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startups.gallery: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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A hand-picked early-stage database that says out loud it can spot an automated submission and will not review it.

startups.gallery
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Eligibility

Who startups.gallery accepts

You need
A live startup
A real email address
Someone genuinely connected to the company to submit it
You'll be rejected if
Automated submissions, which they say they can spot
Anything past early stage
Early-stage startupsSaaS productsIndie products
What you actually get
A place in a curated early-stage database alongside jobs and funding news, if a human picks it. They claim 40,000 unique visitors a month and say every submission is read.

How to submit to startups.gallery

  1. Describe it in ten words
    Startup name, website and a ten-word description on a Tally form.
  2. Say who you are
    Your relationship to the startup (founder, employee, VC or other) and the funding source (VC-backed, bootstrapped or other).
  3. Clear the captcha
    A captcha sits between the form and the submit button and the form refuses without it.

startups.gallery requirements

A ten-word description
Your relationship to the startup
The funding source
A real email address

Gotchas

A captcha guards the submit button, so this one cannot be finished by an agent at all.
Their own note under the form says automated submissions are easy to spot and probably will not be reviewed, so a run that games it is worse than not submitting.

Let your agent submit to startups.gallery

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the startups.gallery 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 startups.gallery 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, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into startups.gallery 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 startups.gallery?".
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startups.gallery FAQ

How long does startups.gallery approval take?
startups.gallery does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to startups.gallery?
Submitting to startups.gallery is free.
Does startups.gallery give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from startups.gallery are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 27.
Does startups.gallery require a backlink to your site?
No, startups.gallery does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from startups.gallery?
Automated submissions, which they say they can spot; Anything past early stage.