Before you submit your startup, it's important to become familiar with the criteria that we use to review all startups. We've highlighted some of the most important criteria that cause startups to get rejected to help you better prepare your startup before submitting it for review.
Your product should be only recently launched or still be unreleased.
If your product has already received press coverage it's less likely to be accepted.
Each startup gets two opportunities to be featured. Once pre-launch, and once during launch. There should be at least a few weeks between those posts.
Our audience visits BetaList to discover new technology startups. It's not the right place to promote your blog, newsletter, online store, etc.
Using a template doesn't inspire confidence and result in less sign ups than expected. For this reason we do not allow templates or pages with little product information.
We realise not every startup has the budget to hire a world-class designer, but you should have a decent looking landing page for us to feature you as you wouldn't get much benefit from that kind of publicity otherwise.
Read our guide: Designing your landing page
There's no point in getting featured on BetaList if our audience can't sign up. Asking our audience to simply send you an email to request access would result in a very low conversion rate and therefore isn't considered a viable option. Other ways to stay in touch might be permissible, but we generally recommend just adding a standard email sign up form.