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So you have a new startup company and want some coverage. This post will give you 36 places where you can submit your startup for reviews, mentions or at least some backlinks.
When we launched our public beta in April, the first thing we wanted was some coverage on different startup blogs and websites. We didn’t have a PR company or a bunch of contacts, hence we needed to start from scratch.
So I took my sweet time Googling different websites that would take submissions, tips or published their editor’s email. Initially the list got pretty big, but I weeded out websites where you need to be way bigger to get mentioned (Mashable, Techcrunch and the like) or that charge money for a review.
We were pretty happy with the coverage we got and I thought I’ll save you some time by sharing my list.
2. Springwise
3. CrunchBase
4. GotoWeb2.0
5. StartupMeme
6. SimpleSpark
8. FeedMyApp
9. BigStartups
10. GreatWebApps
11. Wwwhatsnew
13. MakeUseOf
14. LaunchFeed
15. MoMB
16. Demo Girl
17. WebDev 2.0
18. DzineBlog
19. Sociable Blog
20. Emily Chang
21. Rev2
22. Ziipa
23. On The App
24. Next Web App
25. DIY Startup News
26. AppUseful
27. Startup Booster
28. Paggu
29. Robin Speziale
30. Submit Startup
31. TechHotSpot
32. YouNoodle
33. Lovely Pages
35. TechPluto
36. Netted
Update:
Suggestions from the readers
37. Hacker News (thanks Jacques Mattheij)
38. The Atlantic Technology Channel (thanks Alexis)
39. Appsumo (thanks Noah)
40. Appvita (thanks Sergi)
41. Techattitude (thanks Precog)
42. Minisprout (thanks Alex)
42. Startuplift (thanks Pete)
Know of any other good ones? Please add in the comments.
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Thanks, pretty useful.
Don’t forget your good friends at The Atlantic Technology Channel. Particularly if you’ve got something with some social depth: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/
Thanks for publishing this great list! Will definitely come in handy! Did you happen to use any of the free social media press release sites?
Thanks @Johan and @Alexis
@Kerstin No, we didn’t. I think we used a free traditional press release site (without results). We also sent out a press release manually, targeting specific magazines & newspapers. No luck with that either :)
MO.com does entrepreneur interviews with people at all stages – starting to successful. If you feel you have a good story to tell that would interest our readers drop us a line (email me at my first name @ mo.com)
Wow, that’s quite a list. Are they in any particular order?
@Kevin Thanks for the tip
@Phil No, the list is unsorted.
Another good place for reviews is Appvita, and maybe http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
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http://www.techcrunch.com for sure, lots of exposure with minimal work.
Up late posting all about http://refynr.com on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn… now I’ll never get to sleep trying to post to all these places! Bookmarked and made into a TODO for “sometime soon” :D
Our blog Techattitude.com also covers on the recent startups. You can contact us through our contact page and get your startup reviewed.
Thanks, very good.
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http://www.chocobrain.com
Very usefull for creating attention and for generating backlinks.
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Great list to start with but if you are doing well as a startup you don’t need to submit.
Also dharmesh Shah’s onstartup blog – answer.onstartup.com is a very good place to submit
Wow! Thanks for doing all the donkey work to get this list together, saves the rest of us a lot of time :-)
Wow awesome list, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Thinking I might do a test with all of them and write a followup response post with a week of results. Do you have any data to share about your results with the various sites?
@Danielle We did get coverage with most of them. Maybe with hard follow-up and phonecalls could have gotten 100%. You can check our backlinks in Siteexplorer to see details.
Hey, great resource! It was as if you read my mind… Small suggestion. I already follow on twitter, but I’d like to retweet your post. Is it me, or do you have one?
amazing work………..thanks for sharing such a good resource :)
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Though I have been using 60% of the sites mentioned in the list, the list will be quite useful as a reference tool.
Janaki
Thanks everybody!
If you’re based in NYC, you can submit to the new york observer tech channel… ben popper is the lead blogger… bpopper [at] observer.com
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Net Rated is a good place to submit a website for ratings and reviews. They offer a “launch list” of recently launched and upcoming sites.
http://www.net-rated.com
Another suggestion: Mini Sprout
http://www.minisprout.com
You can also submit your site to http://techattitude.com for coverage.
Please add http://StartUpLift.com to your list.
Thanks,
Pete
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how about http://projects.metafilter.com/ ?
Thanks for compiling all these resources together for all of us entrepreneurs. This is very helpful. Now . . . to work on the pitch.
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Great list! Thank you for compiling this list – Helped socioclean get on the map!
I love helping out tech companies/writing reviews, just email me dartma@gmail.com. I love to chat.
My blog is dartma.tumblr.com, and my twitter is http://twitter.com/#!/Dartma
Best of luck
Dartma
Thanks for sharing the list, i have just started a new blog http://www.bestappsblogger.com can i send my articles to the above list for the press release?
Definitely not, its not for spamming.
I’d suggest taking a look at http://RateMyStartup.com
I received some valuable feedback from there as well as getting featured on their front page for almost 1 month!
My startup was rated 9.3 out 10 :-)
Helpful information, thanks for sharing it!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for compiling all this info! Starting up a business is hectic enough. Thanks for sharing. I’m finding that most of these are for tech companies though. Mine is a medical device company. Anyone ideas on sites more applicable to me?
I would recommend an addition to your list and its StartupTunes.com. It is a dedicated startup review blog. You can try submitting your startup at http://startuptunes.com/submit-new-startup/ with a nice description. If your startup qualify, they will write an extensive review on your new startup. Normally, they write 1 to 3 reviews per day only on quality websites. You can try it…
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You Can also submit at http://www.techhunger.com/submit-startup/
http://betali.st/submit :)
Great List — here are two more:
gust.com
vator.tv