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Web App Directories to Promote Your Startup

justinmcgill.net

60 pointsnovelco14 comments

Has 105 different websites that you can promote your startup or web app to. The post itself also includes a downloadable excel file.

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Oh wow. Remember those "submit your link to these search engines" sites back in the late nineties / early 00s? Or "site of the day" sites?

What is old is new again.

Genuine question: how many of these sites (except for resources like Crunchbase) are actually visited by real people? I'd love for someone to test the impact of submitting to all of these.

You can use Alexa rank and other public metrics as a crude first-approximation of how many visitors a site gets. In my experience it's usually accurate to within an order of magnitude for sites that aren't incredibly big or incredibly small.

Here are the results for the first 10 domains on the list:

    domain                 daily visitors
    ------------------------------------
    101bestwebsites        5,000
    aboutyourstartup       3,500
    alltopstartups         11,000
    alternativeto          1,750,000
    angel.co               500,000
    appappeal              15,000
    appmit                 400
    apps400                5,000
    appuseful              3,000
    appvita                6,000

Web app directories? Is it 1995 all over again? Are we going to have webrings again?

Many of these sites have real visitors. Even lesser known sites can dozen around a hundred visitors to your page...which is better than nothing.

[[citation needed]]

As long as we can have guestbooks too.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?output=search&s...

App idea, service that hits all of the links and submits your startup.

I'm currently finishing up our software/webapp/saas review subsite here:

https://software.techendo.com/

Would love any feedback.

https://software.techendo.com/leaderboard

Leaderboard URL is raising 404. (The page you were looking for doesn't exist.)

Looks like you have some issues with SSL on a lot of the pages.

What did you find? Can you give me some more info on that?

You can also promote your startup on my "Internet Startups" Google+ community, posting (only once) under the "Introduce your startup" category:

https://plus.google.com/communities/100445483815501942968

site currently 404s.

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