What problem does it solve?
This Skill eliminates the manual, error-prone work of submitting software products to relevant directories, ensuring you capture high-DR backlinks, improve product discovery, and avoid rejected submissions from poor positioning or unready assets.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Readiness Assessment: 9-point checklist to verify your product has required landing pages, assets, and content before submission to avoid wasted effort.
- Tiered Directory Selection: Curated lists of 70+ directories across 7 tiers (launch platforms, SaaS directories, AI directories, agent/MCP registries, no-code directories, listicles, integration marketplaces) matched to your product type.
- Per-Tier Positioning Variants: Custom description templates for each directory type to avoid duplicate content penalties and maximize acceptance rates.
- Product Hunt Launch Playbook: 3-week warm-up timeline, launch day execution rules, and post-launch recap steps to maximize day-one momentum.
- G2/Capterra Review Playbook: 10-in-30 protocol to generate the 10 reviews required for Grid appearance, plus guidance on badges and paid plans.
- GEO Optimization Tactics: Steps to optimize destination pages for AI citation from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
- Use Case: A founder launching a new AI writing tool can use this Skill to plan their full directory submission strategy, secure dofollow backlinks from high-DR sites, and rank for "best AI writing tool" queries in AI search engines.
Quick Start
Use the directory-submissions skill to create a complete 3-week directory submission plan for my new SaaS product, including readiness checks, tiered submission batches, and Product Hunt launch prep.