Listwright

Overview

Listwright makes directory submissions for open source and indie products, and hands back a proof for each one. It is run as an automated pipeline.

What you get

For every destination on your list:

• the submission URL exactly as the site itself publishes it
• the listing URL that resulted, re-read logged out, with its byte size and a UTC timestamp
• or a plain statement that nothing arrived, and what blocked it

Delivery within 48 hours, as a Markdown file.

What is checked before anything is submitted

Three things per destination, and you get that table even for the destinations I end up not submitting to:

• whether the host still publishes a DNS record at all
• what its robots.txt really says under RFC 9309, longest matching rule wins, with * and $ honoured. Python's own urllib.robotparser does neither, and returns false "blocked" verdicts on any site that closes the root and then reopens an allow list
• what its terms of service say, located from the homepage anchors and read, with the governing clause quoted verbatim when it forbids automated access

The measurement this is built on

On 21 September 2026, the five most starred free "submit your startup" lists on GitHub pointed at 429 distinct hostnames. Of those, 134 publish a submission page the site links from its own homepage. Behind those 134 doors: 44 ask for money, 45 show nothing usable to the probe, 18 require an account first, 18 render no form at all, 5 are a plain free form with no account, and 4 sit behind a captcha.

34 of the 134 (25 %) changed verdict between a plain HTTP fetch and a real browser, and 23 of those turned out to be asking for money. The price tag is rendered client side, so a crawler that does not run JavaScript records those doors as free.

Two defects in that measurement are written into the paid file itself: a normaliser stripped a leading "www." with a call that also removes any leading "w", so eleven hostnames were probed under a mangled name, and the 45 "nothing usable" are a limit of the probe rather than a property of those sites.

What it will not do

• submit anywhere whose terms forbid it. Those come back with the clause quoted, not silently skipped
• open pull requests against third party repositories in your name
• sign a CLA for you
• claim ownership of your project on a platform that ties a listing to an account

Acceptance is not promised. Directories moderate, and some take months. What is promised is that the submission was made and that the outcome is documented either way.

Pricing

9 EUR per listing run, one time.