Good luck. I think that your emphasizing that it is manually submitted is important, and makes me expect that it'd be done with a higher level of quality than by an automated tool.
It has crossed my mind to automate a service like this, and then remembered back when there were competing search engines and directories. There were many automated, pay-for services that'd submit your site to them all at once, which of course never worked as well as doing it by hand.
Hey, great service. Will that promo code be expiring, and if so, when? I'm working on something right now and I would like to use this service, but I'm not quite ready yet.
no plan to expire the coupon code in the immediate future. but message me support [at] startuplister dot come to ensure that you can get the code when needed
Thanks for pointing it out. I agree, it's not very intuitive. It has a disabled attribute when there is no coupon code entered. As soon as a coupon code is entered the attribute is removed.
This reminds me of the "directory submission" services SEOs used years ago. Personally I doubt it's worth submitting to more than a few, Crunchbase, Angellist etc. In any event, I've never seen any significant traffic from these.
Is this basically a linkbuilding tool for SEO purposes? Do you have any stats on typical traffic your customers receive through submission to these sites?
If your startup is focussing on startups then maybe this could be of use. But I can't see the general appeal.
Besides adding a list of what sites you syndicate to, maybe startuplister could also provide a list of submitted sites (with an API too).
I can see the value, if you are going to list your startup on all of these services yourself by hand. But I do wonder about the intrinsic value of being listed on them too.
Really wish I could save my startup form answers (to local storage) without submitting the form. I have to leave, and can't finish the form right now. Should be easy using something like http://sisyphus-js.herokuapp.com/
For now, this hack seems to work. Run these commands in the browser console:
var form = $('#post').serialize();
localStorage.setItem('startuplister', JSON.stringify(form));
Then when you navigate back, do:
var form = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('startuplister'));
var s = document.createElement('script');
s.src = 'https://cdn.rawgit.com/kflorence/jquery-deserialize/master/src/jquery.deserialize.js';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);
$('#post').deserialize(form);
1) Just sent a refund and fixed the discount so it now will apply.
2) I think that is great feedback. I will work on implementing that tonight. When you hit submit, it's saved, but I will provide the functionality to edit it as well so you can have a partially completed application.
This is totally worth the cost. I started manually trying to post to all those sites and it's just not worth it for me. Too time consuming. 50$ is pretty cheap. Great job
I debated adding the top sources like Product Hunt, Crunchbase, Angel.co, and others but felt that those top tiered sites deserve a higher attentiveness than can be served by Startuplister.com. I think the idea here is to serve the longtail of directories...
That said, i'm open to suggestions. I did debate this for a while.
Be nice to send an email with those listed as a brucey bonus, maybe with some text to say these sites require a more hand crafted approach, and as such we are listing them here just to help you promote your service further. Or, an extra $10 gets you some extra links worth knowing about?
It would be useful to have some sense of the relative importance of the sites on your list. Maybe Alexa ranks, as a start? Or data from e.g. compete.com
Agreed. I initially sorted the list based on Alexa and PageRank. I think that data would be useful to include on http://startuplister.com/the-list/. Good suggestion on compete.com
Currently, I am the one submitting them to the directories. Though, to help scale I am going to hire carefully selected help. I do not believe mTurk workers would be qualified enough to be able to handle the submission process.
Sycren, Yes... I did debate this for a while. I ended up deciding that sites like Crunchbase, Angel.co, and similar caliber have more involved than can be served by Startuplister. That being said, i'd be curious to hear if you think it'd be of value to be able to submit to Crunchbase, Angel.co, Producthunt, and other similar services all at the same time.
It seems including those would give a more end-to-end feel rather than supplementing one effort with another. It would be a greater value add to have the largest sites also included.
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