How to Submit to Alltopstartups: A 2026 Walkthrough

Alltopstartups is a long-running startup resource site with a directory component, aimed at founders rather than buyers. The audience is peers, not customers.

The short answer

Treat Alltopstartups as one row in a list, not a strategy. It costs ten minutes, produces a listing that persists, and may or may not leave a followed link behind — which is why the check afterwards matters more than the submission.

What Alltopstartups is

A startup resource and directory site: listings and articles aimed at founders, covering tools, services and new companies. The submission form is on alltopstartups.com.

Submitting, in order

Write the benefit as a saved hour or a saved step
Check whether guest posts are accepted
Submit the listing through the form
Pitch one article separately if relevant
Track referral clicks for a month

Before you touch the form

Decide whether you are submitting a listing or pitching an article — two different actions with two different payoffs. The listing is routine; the editorial pitch needs a story angle, and sending the product description to it wastes the one attempt.

What it is good for

General and niche directories give a young domain a citation that persists for years, which matters when the domain currently has almost none.

Writing for someone with too little time

Use the second person and a verb. 'Reconciles Stripe payouts in one screen' is a task; 'financial operations platform' is a category. The founder reading it is deciding whether to spend ten minutes now, and the sentence has to promise that the ten minutes pays back.

One thing that catches people out

Founder audiences click on things that remove work from their week. A listing written as a category entry gets skipped; one that names the hour it saves — the handover, the invoice chase, the report — gets opened by someone with too much to do.

Checking what you actually got

Open your listing, not the homepage, and confirm it loads
Inspect the outbound anchor for rel="nofollow", "ugc" or "sponsored"
Check the anchor points at your canonical URL, not a redirect
Search the listing URL in Google after six weeks
Log the result with the date you checked

Where it fits in a launch plan

Put it with the founder-facing sites rather than the buyer-facing ones. This audience is looking for tools to try this week, which is a different intent from comparison shopping.

Listing or article

Two actions with two payoffs. The listing is routine and produces a page; the article pitch needs an angle and produces coverage.

Decide which you are doing before you write, because the copy for one is useless for the other.

What a founder reader needs

They are deciding whether to spend ten minutes now. The copy has to promise that the ten minutes pay back.

That means a task and an outcome, in the second person, without a category lecture.

Second person, one verb

"Reconciles Stripe payouts in one screen" is a task. "Financial operations platform" is a category. A founder scanning a resource site skips the second.

Verb first is the discipline, and it applies to the title as much as the description.

The ten-minute promise

Founders read resource sites for things they can act on: a tool, a tactic, a template. A listing that reads like an advertisement is skipped because it is not actionable.

Write as if the reader will try it today.

Pitching an article

If there is an angle — a contrarian lesson, a number from your own data, a decision that went wrong — pitch it separately with three sentences.

Do not attach the product description. Editors can find the product.

Peer audience, not buyers

The audience is other founders. They may become customers, partners or referrers, but they are not shopping.

That makes the listing a credibility page rather than a demand channel, which is a different, smaller return.

What the listing returns

A referring domain from a long-running domain, occasional peer traffic, and a page that persists.

Worth ten minutes, and worth doing properly once rather than quarterly.

What the archive does over a year

A long-running domain accumulates indexed pages and citations that newer catalogues lack. A listing there gains value slowly and quietly, mostly as a referring domain that still resolves next year.

That is the whole proposition, and it is worth ten accurate minutes.