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BetaList is the place for early adopters to discover new internet startups—pre-launch, in beta, or already live—and for startup founders to share their startup with the world and get early users and feedback.

No. We feature pre-launch waitlists and private betas, and just as often products that are already launched and live. What matters is that your startup is new to our audience, not whether it has launched. Products that are already widely known or have had significant press coverage aren't a fit. See our submission criteria for details.

Please review our submission guidelines and submit your startup.

If you are a new startup and match our submission guidelines you'll probably want to submit your startup for a regular review (see above). If you don't match the guidelines or want additional exposure you can have a look at our advertising packages.

We offer API access on a case-by-case basis. To request access, please reach out through our contact form and include: (1) what you plan to use the API for, (2) your intended use case, and (3) estimated request volume. We review each request individually to ensure the API is used appropriately. Once approved, you'll receive an API key and access to our API documentation.

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All submissions are paid. There is no free submission option. Current plans and prices are shown at the end of the submission form. If your startup isn't selected, you get a full refund automatically.

No. BetaList used to offer free submissions, but all submissions now require payment. See the submission form for current plans. If a startup isn't selected, the payment is refunded in full automatically.

Every featured startup gets a permanent, hand-edited listing in front of early adopters, founders, and investors (500,000+ pageviews a month), a do-follow backlink from a DR 76 domain, and UTM-tagged traffic you can track in your own analytics. Faster plans also guarantee a spot in our newsletter to 70,000+ subscribers. It's a one-time payment, not a subscription, and if your startup isn't selected you get a full refund automatically, so you only pay when you're featured.

Payment is charged when you choose a plan and complete checkout. Our editorial team then reviews your startup. You'll get an email with the decision. If accepted, we feature it on the timeline for your plan. If it isn't selected, you receive a full refund automatically.

We feature technology startups that are new to our audience—pre-launch, in beta, or already live—with a clear value proposition, a good design, and an innovative idea. Your startup must have its own domain—we don't accept submissions using free hosting subdomains (like vercel.app, netlify.app, herokuapp.com) or direct links to app stores. See our full submission criteria for details.

No. Our criteria reflect what works for our audience, so startups that don't meet them tend not to perform well even when featured. You're welcome to resubmit later if you've changed things to better fit the guidelines.

Visit your dashboard. If you don't see your submission, make sure you are signed in with the same account as you used when submitting your startup.

It depends on the plan you paid for. The expected timeline is shown when you choose a plan and in your confirmation email. Review happens before featuring; if your startup isn't selected, you get a full refund.

Plans differ mainly by how quickly your startup is featured and whether newsletter inclusion is guaranteed. See the submission form for the current options. All plans include a do-follow backlink if featured, and a full refund if not selected. All submissions must still meet our submission guidelines.

Yes. If you've already submitted on a lower plan and want faster featuring or newsletter inclusion, you can upgrade from your dashboard.

If your startup is not selected, you will receive a full refund automatically. Once your startup has been featured, refunds are not available.

Refunds are processed automatically when your submission is not selected. It can take 5–10 business days for the refund to appear on your statement, depending on your bank.

We receive thousands of submissions every month. We prioritize startup submissions that have a clear value proposition, have an idea we haven't seen before, and have a well-designed landing page, because these are the things that our audience is looking for. You are welcome to resubmit in the future if you've improved on these things and think you are a better fit. Unfortunately we're not able to provide specific feedback on individual submissions.

Yes, you are welcome to resubmit your startup in the future if you've made improvements based on our submission guidelines. Focus on improving your value proposition, design, and uniqueness before resubmitting.

The Trending Startups section on the homepage showcases the most popular, recently featured startups. We take a few metrics in mind, including how many tweets a startup post has received. We're not disclosing the exact algorithm, but the more engagement your startup post receives, the higher its chances of getting trending.

Whether newsletter inclusion is guaranteed depends on the plan you chose. Check your confirmation email or dashboard. When it isn't guaranteed, the newsletter only includes the most popular featured startups. It takes at least 24 hours between a startup getting featured and being included in the newsletter so we can fairly determine popularity.

The "Visit Site" button on your listing points to a betalist.com address that redirects visitors to your website. That lets us count the clicks we send you and tag them with utm_source=betalist and ref=betalist, so the visits show up in your own analytics. It also keeps your URL out of our pages, so bots that scrape launch directories for spam and cold outreach don't get a ready-made list of new startups to target. You still get the full backlink. The redirect is a permanent 301, and Google passes link credit through permanent redirects to the destination, so the SEO value lands on your domain. The link is do-follow too; it does not use rel="nofollow". Some SEO tools show the BetaList URL in their reports instead of yours. That is a limitation of the tool, not lost link value.

We automatically add UTM tracking parameters to links to your website, so you can track traffic from BetaList using Google Analytics or similar tools. Check your analytics dashboard for traffic from source "betalist".

Visit your dashboard and click Request changes on your submission (once you're featured, it's in the "..." menu next to it). You can update the icon, name, pitch, description, website URL, and images. Most edits are approved automatically within minutes; the rest are reviewed by our team.

Yes, as long as it is still the same startup. Rebrands and pivots are fine. The one rule for moving to a new domain is that your old URL must redirect to your new one; we check this when you submit the edit. If the old URL does not redirect, whether it still serves something else, is parked, or is gone, the change is not approved. Reusing a listing for a different startup is not allowed; submit it separately instead. If you lost control of your old domain, contact us before editing.

We generally only feature each startup once, with one exception: if you were previously featured as a pre-launch startup you're eligible to get featured again when you launch.

No, we never share, sell, or publicize your contact information. We don't include email addresses in your public listing. If you receive sales or promotional emails after being featured, it's likely because service providers scrape startup directories (including BetaList) for leads and find publicly available contact information on your own website or social media profiles. Unfortunately, this is common practice in the industry and there's nothing we can do to prevent third parties from finding information you've made public elsewhere.

Visit the homepage and click the sign up button at the top right.

You can view, customize, and download all your invoices from the billing page. There you can add company details, VAT ID, and custom notes before downloading your PDF receipts.

For security reasons, you must first sign in to verify your identity. Once signed in, visit your settings page where you can request to delete your account. We cannot help with account deletion via email without you being signed in, as we need to verify you are who you say you are.

For security reasons, you must first sign in to verify your identity. Once signed in, visit your dashboard where you can request to delete your submission. We cannot delete submissions via email without you being signed in, as we need to verify you are the owner of the submission.