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Smol Maker: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

Visit

Hang their badge and the nofollow comes off, which you can check from outside

smolmaker.com
Smol Maker homepage
Eligibility

Who Smol Maker accepts

You need
A live URL
An account
A square logo under 1MB
A 16:9 product image
Their badge on your site, for the free lane
You'll be rejected if
The premise is small products by independent makers, so an enterprise tool with a sales-call funnel does not read as one of these.
Indie productsSaaS productsAI toolsDeveloper toolsMarketing tools
What you actually get
A project page with upvotes and comments, launched at 08:00 UTC on the date you pick. The link out is the thing worth watching and it is visible without an account: an unverified listing links out with rel="noopener nofollow" and a ?ref=shipthing parameter, a verified one with plain rel="noopener" and a clean URL.

How to submit to Smol Maker

  1. Sign in
    Google, GitHub, or email and password.
  2. Project Info
    Name, website, an optional affiliate URL, a rich-text short description, a square logo under 1MB and a 16:9 product image. Both images are required.
  3. Details
    Up to three categories from a long searchable list, exactly five technologies as tags, platforms, a pricing model, and optional GitHub and X links.
  4. Launch Date and the badge
    Pick the free lane, paste their badge on your site, tick the box and press Verify Backlink. Next stays disabled until that check passes.

Smol Maker requirements

A live URL
Account
Google, GitHub, or email and password
Logo
Square, 256x256 recommended, hard 1MB limit
Product image
16:9, around 800x450
Badge
Their 150x44 SVG, verified before you can submit
Five technologies, and one to three categories

Gotchas

The free lane's dofollow is the badge, and you can audit it before committing: pull any project page and read the rel on the Visit button. Unverified listings get nofollow and a ?ref=shipthing parameter.
You cannot finish the free submission without deploying the badge first. The Next button on the last step stays disabled until their check finds it, and leaving the page loses the form.
The daily feed was empty on both today and yesterday when this was walked, so the launch-day traffic is not what the countdown implies. The archive pages are where the upvotes actually are.
Exactly five technologies, and the tag field takes them one Enter at a time. Pasting a comma-separated list puts the whole string in one tag.
The same operator runs several of these directories and sells packs of ten to twenty backlinks across the network. That is what the DR Booster is, and it is worth knowing what neighbourhood the link sits in.

Let your agent submit to Smol Maker

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Smol Maker 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 Smol Maker 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 Smol Maker 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 launch costs a badge on your site and a wait of up to thirty days. Premium is $9.9 a launch to skip the queue, Premium Plus $12.9, and an SEO article is $49.
Types it into Smol Maker 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 Smol Maker?".
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Smol Maker FAQ

How long does Smol Maker approval take?
Smol Maker's typical time from submission to going live is 2-4 weeks.
How much does it cost to submit to Smol Maker?
Smol Maker has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free launch costs a badge on your site and a wait of up to thirty days. Premium is $9.9 a launch to skip the queue, Premium Plus $12.9, and an SEO article is $49.).
Does Smol Maker give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Smol Maker carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 15.
Does Smol Maker require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Smol Maker expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Smol Maker?
The premise is small products by independent makers, so an enterprise tool with a sales-call funnel does not read as one of these.