Product Hunt

Product Hunt is now the forefront when it comes to showcasing your product to the startup directory world. It is a great platform to promote services on Technology, games or books, and well, pretty much everything. It has a voting system which enables your product to rise in the list of new products. The benefits of Product Hunt if something goes viral, it can very quickly. If you are looking to attract customers who are always in search of newer products, then Product Hunt is one of the main websites you should look for, which has more than 90k subscribers. Also, the subscription is absolutely free.

HackerNews

If you have a technology-related startup and/or looking for some feedback, you can post it at HackerNews. Do not forget to mention that you are looking for feedback or give it an overly promotional title. Hacker News is a great platform if you have a startup serving a technical audience. It’s a great service and if want to target the tech people, then it can be a great community to promote your offering to a community of hackers and entrepreneurs. It currently has 150k plus subscribers and guesses what, the subscription is free! You can see how to help him nearly receive over 70,000 hits in just one day.

Beta List

Well if you are fine giving finer details about your startup and product, it is worth registering and filling the format and Beta list. By a LARGE margin, this startup directory was the one that sent hundreds of visitors and the signup rate was probably 30%.

Index.co

Index.co was unveiled recently by one of the co-founders of The Next Web, Patrick de Laive. Index’s purpose is to be a business intelligence tool that tracks thousands of tech companies around the world. The index aims to make tools for gathering information on tech companies “previously only available for Wall Street and the Fortune 500 companies – for the ‘Main Street’. Index.co will help you create your own customisable stream of companies, locations and markets to track. You can sign up for your company profile get updated easily for no fee for a platform which has now more than around 7k users.

Angellist

If you need funds to raise funding for your startup, Angellist is a great platform to build a community that will help you get seed funding. Within the startup directory world, it’s one of the best directories for exhibiting startups globally. It’s now also starting to become a social network, meaning you can connect with investors and high-net-worth professionals to help receive funding for your startup.

Designer News

With Designer News, you can share your product design and collect feedback.Designer News can be a great place to promote your product then as you will be able to target designers in a platform of 17k subscribers who get to sign up free of charge.

Launching Next

Very similar to BetaList, Launching Next is an impressive platform that features the most promising startups on a daily basis. Why do I mention impressive? It has great guides and content in relation to launching startups to gain early user traction and successful case studies of entrepreneurs launching startups at a low-cost. Further related to their content, they have individually interviewed startup founders launching their startups, and asking them their experiences of launching startups, and what lessons they learnt.

Springwise

Springwise is a fantastic platform covering all facets of startup ideas and innovation including; health and education, lifehacks, Internet of Things, fashion, retail, entertainment, homes & housing and many more. They only feature 3-5 daily new ideas/products to its social reach of over 400,000 users, but if you have a compelling product that is truly innovative and want to gain significant exposure, get featured on Springwise.

TheStartupPitch

The Startup Pitch is another great startup directory, but in a pitch format, just like what you would send to journalists to have your startup being featured in a major publication. The platform also has a community of subscribers of 25k who will give you feedback on your pitch and even share what your startup is all about. You will get to interact with the community of entrepreneurs who will give you feedback on your startup. It’s completely free.

NextBigWhat

NextBigWhat is a well known online media which basically features startups.

StartupJohn

Community of startups and early adopters

The Startup Inc

The Startup Inc is a fast growing startup listing directory on the web. You can list your startup and get it featured on the site.

StartUp beat

Featuring startup pitches, success stories, & funding news. StartUp beat reaches a wide audience and thousands of readers a month. If your company would like to join the conversation, they offer, via their partnership with Publicize, the opportunity to tell your story to a journalist and get your news featured.

Inspire

Explore, share, and get inspired by beautifully designed landing pages for mobile applications to design or improve your website.

Owwly

Find the best digital products & learn from makers like you.

SideProjects

Show off, give feedback and grow. SideProject.net is a relative new platform that is perfect to submit your sideproject. It does not have a huge community behind it yet, but that can change.

Startupbase.io

Discover The Best New Startups Every Day. StartupBase is a community of makers and early adopters to share & discuss the latest products and ideas. It is a place to discover and get early access to exciting new startups.

Startuplister

Startuplister helps you build backlinks and get exposure by manually submitting your details to a curated list of relevant blogs, directories, review sites, and more.

