Submit by Hand

I did this by hand for a launch this week, and two things stood out that might be worth building into the report: For the free tier, the blocking step is almost never the form - it's a crawlable dofollow backlink on your own site. twelve.tools, Dang.ai and Fazier all require one, and all three read the server-rendered HTML: a badge injected by JS, or by a client-only component that hydrates late, fails silently with no error explaining why. Verification is also flaky enough that "submitted" isn't the right terminal state. twelve.tools said it couldn't detect the badge and then passed on a re-check a few minutes later; Dang.ai's verifier sat in Pending well past the submission. A "needs re-verification" state with a retry button would match what actually happens. Do you re-check the backlink once the listing is live? That's the failure that bites two months later, when someone redesigns a footer.