Overview
Every launch guide says "submit to directories". None of them say which ones accept your kind of product, what the form will ask, or what actually happens after you hit submit. SubmitMap is that missing map: a free directory of launch platforms paired with a phased route of guides.
What a platform record holds
Each platform is a typed record rather than a name on a list. It carries who the platform accepts and what disqualifies a project, the exact steps its submission form walks you through, the fields and assets you will need before you start, the traps that cost people a run, how long approval takes in practice, and whether the outbound link is dofollow or nofollow. Everything in it was observed on the live site, not copied from the platform's own marketing.
The route
The guides arrange the directory into seven phases, running from getting a product launch-ready, through the free directories and the launch boards, to the paid channels a maker should only open last. The point is order: submitting to the right places in the wrong sequence wastes the one-shot launches.
For AI agents
SubmitMap speaks MCP. Connect an agent and it can work out what a product qualifies for, pull the brief for a specific platform's form, and fill that form in the maker's own browser. Searching platforms, reading a platform record and qualifying a project are free and need no account.
Pricing and plans
The directory, the guides and the qualification checks are free and need no account. A paid plan at 29 dollars a month, 190 a year or 250 once adds the dashboard and the MCP tools that track projects and submissions.
No platform pays for placement, on any plan. Editorial usefulness is the whole moat.