Reddit-Side Projects

Reddit is fantastic when it comes to getting very quick feedback and have discussions on any topic around the Web. Reddit-Side projects is a great subreddit for new startups to get feedback on ideas for businesses and small side projects. Being engaged with the community of 9k subscribers will help you sell your idea more for no fee at all.

Reddit-Entrepreneur

Reddit-Entrepreneur is not a place to submit your startup, but you can tell stories for free about your product to of 100k+ subscribers. There is a likely chance with more discussion around your startup story or entrepreneurial concept, that you may get featured on the front page. The only limitation is that you need over 10 karma points, but if you’re an avid Reddit user, this is perfect to launch your startup in a startup directory.

Alternative To

Crowdsourced software recommendations

GeekWire

GeekWire is a fast-growing, national technology news site with strong roots in the Seattle region and a large audience of loyal, tech-savvy readers around the globe, who follow the site for breaking news, expert analysis and unique insights into the technology industry.

StartupBuffer

StartupBuffer is another directory to submit your startup. They claim to help you get discovered through their website, mobile apps, and social networks.

Capterra

Search, compare, and choose the right software with confidence

Uplabs

UpLabs is the place to find high-quality design resources for designers, creative agencies and developers

G2 Crowd, Inc

Get the right software & services for your business

F6S Network Limited

F6S is where Founders grow together.

Inc42

Inc42 is a leading Indian media and information platform, known for its end-to-end coverage of the Indian startup ecosystem.

Springwise

The Global Source For Innovation Intelligence. The Springwise innovation spotting network is powered by our unique and trusted community of global Springspotters in over 190 countries around the world, alongside over 70,000 newsletter subscribers. These boots on the ground are what make our intelligence so useful and so unique – spotting innovations that matter as they happen, wherever they happen.

Getapp

Discover the Best Apps to Grow Your Business

Growth Hackers

Premier growth community

Killer Startups

Sometimes it looks spammy with no filters but still, its feed is often circulated on the web so it is worth submitting to killer startup. It’s listing pages do rank well in search engines through them asking about company finances is a little turn off, not to mention the saying that free submissions take 3-6 months for approval and for quick listing, you need to pay $197!

NextBigWhat

NextBigWhat is a well known online media which basically features startups.

iamwire

iamwire is an incubator platform for entrepreneurs, professionals and innovations happening globally.

Stackshare

Find the right developer tools and the companies that use them

All Top Startups

Founded in February 2010, Alltopstartups has become a great resource site for young entrepreneurs starting and growing businesses. AllTopStartups is committed to sharing resources for entrepreneurs and startups, providing essential tools and resources to start, grow, and manage a startup.

Index.co

Index.co was unveiled recently by one of the co-founders of The Next Web, Patrick de Laive. Index’s purpose is to be a business intelligence tool that tracks thousands of tech companies around the world. The index aims to make tools for gathering information on tech companies “previously only available for Wall Street and the Fortune 500 companies – for the ‘Main Street’. Index.co will help you create your own customisable stream of companies, locations and markets to track. You can sign up for your company profile get updated easily for no fee for a platform which has now more than around 7k users.

IndieHackers

Indie Hackers is a place where the founders of profitable businesses and side projects can share their stories transparently, and where entrepreneurs can come to read and learn from those examples.

SnapMunk

SnapMunk is dedicated to providing readers with all things interesting, exciting and entertaining in the world of tech news, startup companies and startup culture.

StartupRanking

Discover, rank and prospect startups worldwide

Startup Stash

A curated directory of tools and resources to build your startup

Webwiki

Consumer Reviews of Businesses and Websites. Find trustworthy sites and share your experiences

StartupBlink

Have you ever wondered how the strength of your local startup ecosystem compares to others? What about the vital factors that help empower a growing ecosystem? StartupBlink’s comprehensive global startup ecosystem map and research center provides users with all the data they need to make better-informed business decisions.

TechFaster

Launching Next

Very similar to BetaList, Launching Next is an impressive platform that features the most promising startups on a daily basis. Why do I mention impressive? It has great guides and content in relation to launching startups to gain early user traction and successful case studies of entrepreneurs launching startups at a low-cost. Further related to their content, they have individually interviewed startup founders launching their startups, and asking them their experiences of launching startups, and what lessons they learnt.

