Weekly Monday launches with 25 free slots, all of them booked about six months out unless you pay $5 to jump the queue.
startuups.com
Eligibility
Who startuups.com accepts
You need
An account, created by Google or GitHub sign-in
A square logo under 1MB
A 50 to 160 character short description and a 200 to 1,500 character long one
Agreement to their upvote policy
You'll be rejected if
Nothing published, though self-upvoting past once can delete the launch or the account
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What you actually get
A project page that goes live immediately as Scheduled, then a Monday launch with upvoting and a weekly ranking. The dofollow link is conditional on the free tier: you get it by finishing in the week's top 3 or by displaying their badge. The $5 tier just gives it to you.
How to submit to startuups.com
1
Sign in
Continue with Google or GitHub. No password anywhere.
2
Project info
Name, domain (they add https:// for you), a 50 to 160 character short description, a 1:1 logo under 1MB and an optional 16:9 product image. A live preview shows the card as you type.
3
Details
A rich-text description of 200 to 1,500 characters, up to three categories from 26, platforms, pricing model and optional social links.
4
Pick a launch week
Every launch is a Monday at 08:00 UTC. The picker shows free and premium slots per week; at the time of writing every free slot was taken until about six months out.
5
Agree and submit
A required upvote-policy checkbox, then Submit Project. The page goes live at once marked Scheduled with its launch date.
startuups.com requirements
Account (Google or GitHub)
1:1 logo, 1MB max
Short description, 50-160 characters
Description, 200-1,500 characters
Up to 3 categories and at least one platform
16:9 product imageoptional
LinkedIn and X URLsoptional
Gotchas
The free queue is genuinely full: on 14 August 2026 every free slot was taken through 1 February 2027, and the first week with room was 8 February, about 25 weeks out. The $5 tier is a queue-jump before it is anything else.
Nothing about the free link is guaranteed: it turns dofollow only as a reward for a top-3 finish, or for as long as their badge is on your site. Paying is the only way to have it promised outright.
Premium is preselected on the launch-type step and clicking the free card opens a 'Why Choose Premium?' modal. Close it and check the free card is the highlighted one before continuing.
Let your agent submit to startuups.com
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the startuups.com 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 startuups.com rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 7 fields this form asks for, 2 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that startuups.com 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: $5 skips the queue, guarantees the dofollow link and features you on the homepage.
Types it into startuups.com 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 startuups.com?".
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startuups.com FAQ
How long does startuups.com approval take?
startuups.com's typical time from submission to going live is 25+ weeks.
How much does it cost to submit to startuups.com?
startuups.com has a free submission option plus paid placement ($5 skips the queue, guarantees the dofollow link and features you on the homepage).
Does startuups.com give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on startuups.com carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 27.
Does startuups.com require a backlink to your site?
Yes, startuups.com expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from startuups.com?
Nothing published, though self-upvoting past once can delete the launch or the account.