Yaro

@5thwye_

DeveloperAI EngineerMarketer

I build SubmitMap: a directory of launch platforms and a phased route of guides that tell indie hackers where to submit a product and exactly how. Free to read, no account needed.

submitmap.com FifthWye 5thwye_

1ship

7crew

Why I build

I kept hitting the same wall at the end of every build. The product was done, and then came the part nobody writes down: where do you actually put it, which of those links is worth an hour, and what does each form want from you. So I started keeping notes. Which platforms have real traffic, what they reject on sight, the gotcha that costs you a resubmission. The notes turned into SubmitMap: a directory of launch platforms plus guides in the order you'd actually do them, free to read, no account needed. The part I care about most is the boring accuracy. Anyone can list 400 directories. Knowing which twelve are worth your evening, and exactly what each one asks for, is the work. Lately I've been pushing it further: connect SubmitMap to an AI agent over MCP and it does the submitting itself, one form at a time, with each form's traps written down for it in advance. I build alone, in public, mostly with Claude Code. If you're about to launch something and don't know where to send it, that's who I made this for.

Yaro

Milestone2mo agoSubmitMap

194 platforms to 829, and 435 forms filled in by hand

Three weeks ago SubmitMap listed 194 launch platforms. It lists 829 now, and 435 of those are ones I have submitted to myself, because the only way to write down what a form asks for is to fill it in. Two things that kept showing up: A lot of directories hide their free lane. The pricing page says $99 and the form has a free option three steps in, usually behind a badge their bot checks for in your footer before it will let you press submit. Read only the pricing page and you conclude there is no free tier, and you are wrong about a third of the time. What a submission costs your inbox is worth knowing before you make it. 146 listings now record what actually arrived at the address I submitted with: a receipt, a newsletter, or a sender running several supposedly independent directories at once. Observed from real mail, never guessed, and blank where I have not watched. Also new: paste a URL at submitmap.com/scan and it works out what your product qualifies for. No account. Still free to read, still no email wall, still nobody pays for placement.

Yaro

@5thwye_

DeveloperAI EngineerMarketer

I build SubmitMap: a directory of launch platforms and a phased route of guides that tell indie hackers where to submit a product and exactly how. Free to read, no account needed.

submitmap.com FifthWye 5thwye_

1ship

7crew

Why I build

I kept hitting the same wall at the end of every build. The product was done, and then came the part nobody writes down: where do you actually put it, which of those links is worth an hour, and what does each form want from you. So I started keeping notes. Which platforms have real traffic, what they reject on sight, the gotcha that costs you a resubmission. The notes turned into SubmitMap: a directory of launch platforms plus guides in the order you'd actually do them, free to read, no account needed. The part I care about most is the boring accuracy. Anyone can list 400 directories. Knowing which twelve are worth your evening, and exactly what each one asks for, is the work. Lately I've been pushing it further: connect SubmitMap to an AI agent over MCP and it does the submitting itself, one form at a time, with each form's traps written down for it in advance. I build alone, in public, mostly with Claude Code. If you're about to launch something and don't know where to send it, that's who I made this for.

Yaro

Milestone2mo agoSubmitMap