Submit to That AI Collection: Fields, Timeline and What You Get

That AI Collection is a curated set rather than an open catalog: fewer entries, an editorial reason for each. That makes rejection likelier and inclusion more meaningful.

The short answer

Most of the value in a That AI Collection listing is the description, not the listing. If the one line a visitor sees is generic, the page exists and nobody clicks it.

Before you touch the form

Read the collection end to end and pick the entry yours would stand next to. Curated sets grow one addition at a time, and a submission naming no neighbour asks the curator to do the thinking.

Submitting, in order

Read the collection's theme
Write the fit in two sentences
Name the closest existing entry
Submit with a logo
Wait; do not resubmit

What That AI Collection is

A curated collection of AI tools organised by theme, with editorial review before inclusion. The form itself is at thataicollection.com.

One thing that catches people out

Explain why the product belongs in this specific collection, not why it is good. Editors are curating a theme, not ranking products.

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

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Submit your product

The neighbour sentence

A curated set grows by addition, and every addition has to sit beside something. The single most useful thing you can write in the form is the name of the entry yours belongs next to, and one sentence on what it adds that the neighbour does not.

That sentence does two jobs. It proves you read the collection, and it gives the curator the framing they will need anyway when they add you. Submissions that skip it ask an editor to do your thinking, which is the most common reason a good product does not get in.

Rejection is the normal outcome

Small collections reject most of what arrives, not because the products are bad but because the set is deliberately short. Treating a rejection as a verdict on the product is the wrong reading, and it leads founders to resubmit the same copy, which converts a soft no into a hard one.

Ask once, politely, whether the fit was wrong or the writing. Then wait a quarter and return with something new to say — a capability, a use case, a benchmark. Curators remember the submissions that improved.

What a curated collection is actually looking for

Theme coherence first, usefulness second, novelty third. A tool that is excellent but thematically adjacent is harder to include than a slightly weaker tool that completes a group.

Which means the submission should describe the gap the product fills in the collection, not the product's overall quality. Quality is assumed; the curator is choosing which shape the set takes next.

After inclusion, the useful part

A listing in a small collection is a credibility signal rather than a traffic source, so the work afterwards is to use it: add the badge to your site, mention it in the next changelog, and check the page once a quarter.

Then leave it alone. Curated listings are stable by nature, and the only thing that damages them is editing your own submission into something the curator would not have accepted.

If you are on the fence about submitting

Submit. Curated collections charge nothing and reject most entries, so the cost is fifteen minutes and the downside is an email. The asymmetry is worth taking, provided you write the neighbour sentence properly rather than sending a paragraph about how good the product is.