When I got ready to launch everyone told me to submit to startup directories. So I did. I'm now at 600+ of them and I wrote down what happened on every single one. Most of it was painful. A lot of the "free" ones want their badge on your homepage first. Some put you in a queue for months. One gave me a wait of 2,519 days unless I paid $19. Plenty of the sites on the popular lists are just dead. So I turned it all into a free skill for Claude Code and Codex. You tell your agent what you're building and it gives you a shortlist. It can: Find directories that are actually free with no badge and no queue Skip anything you can't do, like adding a badge or giving a phone number Match places to your kind of product and your country Tell you what each one costs, what the catch is and how long it takes to go live Check a directory before you waste time on it ("Is BetaList free?") npx skills add mmmmingos/where-to-submit-your-startup It reads the same list I keep updating as I go. My goal is 1,000 directories. After that I want to try some of the paid ones with my own money and see if any are worth it. Which directories actually worked for you? If there's one I should test next let me know.   submitted by   /u/XudaChris [link]   [comments]