Submit Your Developer Tool: 7 Free Places to Get Listed

Building a developer tool takes time. Getting people to discover it can take even longer.

You might have created a useful API, CLI, browser extension, database utility, open-source library, AI coding tool, monitoring product, or developer-focused SaaS. But unless developers know it exists, even a strong product can struggle to find its first users.

One simple way to improve discovery is to submit your developer tool to relevant product directories and launch communities.

The goal isn’t to collect hundreds of random backlinks. It is to place your product where developers, makers, and early adopters already look for software.

If you’re ready to submit your developer tool, here are seven places where you can start without paying for a basic presence.

1. ProgrammerNeeds

We’ll start with our own platform.

ProgrammerNeeds is a curated product discovery platform for independent developers, makers, and founders. Developer tools sit alongside products in productivity, AI, finance, marketing, and other software categories.

Submitting a product is free, and approved products receive their own dedicated listing page.

ProgrammerNeeds is particularly suitable for products such as APIs, SaaS applications, developer utilities, open-source projects, database tools, automation products, and side projects.

When submitting, don’t describe your product with generic marketing phrases.

Instead of:

The ultimate solution for modern developers.

Try:

Automatically back up your Supabase database to Google Drive.

A developer should understand the core purpose of your product within a few seconds.

If you’ve already built something useful, you can submit it to ProgrammerNeeds for review.

2. Product Hunt

Product Hunt is one of the best-known platforms for launching new technology products.

Submitting and launching a product on Product Hunt is free. Makers can create a product page with a tagline, description, images, video, topics, and a maker comment explaining why they built the product.

For developer tools, Product Hunt works particularly well when the product is already usable and visually easy to demonstrate.

Don’t wait until launch morning to prepare everything. Create clean screenshots, write a simple value proposition, and make sure the product works before sending people to it.

Product Hunt also recommends participating as a genuine community member rather than asking people directly for upvotes.

Think of Product Hunt primarily as a launch channel, while directories can provide more persistent discovery afterward.

3. DevHunt

If your product is specifically designed for developers, DevHunt is one of the most relevant places to list it.

DevHunt focuses entirely on developer tools, and its 2026 report says more than 9,400 developer tools have been submitted since 2024.

A standard tool listing is currently free and gives the product a permanent DevHunt page. DevHunt charges separately if you want to participate in its weekly launch system, so it is important to distinguish the free listing from the paid launch option.

This makes it useful even if you aren’t ready to pay for promotion.

Because the audience is developer-focused, be specific about your technical use case. Mention supported frameworks, integrations, APIs, deployment options, open-source availability, or other details developers actually care about.

4. Peerlist Launchpad

Peerlist Launchpad can help you introduce a product to a community that already includes developers, designers, founders, and other technology professionals.

Launchpad currently runs weekly launches and describes itself as a place for projects to find early users and collect feedback from fellow developers and designers.

This is especially useful if you already have a Peerlist profile because visitors can connect the product with the person who built it.

Use real product screenshots rather than generic promotional graphics. Explain what problem you were trying to solve, what the product does differently, and who should use it.

For an early developer product, feedback from a small technical audience can sometimes be more valuable than a large number of passive visitors.

5. AlternativeTo

AlternativeTo is worth considering when your developer tool competes with an existing software product.

The platform is built around helping users discover alternatives. You can create an account, verify your email, and suggest a new application for review. Standard submissions enter the normal review queue, while AlternativeTo also offers an optional paid priority review.

The biggest opportunity here is search intent.

A person looking for an alternative to an existing API client, monitoring service, database tool, hosting platform, or productivity application already knows what kind of product they need.

If your tool provides a genuine alternative, that makes the listing much more meaningful.

AlternativeTo is selective, so provide complete and accurate information rather than submitting a thin landing page.

6. SaaSHub

SaaSHub focuses on software discovery, recommendations, alternatives, and product comparisons.

It accepts SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, apps, and many other software products through an approval process. SaaSHub currently also maintains a free submission resource covering more than 100 websites where founders can promote products.

For a developer tool, fill out relevant categories and competitors carefully.

Those details help a discovery platform understand where your product belongs and what other products a user may compare it against.

SaaSHub also requires products to be publicly released rather than simply being waitlist pages, so it is better suited to tools people can already use.

7. GitHub

GitHub isn’t a traditional product directory, but for an open-source developer tool it can be one of your most important discovery channels.

A strong repository can become both your technical documentation and your product page.

Write a clear README that answers the basic questions immediately: what does the tool do, why would someone use it, how do they install it, and what does an example look like?

Add relevant repository topics, screenshots where useful, installation instructions, examples, documentation, and a link to your main website.

Don’t assume developers will investigate an unclear repository simply because the code is public.

Make discovery easy.

Don’t Submit to Every Directory You Find

There are hundreds of websites that allow software submissions. That doesn’t mean your product belongs on all of them.

A directory with a relevant audience is more valuable than dozens of abandoned pages created only for backlinks.

Google’s spam policies also warn against link-building practices intended primarily to manipulate search rankings. So the purpose of submitting your developer tool should be real product discovery, not collecting as many links as possible.

Choose platforms that make sense for your users.

For most developer tools, a combination of a developer-specific platform such as DevHunt, a broader launch platform such as Product Hunt or Peerlist, a discovery platform such as ProgrammerNeeds, and a strong GitHub presence is a reasonable starting point.

Prepare Your Submission Once

Before you begin, prepare a small product submission kit.

You should have a clear product name, one-sentence tagline, short description, longer description, logo, screenshots, website URL, pricing information, and a simple explanation of who the product is for.

Then adapt that material to each platform instead of copying exactly the same description everywhere.

A DevHunt visitor may care about technical integrations. A Product Hunt visitor may need a faster overview. An AlternativeTo visitor wants to know why your product is a useful alternative.

The product stays the same, but the context changes.

Final Thoughts

If you’re looking for places to submit your developer tool, start with quality rather than quantity.

Create strong listings on a handful of relevant platforms, make the product easy to understand, and keep those listings updated as your tool improves.

A listing alone won’t build your business. But every relevant place where your product appears gives another developer an opportunity to discover it.

And if you’ve built a developer tool, SaaS product, open-source project, or useful side project, you can submit it to ProgrammerNeeds for review and give it another permanent place to be discovered.