250+ places to launch your SaaS, sorted by DR: which ones give a dofollow link

Every launch guide has a list of "100+ directories to submit your startup to". Most of those lists are copied from each other, half the sites are dead, and none of them tell you the two things that matter: does the place give you a real link, and does anyone actually visit it?

So I started keeping my own list, checked by hand: what each place costs, whether the link is dofollow, whether it wants a badge on your site, and how long the queue is. It's now at 250+ places, sorted by Ahrefs DR, with search and filters:

👉 Where to launch your SaaS or app

Below is the short version: the places I'd start with, as of November 2026.

Why this matters more now: DR 4

Ahrefs is moving to a new Domain Rating model, DR 4. The big change: a link counts for more when the site it comes from gets organic search traffic. A dofollow link from a directory nobody visits adds little; a link from a place people find through Google adds a lot.

So "submit to 300 directories" is even less useful than it was. Fewer, better places win.

Free, dofollow, no badge needed

The best deals: a followed link without putting anything on your site.

If your product fits a niche, these are free and dofollow too:

• Containers: Docker Hub (DR 92)
• MCP servers: Docker MCP Catalog (DR 92, by pull request), LobeHub MCP Marketplace (DR 75), Cursor Directory (DR 73)
• Nice-looking sites: One Page Love (DR 79), Landbook (DR 73). Both are editorial: no reply means no.

Free with a badge

Most free dofollow directories ask for their badge or a link on your site. That's a fair trade if the place is strong, but every badge is a link out from your homepage, so pick a few good ones instead of twenty.

The big ones give nofollow links

Product Hunt (DR 92) and Peerlist Launchpad (DR 78) are nofollow. Still worth it for the visitors and feedback on launch day, just don't count on them for SEO.

Some places promise dofollow and don't deliver

I didn't take anyone's word for the link type. For every place I opened two or three real listing pages and checked the rel attribute on the link to the product. Most of the time it matched what the site says. For a group of directories it didn't, and that was the most surprising thing in the whole project.

You add their badge, you still get nofollow. The deal is always the same: put their badge on your site (a followed link to them), get a listing with a followed link back. I found listings where the maker had the badge live on their homepage, and the link to them was still rel="nofollow":

• Good AI Tools (DR 75): standard listings are nofollow, including one whose site carries the badge. Only a few featured listings were followed.
• The Core Tools, That App Show, App Hub List, weliketools.com and Million Dot Homepage: recent listings with the badge live are nofollow, while some older or featured ones are followed.
• NextBigProduct: products that show its badge still get ugc or sponsored.

Several of these run on the same template and carry the same ad for a paid submission service, so I treat them as one network rather than separate directories. That's a lot of badges on your homepage for zero followed links.

Paid for dofollow, nofollow on the page. AITroveX says on its pricing page that a paid submission gets a dofollow link. I couldn't find a single followed link on the 12 listing pages I checked.

The rule isn't applied. Launch Llama says the link turns dofollow with the badge or at 50 upvotes. Two listings with 700+ upvotes still had rel="nofollow".

No rule at all. BasedTools promises dofollow on Premium, and 10 of the 17 listings I checked were nofollow. Tool Find Dir was 8 nofollow out of 14, and Acid Tools had 38 nofollow among the 41 newest listings.

Check before you add a badge. Open two or three listings submitted in the last few weeks (not the featured ones at the top), right-click the "Visit website" link, choose Inspect and look at rel. If it says nofollow, ugc or sponsored, it isn't a dofollow link, whatever the site promises. It takes a minute and can save you a badge on your homepage for nothing.

In the full list, every place shows the link type I actually found, not the one it advertises.

How I'd spend launch week

1. Two or three launch platforms, spread over different days, not all at once.
2. Five to ten strong directories from the tables above. Write a fresh description for each one instead of pasting the same text everywhere.
3. A real post on DEV, Indie Hackers or Reddit about what you built and why. Communities ignore links; they read stories.
4. Skip the long tail. A directory with a high DR but no visitors won't send anyone, whatever its number says.
5. Paid fast-tracks ($9 to $49 at most places) only make sense when a queue is months long and your launch date matters.

The full list

All 250+ places are here, with filters for free, dofollow, high DR, no sign-up, fast approval, AI tools, SaaS, developer tools and mobile apps, plus a search box if you just want to check whether a place is any good:

👉 another.directory/where-to-launch

Know a place that's missing, or something out of date? There's a suggest form on the page, and I check every one.

Full disclosure: the list lives on Another Directory, a directory of new software tools that I run. You can list your tool there too: it gets its own page saying what it does, who it's for and what it costs.