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Show HN: Startuplister – A startup directory listing service

startuplister.com

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In the vein of all the meta threads about directories and places to submit your startup, (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525584, https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup, etc) i've compiled all of the directory submission forms into one form, and will submit your startup to the directories for a small fee.

30% discount code for HN crowd: HN2014

I just added your site to https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup

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.

Sweet.. I just submitted to ProductHunt.com .. just need your twitter handle to get you in the game and answer some questions.

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/startuplister

Thanks! Just sent you a message.

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

Your "Apply code" button has the "disabled" attribute set. Manually removing that in chrome inspector it works as expected

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.

Ah - how are you tracking that there's text entered? If it helped I pasted it in and it didn't seem to un-disable for me

Chrome on Linux (Fedora 20)

Do these lists create accounts, and do you pass those credentials along?

Great question. Yes, some require accounts. For the ones that do, we provide you with the account details once all submissions have been completed.

I'm also very curious to find out how much you made today by being on hackernews today :) Would be awesome if you could share that tomorrow.

+1. Also curious how much you will make from this HN show post. I signed up by the way. :-)

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.

10 Years ago exist Search-Engine-Lister that do the same, today we have Startup-Lister, funny.

Nothing against your Service, 50 Dollars are a good price.

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/

I just use notes - pain in the ass, but it's a task now worth $50.

Excellent point. Working on a fix for this now.

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);

http://garlicjs.org/

Thanks for the tip on GarlicJS! I just implemented it and it was super slick.

Two questions:

1) Didn't see the HN discount, any chance that can be applied to my account retroactively? tim@onarbor.com.

2) There is alot to fill out on this one form. Can I save a partially completed application? What happens when I hit the submit button?

Tim,

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

Very cool service crixlet. Surprised ProductHunt isn't on there.

Also, the Useful Resources links at the bottom need hrefs and growthackers should be growthhackers :)

Thanks -- fixed the links.

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?

That makes sense to me. Appreciate the growthhackers link! :)

Looks interesting!

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

Looks like I will be your customer in a few days for this: http://ownmycopy.com/

Is this built on top of Mechanical Turk? Whenever I see something listed as "manual" my mind immediately goes there.

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.

This is fantastic. I will be a customer in next couple weeks. If you could add more marketing services you can up-sell me.

Great service, signup follows soon.

BTW, you have mixed content (HTTP vs HTTPS) on your signup page.

Thank you! Fixing the mixed content now.

FYI -- signup is no longer loaded w/ mixed content. Appreciate the heads-up.

I'm somewhat surprised that Crunchbase is not on here...

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.

Higher tier level (fee) to include the larger sites, i.e. angel.co and crunchbase.

Great service, I will surely use you within 3 months!

"Enter at least keywords"

Thanks! Fixed.

You should add startuptabs.com

Thanks! I actually do have it already listed! http://d.pr/i/ypdh

seems like this link is dead?? did you shutdown the service

Nope we didn't shut it down.. Are you still having trouble?

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