Findly Submission Guide: What to Prepare First

Findly is a curated tools finder: fewer entries, better filtering. Curated catalogues reward a precise category choice over a broad one.

The short answer

Findly is worth a submission once the product has a working site and a pricing page. Earlier usually means a rejection, a resubmission, and a slot that arrives after the audience moved on.

What Findly is

An AI and software tools finder with curated categories, filters and outbound links to each tool. The submission form is on findly.co.

Before you touch the form

Use their filter vocabulary exactly. Unfilled filter fields mean you never appear in a filtered result, however good the description.

Submitting, in order

List every filter field in the form
Fill each with a term a visitor would use
Match the category to a filter value
Submit and test a filter
Note which filters you skipped

One thing that catches people out

Use their filter vocabulary exactly. If the directory filters by 'use case' and 'platform', make sure both fields are filled with terms a visitor would filter on.

What it is good for

AI catalogues send the most qualified traffic a directory can send — the visitor is shopping for a tool in that category rather than reading news. Volume is small; intent is not.

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

For the launch side, SaasHunt is the one with a fixed clock: go-live at 08:00 UTC, daily and weekly Top 5 deciding who reaches the newsletter, dofollow on every approved listing. Free is $0 with a badge and a queue that can run 270 days; $9.9 skips the line, $12.9 buys the earliest slot plus a permanent featured placement, $49 adds a written review, $50 adds ten DR 30–65 dofollow links.

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The filter fields are the SEO

A curated finder with filters is really a set of generated pages: one for each combination of category, platform and use case. Your listing's discoverability depends on which of those combinations you appear in, and that is decided entirely by the fields you fill.

Which is why the instruction matters more than it looks. A blank field is not a neutral choice; it removes you from every filtered view that would have included you, and those views are where browsing actually happens.

Choosing between two categories

Curated catalogues usually offer a narrow category and a broad one. The instinct is to pick the broad one for reach. The better choice is the narrow one, provided the category page exists and has comparable tools in it.

A narrow category with thirty entries is read to the end, indexed as a topic, and browsed by people who already know what they want. A broad category with four hundred entries is a haystack your listing enters at random.

What curation does to acceptance odds

Fewer entries means each submission is judged harder, so the copy has to answer the curator's implicit question: does this belong in a set this small? Two sentences naming the specific job and the specific user beat a paragraph of features.

If it is rejected, ask which field was unclear. Curators of small catalogues usually answer, and the answer improves every later submission in the batch.

Checking your filter coverage afterwards

Once live, run the filters yourself: pick the category, then the platform, then the use case, and confirm your product appears in each narrowing. Any filter that drops you is a field you filled with the wrong vocabulary.

That test takes three minutes and often reveals a single missing attribute that was hiding the listing from most of the catalogue's traffic.

The field that decides your card

If the form allows a short tagline separate from the description, treat it as the only copy that matters: it is what appears on the card, and cards are scanned rather than read. Write it as an outcome with a verb, keep it under sixty characters, and test it against the five products beside you.

Two fields, twenty minutes

If time is short, fill the category and the use case and skip the rest of the optional fields. Those two decide which filtered pages you appear on, and every other field is decoration that a curator may or may not use.