Overview
Every launch guide says "submit to directories". None of them say which ones accept your kind of product, what the form will ask, or what actually happens after you hit submit. SubmitMap is that missing map: a free, editorial directory of launch platforms with a phased route of guides that puts them in order.
Key Features
- A typed record per platform, not a row in a list: who it accepts, what disqualifies you, the real submission steps, the assets and limits the form enforces, the gotchas that cost people a submission, and an approval time taken from a fixed scale so platforms can be compared.
- Dofollow checked, not claimed. A pricing page promising a followed backlink and a live listing's rel attribute often disagree. The directory records what live listings actually do, including where the followed link is conditional on paying or on hosting a badge.
- A seven-phase route. Get launch-ready, free directories with no gatekeeping, the big launches, communities, marketplaces and registries, compounding visibility, and paid last, with the guides for each phase.
- A qualification check. Every platform carries machine-readable criteria: minimum domain rating, pricing model, product stage, public repo, demo video, privacy policy, backlink deal. Point it at your product and it says what you qualify for now, what you are one piece away from, and what is out of reach.
- An MCP server. Connect SubmitMap to your AI agent and it can search the directory, read a platform record and qualify your product with no account. With an account it stores your submission pack, plans an ordered run, pulls a playbook written for each specific form, fills it in your own browser and logs the result.
Use Cases
A solo founder with one product and a week, who needs the order rather than another list. Someone who has launched before and lost the spreadsheet, because the gotchas are the expensive part to relearn: the submit path that 404s, the paid tier that is preselected, the badge that has to be live before the button unlocks. An indie hacker running an agent, turning a day of copy-paste into a supervised session.
Getting Started
Read the directory. No sign-up wall, no email gate, no trial. Filter by what accepts your product, by pricing, by approval speed or by link type, and read a platform's record before you open its form. Then build your submission pack once: name, tagline under 60 characters, three lengths of description, a square icon, gallery frames at 1270x760, an OG image and a maker bio. Every form after that is a paste job.
Pricing & Plans
The directory, the guides, the lists and the qualification checks are free and need no account, and so are the three MCP tools that read the directory. The dashboard and the agent tooling are 29 dollars a month, 190 a year, or 250 once. No platform pays for placement, on any plan.
