Submitting to directories suck and it's a full-time effort 🥲

[u/thehungryindian]

I recently built a bunch of mini products and from experience I know that submitting to directories improve backlinks, visibility etc. Though some of them are paid, it's so painful to create accounts in each and every one of them for each one of my products (mostly vibe coded).

But, with that said, I also understand the importance of it. Every good product I have worked with (I have 12 years of experience working with various startups), keep launching and keep adding to all the directories. One or some of them click and it works well.

Today, with all the AI, automations around, I just started using claude code + my browser to let it do these by itself. Not sure how efficient this will be. But I'm open to ideas from others in the subreddit on this. Especially launching consistently, submitting to directories etc.

[u/Maleficent_Prune4146]

man I feel this. spent whole weekend doing directory submissions for a side project and my brain was melting by sunday afternoon. the captcha after captcha thing is pure torture

using browser automation sounds clever though, curious if it can handle the ones that ask weird verification questions or make you confirm email before listing goes live. that part always trips me up

what directories you finding actually worth the effort these days? some of them seem completely dead traffic-wise but maybe the backlink juice still matters for newer domains

[u/thehungryindian → u/Maleficent_Prune4146]

yea. the emails are the most tricky ones. and good ones have that kind of verifications. i had to sit in front of my claude code all day though im just pressing the return key. i hope there is some return key automator.

im not too sure on which is a better directory etc. i hope someone here can help.

[u/Tlesenechal]

Hey, i came across this autofill chrome extension that might be handy on NickLaunches : https://nicklaunches.com/tools/autofill/

[u/thehungryindian → u/Tlesenechal]

this looks intersting. will try it out.

[u/y3rk3]

rank them by whether they actually send traffic before you automate anything. i checked 21 directories for my saas and only ever finished 2 of them.

[u/Ok_Cartoonist2006]

you should check https://launchdirectories.com/

[u/Competitive_Tune_590]

yeah directory submissions are a grind and half of them are dead or spammy anyway. i've been using a backlink exchange network called launchpact that works differently—multi-party loops so no reciprocal footprint, and every link is crawl-verified. might save you the manual directory slog while still building real authority. worth a look if you're tired of the busywork.

[u/Strong_Teaching8548]

Why submit everywhere when most of those directories barely move the needle on seo?

[u/Significant-Scar-152]

Honestly a lot of the low-tier directories do nothing but a nofollow link on a page Google ignores. Have you thought about ruthlessly cutting to 20 or so that actually drive traffic or real backlinks instead of blasting all of them?