Submit to Startup Fame: Fields, Timeline and What You Get

Startup Fame is a startup showcase: submit the company, get a profile page with a description and links. It belongs in the same bucket as a business directory rather than a launch platform.

The short answer

Startup Fame belongs in the batch, not in the plan. Ten of these in one sitting costs an hour; treating each one as an event costs a week for the same dozen listings.

Before you touch the form

Check whether the profile supports a product description or only a company one. Company profiles rank for company names; product profiles rank for what buyers search.

A startup and business showcase that publishes company profiles with descriptions, categories and links, aimed at founders looking for visibility and citations. Sign-up and submission both happen on the catalogue’s own site.

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

Decide company versus product listing
Gather founded date, location and category
Write 220 characters on the product's job
Upload a square logo with transparency
Confirm the profile page is indexable

One thing that catches people out

Company-profile directories reward completeness. Fill in every optional field — founded date, location, category, social links — because those fields are what make the page look legitimate to a visitor and to a crawler.

Mistakes that waste the submission

Submitting before the pricing page exists
Filing the product under a category with no comparable tools in it
Reusing a logo that fails the card’s aspect ratio
Never returning to the listing, so a broken link stays broken
Counting citations as link equity

Checking what you actually got

Load the listing in a private window, as a stranger would
Check the screenshot or logo renders at the size the card expects
Inspect the outbound link, not the button, if it routes through a redirect
After six weeks, run a site: query on the listing URL
Record followed or not followed — that field predicts value

Where SaasHunt fits

The other half of this decision is timing. SaasHunt takes submissions for a fixed 08:00 UTC go-live, so the listing goes on a calendar instead of a hope list. Approved listings are dofollow; paid tiers from $9.9 skip the queue, and $49 adds a newsletter slot.

SaasHunt

Company profile or product profile

These are different pages with different queries. A company profile ranks for the company name; a product profile ranks for what buyers search.

Find out which one the form produces before writing, because the copy is not interchangeable.

What each ranks for

Company names, founder names and location queries are low volume and high intent for due diligence. Product queries carry the buying intent.

If both are available, fill both; if only one, choose the product unless the company is the brand.

Filling every field

Founded date, location, category, social links, description. Completeness is what makes a profile look legitimate to a visitor and resolvable to a crawler.

Empty fields read as an abandoned company, which is the opposite of the intended impression.

Why completeness matters to a crawler

A profile with consistent metadata — name, location, founding year, website — helps search engines resolve the entity behind the domain.

That is a slow, unglamorous benefit, and it is the main reason these directories exist.

Metadata consistency

The founding year on your site, your register and the directory should match. Aggregators copy profile data, and inconsistencies propagate for years.

Pick canonical facts once and reuse them everywhere.

Updating annually

Open the profile once a year and compare it with the current site. Descriptions drift, categories get renamed, addresses change.

Fifteen minutes keeps a permanent page accurate.

The citation

One referring domain, one indexed profile, occasional brand-search impressions. That is the return, and it is worth the ten minutes.

Expecting traffic from a company profile is a category error, not a failure of the directory.

Two profiles, one company

If the catalogue offers both a company page and a product page, fill both with the same canonical facts. Divergent descriptions across two pages on one domain read as two different companies.

That consistency is also what entity resolution depends on.