors does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from SideProjectors?
Nothing structural on the showcase intent; the sell intent expects something a buyer could actually take over.