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Tiny Startups: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A DR 71 launch board whose free queue was 1,513 products deep when we joined it, and whose own form quotes the price of skipping that queue in pounds.
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Eligibility
Who Tiny Startups accepts
You need
An account, by Google or an emailed sign-in link
A square logo and a 16:9 featured image
A description of at least fifty characters
Their badge on your site, which they require of free submissions
Five visits to other launches, which confirm the submission
You'll be rejected if
Nothing published: their own wording is that a SaaS, marketplace, mobile app, productized service or newsletter are all welcome
Assuming a listing is guaranteed, which their form explicitly denies
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What you actually get
A dated launch slot on a board that runs weekly rankings, with your logo, a featured image, up to five feature bullets and a category page. The free listing does not carry a dofollow link; their 99 pound add-on is what sells that separately.
How to submit to Tiny Startups
1
Sign in first
/submit is a wall until you do. Google works, or they will email a sign-in link.
2
Fill one long page
Name, a 60-character tagline, a description over fifty characters, up to five key features, logo, featured image, URL, category, and four optional questions.
3
Untick the upgrade
The next screen opens with "Skip the queue" already ticked at 99 pounds and an add-on total to match. Four more paid boxes sit under it. The button reads Submit for Free once they are all clear.
4
Visit five launches
A gate, not a suggestion: the submission is not confirmed until the counter reads 5 of 5. Each Check it out marks one.
5
Take the badge and note the date
The confirmation page names your launch date and hands you a badge marked required for free submissions.
Tiny Startups requirements
An account
Product name and live URL
Tagline within 60 characters
A description of at least fifty characters
A square logo, PNG or JPG, under 5MB
A featured image, 16:9, under 5MB
One category
Their badge on your site
Up to five key feature lines, twenty words eachoptional
An X handle, which they link from the listingoptional
A discount code for their communityoptional
Gotchas
The queue is the product. Their own upgrade screen told us 1,513 startups were ahead of us, and the date we were given was two months out.
"Skip the queue" is pre-ticked at 99 pounds with a total already showing, so the free lane starts as a 99 pound checkout until you untick it.
Submitting is not the last step. Until you have opened five other launches the listing sits unconfirmed, and nothing on the form warns you first.
The badge is required of free submissions and only appears on the confirmation page, after the work is done.
The free listing is not dofollow. That is one of the five paid add-ons, at 99 pounds, and the prices are in pounds rather than dollars.
Let your agent submit to Tiny Startups
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Tiny Startups 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 7 Tiny Startups rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 11 fields this form asks for, 3 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Tiny Startups 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: add-ons in GBP: skip the queue for next Monday's batch at 99, a permanent listing with a dofollow link at 99, four partner backlinks at 199, a newsletter feature at 129, a written review article at 99.
Types it into Tiny Startups 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 Tiny Startups?".
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Tiny Startups FAQ
How long does Tiny Startups approval take?
Tiny Startups's typical time from submission to going live is months in queue.
How much does it cost to submit to Tiny Startups?
Tiny Startups has a free submission option plus paid placement (Add-ons in GBP: skip the queue for next Monday's batch at 99, a permanent listing with a dofollow link at 99, four partner backlinks at 199, a newsletter feature at 129, a written review article at 99).
Does Tiny Startups give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Tiny Startups are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 71.
Does Tiny Startups require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Tiny Startups expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Tiny Startups?
Nothing published: their own wording is that a SaaS, marketplace, mobile app, productized service or newsletter are all welcome; Assuming a listing is guaranteed, which their form explicitly denies.