Beta Page

Well if you are fine giving finer details about your startup and product, it is worth registering and filling the format and Beta list. By a LARGE margin, this startup directory was the one that sent hundreds of visitors and the signup rate was probably 30%.

Crozdesk Ltd

Business software discovery platform

The Startup Pitch

The Startup Pitch gives Startups the ability to answer some questions about their product and have it turned into a Pitch.

Alternative.me

alternative.me is a platform for optimizing connections between a variety of software and product alternatives

SaasGenius

SaasGenius lets you find the right software for your business. Browse the software directory for free and find software solutions tailored to your needs.

Side Projectors

Sell, Buy & Discover Awesome Side Projects

Startup Buffer

Startup88

StartupResources.io

Curated lists of the best startup tools and a weekly newsletter of all things dedicated to helping you build your startup

Robin Good's T5

Free or quasi-free tools for communication professionals hand-picked and tested by Robin-Good

Startup Tracker

Discover and track startups from MVP to IPO

Web App Rater

Paggu

News and blog posts about entrepreneurship

Crazy About Startups

We are crazy about startups… Are you?

Appvita

Bootstrappers.io

The Bootstrapped Founders club is a private members club for founders who are bootstrapping their products to chat and network with like-minded people.

Allstartups.info

The right place for world's startups showcases. Discover newest startups submitted daily.

Spectacle

Discover the best product & marketing videos on the web. Spectacle is the place where makers and marketers get inspiration for their next video project and stay current on the latest video trends. Sign up to save your favorites.

Getworm

Get Worm brings startups and users together, and let startups recognize and appreciate their early adopters with exclusive rewards (worms).

SaasHub

The Independent Software Marketplace

That App Show

Your app, your show.

Launch Lister

See the day's hottest product launches, right in your inbox.

Startup Button

Launched

Launched! is a community where makers showcase their startup/product and get feedback from early adopters.

Adsoup

adsoup is a privacy-conscious network built for small technology businesses looking to promote their software products.

Startup Inspire

StartupInspire is a inspiration gallery for startup's, where a high quality of culture and quality placed from around the world.

Toolsalad

A Curated Directory of 201+ Online Marketing Tools

Allstartups

An User Generated Content Marketing Media Venture for Founders, Entrepreneurs to Promote Startup Company, Product line and Services to Scale Business.

Startup Costs

Startup Costs hosts many startups and side projects that bravely share their monthly running costs.

10 Words

Discover new apps and startups in 10 words or less

FeedMyStartup

FeedMyStartup provides the platform for Startups & Entrepreneurs to showcase their unique and creative ideas to our community.

Saasified

Get Saasified to stay up to date on the most important news, trends, and reviews in SaaS.

Startup Roulette

Explore Amazing Startups or share your startup with the world.

Storified.com

Tell your story and share your journey with potential customers, investors, journalist and fellow entrepreneurs across our inspiring global community.

Stimufy

Stimufy is a live feed ordered by clicks where content goes viral. The same exact link can be posted at most once every 7 days and a link from the same domain at most once every 24 hours. You can post at most once every 10min.

StartupWizz

StartupWizz is based in Florida, United States. It was founded in 2009 as a place for entrepreneurs and investors to stay informed about startups on the web. Their goal is to find some of the most disruptive, niche and interesting startups that our peers and investors want to know about. So, if you have a startup or work for one, go ahead and submit a startup this Startup Directory.

Mashable

Mashable often covers consumer-based startups directories (or anything which is of interest to its users) so it is worth submitting to it too here. If you get covered fine if not, that is OK. Do try to send them something newsworthy rather than just telling the features of the startup.

TechCrunch

You can send “tips” to TechCrunch from here. The chances of you getting covered through this are very rare but it may work if you can give some spin to your sales pitch.

CrunchBase

There are 130,000+ “startups” listed at CrunchBase and it is a good place where you should have your company profile as these profiles rank really well in search engines.

Betabound

Betabound is a place for people who want a hand in the next big thing in technology. We collect and organize a wide variety of beta testing opportunities from all over the world and present them in a structured and consistent format.

FeedMyApp

App reviews

VentureBeat Profiles

This is only a tool but it’s a great way to show your startup to many high-profile entrepreneurs. Very similar to Index.co, it’s a handy tool to get updated with the trends of your industry for free. You can add your company there and get the latest updates on recent trends to plan your business accordingly.

Submit.co

Where to get press coverage for your startup.