Submit to Resource.fyi: Fields, Timeline and What You Get

Resource.fyi is a resource list rather than a product directory: entries are curated links by theme. Inclusion is editorial and the audience is researching, not buying.

The short answer

Treat Resource.fyi 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.

Before you touch the form

Read the list, then choose the exact page you are offering and say why it belongs there. Resource lists add links rather than products, and a homepage pitch is the one an editor ignores.

What Resource.fyi is

A curated resource list of tools and links organised by theme, updated by editors.

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.

Submitting, in order

1. Read the list's existing entries
2. Write the use in one sentence
3. Email an editor rather than a form
4. Offer a specific page
5. Follow up once

One thing that catches people out

Pitch the resource, not the company. Editors add things because they are useful to their readers, so explain the use in one sentence.

Mistakes that waste the submission

• Submitting a waitlist page — most catalogues reject placeholders
• Choosing the biggest category instead of the one a buyer browses
• Letting the platform truncate the description before the differentiator
• Not recording which email account owns the listing
• Never checking whether the link is followed

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 SaasHunt fits

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.

Submit your product

Pitch the resource, not the company

A resource list adds links that are useful to its readers. That makes the pitch about a page rather than a product.

Say which page, what it answers, and why the list's reader would want it. One paragraph is enough.

Which page you are offering

Usually not the homepage. A guide, a calculator, a template, a reference page — something with standalone utility.

Choosing the page is the work; the email is five sentences.

Why editors add links

Because a reader asked for something the list did not have, or because the editor found a page better than the one it replaced. Usefulness is the criterion.

Company prestige is not a criterion, which is why product pitches get ignored.

Reading as a researcher

The audience arrives mid-research with a question. They are not comparing vendors and not browsing a feed.

A page that answers a question is what serves them, and the listing is a pointer to it.

What makes a page resource-worthy

It has to stand alone: readable without a signup, useful without context, and specific enough that a list can describe it in one line.

If the page is a lead magnet behind a form, it is not a resource.

If only the homepage is added

That happens, and it is still a citation. Record it as such and do not expect the editor to link deeper later.

If the resource matters, pitch it separately with a direct URL.

What this listing is worth

One referring domain, occasionally a small amount of research-stage traffic, and a link from a page that may rank for years.

Worth ten minutes if a genuine resource exists, worth nothing if the pitch is the homepage.

The pitch email, three sentences

What the page is, who it helps, and the URL. Nothing else — editors read the first sentence and decide.

If the resource needs a paragraph of explanation to sound useful, it is probably not a resource yet.

FAQ

Do resource lists pass link equity?

If the link is followed, yes — and editorial inclusion carries more weight than a paid listing.

Do resource lists pass equity?

If the link is followed, yes — and editorial inclusion carries more weight than a paid listing.

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