How to Submit to ThisTool: A 2026 Walkthrough

ThisTool is a general tool directory with an AI-heavy catalog. Standard mechanics: pick a subcategory, write a short card, verify the link.

The short answer

Treat ThisTool 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 ThisTool is

A tools directory with category navigation, short descriptions and outbound links. The form itself is at thistool.com.

Before you touch the form

Draft the opening clause as the differentiator and keep everything after it plain. General directories place your entry beside unrelated tools, and the first clause is the only part read in that company.

Submitting, in order

Write the first clause as the differentiator
Keep the rest factual
Choose a category with space
Submit with a logo
Verify the link

One thing that catches people out

Rewrite the first sentence, not the whole description. Truncation is the enemy, and the first clause is what survives on every card.

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

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

The first clause survives truncation

Cards cut copy at around eighty characters, and search snippets cut at a different point again. Only the opening clause is guaranteed to be read in both places, which makes it the whole of your copy for most visitors.

Write it as a claim a competitor could not paste into their own listing. "Invoicing for contractors" is pastable by forty companies; "invoices that file themselves from a shared inbox" is not.

What a general directory does to a specific product

A general catalogue places your entry beside things with nothing in common with it: a password manager next to a design tool next to yours. Context that would help on a specialised site does nothing here.

The consequence is that the copy has to stand alone. No references to a category the reader already knows, no assumed vocabulary, no comparisons to products they have not heard of. One sentence, plain language, one benefit.

Choosing a category with space in it

General directories usually have both crowded and empty subcategories. Crowded means the page gets traffic and your entry lands on page three of it. Empty means you are alone on a page nobody visits.

The better bet is the third option: a subcategory with fifteen to forty entries that appears in search for its own name. It is small enough that a visitor reaches your card, and established enough that the page exists in the index.

One logo, five aspect ratios

Every catalogue crops images differently, and a logo that assumes a square will be stretched or letterboxed somewhere in the batch. Prepare two files before submitting: a square at 512 pixels and a wide one at 1200 by 630.

That single piece of preparation removes the most common visual defect across forty submissions — the one nobody tells you about, because it is only visible on the card.

What to check a week later

Open the listing in a private window, look at the rendered card rather than the raw page, and confirm the link resolves to your canonical URL. Then leave it alone for a quarter.

A general directory will not send much traffic. It will send a steady trickle of people searching for the exact phrase in your first clause, which is why that clause mattered more than the rest of the description.