PLATFORM SUBMISSION GUIDE

Awesome Indie

A relevant listing opportunity for startups, indie products, and productivity tools that can add product exposure and an external link.

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VERIFICATIONHuman reviewed

The platform guide has been reviewed by a person.

Last verified · October 2026
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CostFree option
Review timeWithin 48 hours
Domain Rating28
PublishingScheduled date
01PREPARATION CHECKLIST

Know the fields before you open the form.

Prepare the information below using the saved platform configuration. Required labels reflect that configuration; confirm the current form before submitting.

01

Product name

Required
Input
Short text
Form step
General
02

Product URL slug

Required
Input
Short text
Form step
General
Requirements
The path on awesomeindie.com, not the website URL. Confirm the generated slug before review submission; it becomes fixed after submission.
03

Website

Required
Input
Website URL
Form step
General
04

Tagline

Required
Input
Short text
Form step
General
05

Description

Required
Input
Long text
Form step
General
Requirements
Use factual plain-text paragraphs; blank lines separate paragraphs.
06

Categories

Required
Input
Choose multiple options
Form step
General
Requirements
Choose between one and five categories from the actual 151-option list.
Options
Accessibility · Accounting · Advertising · AI Agents · AI Coding · AI Image · AI Video · AI Writing · Analytics · Analyzers · Animation · API · Art · Artificial Intelligence · Audio · Augmented Reality · Authentication · Automation · Backend · Beauty · Blockchain · Boilerplates · Books · Bots · Branding · Browser Extension · Calendar · Cars · Chatbots · CMS · Color · Cookies · Cooking · Creator Economy · CRM · Crowdfunding · CSS Tools · Customer Support · Data Manipulation · Database · Delivery · Design · Developer Tools · DevOps · Directories · Domain Name · Drones · E-Commerce · Education · Email · Emojis · Emulator · Engineering · Events · Fashion · Fintech · Fitness · Fonts · Forms · Freelance · Frontend · Funny · Games · Git · Growth · Hardware · Health · Home · HTML · HTTP · Icons · Illustration · Image · Instagram · Internet of Things · Investing · JavaScript · Jewelry · Jobs · JSON · Legal · Lifestyle · Linux · Maps · Markdown · Marketing · Medical · Meditation · Meetings · Messaging · Mobile · Money · Monitoring · Movies · Music · Network · News · Newsletter · No Code · Nomad · Open Source · Outdoors · Party · Payments · PDF · Performance · Pets · Photography · Politics · Privacy · Productivity · Project Management · QR Code · Regular Expression · Remote Work · Restaurant · Robots · Ruby · SaaS · Sales · Science · Security · SEO · Snapchat · Social Media · Space · Sports · Spreadsheets · Startup · Streaming · SVG · System Administration · Tech · Terminal · Testing · Time Management · Translation · Transportation · Travel · Typography · Unicode · User Experience · Venture Capital · Video · Virtual Assistant · Virtual Reality · Wallpaper · Wearables · Weather · Web Scraping · Writing
07

Pricing model

Optional
Input
Choose one option
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional product pricing model. Leaving all choices unset hides it; a free tier is not the same as a free trial.
Options
Free · Freemium · Paid
08

Currency

Optional
Input
Choose one option
Form step
Details
Options
USD · EUR · GBP · CAD · AUD · NZD · CHF · SEK · NOK · DKK · PLN · CZK · JPY · KRW · CNY · INR · SGD · HKD · BRL · MXN · ZAR · TRY
09

Starting price

Optional
Input
Short text
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional cheapest paid plan above the free tier. Use verified actual figures; leave blank if unstated.
10

Billing period

Optional
Input
Choose one option
Form step
Details
Requirements
The destination labels are per month, per year and one-time. Confirm the real billing period.
Options
per month · per year · one-time
11

Pricing page

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional actual pricing-page URL; do not guess a route.
12

Free trial

Optional
Input
Checkbox
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional trial or money-back period on a paid plan. Use Clear to leave it unstated. No duration field appeared when enabled.
13

Platforms

Optional
Input
Choose multiple options
Form step
Details
Options
Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows · Linux · Browser extension · Command line · API
14

Feature 1

Optional
Input
Short text
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional feature 1 of at most six.
15

Feature 2

Optional
Input
Short text
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional feature 2 of at most six.
16

Feature 3

Optional
Input
Short text
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional feature 3 of at most six.
17

Feature 4

Optional
Input
Short text
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional feature 4 of at most six.
18

Feature 5

Optional
Input
Short text
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional feature 5 of at most six.
19

Feature 6

Optional
Input
Short text
Form step
Details
Requirements
Optional feature 6 of at most six.
20

Open source

Optional
Input
Checkbox
Form step
Details
Requirements
Confirm only if the code is public. Add the actual repository under Links; Clear leaves the claim unstated.
21

Logo

Required
Input
Image upload
Form step
Media
Requirements
Required. A square logo works best; PNG/JPG/WebP/GIF up to 5 MB.
Image requirements
Up to 5.0 MB · image/png · image/jpeg · image/webp · image/gif
22

Images

Required
Input
Image upload
Form step
Media
Requirements
One to three actual product screenshots, up to 5 MB each. The first is the cover.
Image requirements
Up to 5.0 MB
23

YouTube video

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Media
24

X

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
25

GitHub

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
26

LinkedIn

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
27

Instagram

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
28

Facebook

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
29

Threads

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
30

Bluesky

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
31

YouTube

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
32

TikTok

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
33

Pinterest

Optional
Input
Website URL
Form step
Links
Requirements
Optional real profile URL on this specific network; do not link to the network homepage.
02PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS

Before you submit

  • A public, usable product built by the submitting maker or team
  • Name ≤40 characters, slug ≤96, tagline ≤64 and description ≤2500
  • One to five categories, required logo and one to three product images
  • Only verified optional pricing, platforms, features and social links

Free launch. Optional Skip the Line $9.99, Boost $29.99 or Premium $49.99, once per product.

03PUBLISHING WORKFLOW

How to submit

  1. 01

    Sign in with Google. Maker-profile and community setup can be skipped. Open Submit a product.

  2. 02

    Enter the actual public website URL to generate a private draft, then inspect General. Correct fetched facts and confirm the product slug before review.

    Submission step 2
  3. 03

    Inspect Details, Media and Links. Optional financial and business claims must be factual; upload the required real logo and one to three screenshots.

    Submission step 3
  4. 04

    Use Submit for review only after checking the saved draft. Approval schedules the free launch; paid date selection is optional and still requires review. Record the final public URL.

04EXPECTED OUTPUT

What gets published

A scheduled product page with product details, media, optional pricing and platform badges, features, profile links, rankings and discussion.

Not suitable for

  • Products that are not live or cannot be accessed publicly
  • Products that clearly fall outside the destination eligibility criteria

The destination controls pricing, moderation and publication. DR is a recorded metric, not a guarantee of traffic or acceptance.

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