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Website Hunt: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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A weekly newsletter of good-looking sites, behind a Django login

websitehunt.co
Website Hunt homepage
Eligibility

Who Website Hunt accepts

You need
A live public URL that looks good enough to feature
An account
You'll be rejected if
The whole premise is how the site looks, so a product with a plain or unfinished front page is a weak candidate.
Web appsDesign toolsSaaS products
What you actually get
A place in a weekly roundup of websites, which is closer to a curated newsletter than a directory: there is a best-of-the-week feed, an archive and a random-site button. The cadence is the thing to plan around, because inclusion is weekly rather than continuous. Link value is unverified.

How to submit to Website Hunt

  1. Make an account
    The submit route redirects to a Django login with email and password and a csrf token.
  2. Submit the website
    Submissions live under /websites/submit/create.
  3. Wait for the week
    The feed and the newsletter are weekly, so inclusion follows that cadence.

Website Hunt requirements

A live public URL
An account: email and password
A front page worth featuring

Gotchas

The account is an email and password form with no social provider, so a person has to make it before anything can be submitted.
Selection is on how the site looks, so a strong product with a plain front page is a poor fit here even though it would pass elsewhere.
The cadence is weekly, so there is no continuous queue to join and a missed week is a week.

Let your agent submit to Website Hunt

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Website Hunt 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 3 Website Hunt rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 3 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into Website Hunt 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 Website Hunt?".
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Website Hunt FAQ

How long does Website Hunt approval take?
Website Hunt's typical time from submission to going live is about a week.
How much does it cost to submit to Website Hunt?
Submitting to Website Hunt is free.
Does Website Hunt give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Website Hunt are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 26.
Does Website Hunt require a backlink to your site?
No, Website Hunt does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Website Hunt?
The whole premise is how the site looks, so a product with a plain or unfinished front page is a weak candidate.