Getting Listed on AITools.fyi: A Practical Checklist

AITools.fyi belongs to the .fyi generation of AI catalogs: lightweight, fast to publish, and mostly built on curated submission lists. Cheap citations, low authority.

The short answer

The only question that matters with AITools.fyi is whether the category page it publishes you into has search visibility of its own. If it does, the listing inherits it; if it does not, you have bought a card.

Before you touch the form

Strip the UTM parameters from the URL you intend to paste and shorten the opening clause to the differentiator alone. Lightweight catalogues publish instantly, which means the mistakes ship at the same speed.

Submitting, in order

Check the card length in the category
Write the first clause as the differentiator
Fill every optional field
Submit with no UTM parameters
Search the listing URL after six weeks

What AITools.fyi is

An AI tools directory with category pages and short product cards, accepting submissions with a description, link and category.

One thing that catches people out

Keep the description under 120 characters if the card allows it. Cards truncate hard, and the first clause is all most visitors read.

Mistakes that waste the submission

Submitting the same URL twice and getting flagged as a duplicate
Writing the description for a crawler instead of a reader
Skipping the screenshot because the form marked it optional
Assuming a listing means a followed link
Forgetting that the category page, not the listing, is what ranks

Checking what you actually got

Confirm the page is live within a week of submitting
Inspect the anchor: direct link or redirect
Note the referring domain’s DR in the same row
Re-check indexation at one month and again at three
Delete dead listings from the count instead of leaving them in

Where SaasHunt fits

Worth pairing with a platform that publishes on a schedule rather than a queue. SaasHunt launches at 08:00 UTC, ranks daily and weekly, and gives every approved listing a dofollow link; tiers start at $0 and run through $9.9, $12.9, $49 and $50 — the pricing page explains what each adds.

Submit your product

Strip the UTM before pasting

Lightweight catalogues publish instantly, so a tracking parameter in your URL ships with the listing and stays there. That produces a duplicate path being linked rather than your canonical page.

Clean the URL before copying it anywhere. Query strings are the most common defect on these sites because nobody reviews the submission before publication.

120 characters and a hard truncation

Cards cut at a fixed width, and the cut does not respect your sentence structure. Assume the first hundred characters are the entire description.

Write that hundred characters as a complete claim, then add anything else knowing it will often be invisible.

Instant publication, instant mistakes

No review queue means no second set of eyes. The catalogue assumes you checked, and nobody will tell you that the logo is stretched or that the link points at a staging domain.

The compensating habit is a same-day check: open the card, click the link, confirm it lands on the canonical page.

What the .fyi generation shares

Fast publication, thin descriptions, modest authority, occasional disappearance. They syndicate each other's lists, which means submitting to three often produces three near-identical experiences.

Treat them as one tier rather than as individual decisions, and set expectations accordingly.

Check the link the same day

Open the listing in a private window, click through, and confirm the destination. Two minutes, once, and it catches the only defect that actually costs you something.

A wrong link on an instant-publish catalogue is a live error with no notification and no review.

Surviving the cull

These catalogues periodically prune entries, often by removing anything that has not been updated or that has no traffic. There is nothing you can do about it beyond checking quarterly.

Record the loss honestly when it happens and stop counting the row.

What to expect from low authority

A referring domain with little authority of its own, a permanent page, and no traffic. That is the whole return, and it is enough to justify ten minutes in a batch of fifteen.