The Shipybara Alternative That Does Its Own Submitting

Shipybara pricing: $1.99 to $3.30 a directory

The three rungs are $99 for 30, $149 for 60 and $199 for 100+, which is $3.30, $2.48 and $1.99 per directory. Submitator sells the same three counts at $29, $49 and $79, so about 97 cents, about 82 cents and 79 cents each: roughly 3.4, 3.0 and 2.5 times less at every rung, and their entry package is $20 more than our largest plan. Only the top tier carries a struck-through price, $249, and we found no copy of any Shipybara or LaunchDirectories pricing page, live or archived, where $249 was the amount being charged. One small mismatch worth knowing before you click: the tier reads "100+ Directories" on the card, while the checkout product it opens is named "Shipybara: seo: 90 directories".

The service is LaunchDirectories, and the page says so

Credit first, because it's unusual: Shipybara names its provider on the same page where it takes your money, and charges LaunchDirectories' own list price rather than a marked-up one. The consequence is that LaunchDirectories' terms describe the work Shipybara is reselling, and they leave nothing to interpretation. Directory selection, in their words, is "made entirely at our discretion", on criteria they list, including domain rating, traffic and relevance. Then comes a clause of its own: "No Client Selection: You cannot choose specific directories, request particular directories to be included or excluded, or influence our directory selection process". Product Hunt is out by policy too, stated just as plainly: "We intentionally skip high-impact platforms like Product Hunt, as these launches deserve your personal touch."

Five to seven days here, four to six there

The two sites don't agree on how long the job takes. Shipybara's FAQ says submissions are "typically completed within 5-7 business days after purchase"; the company doing the work says "The submission process typically takes 4-6 business days." Small gap, but it tells you the reseller isn't quoting from the same sheet. The archived copies show a little drift in the other direction as well. In November 2025 the credit line read "Service provided by our partner"; by the February 2026 copy and on the live page in July 2026, the words "our partner" are gone. That same November block sold the service under two bullets, "Permanent Results" and "These listings work forever - customers find you months later", and neither survives on the current page.

A free dofollow, described two different ways

Shipybara's own board is worth a look, because it's where the SEO Package's promised "High authority backlink" lands. The free launch tier lists "Dofollow backlink (Top 3 or badge)", and the FAQ repeats it as a choice: a free launch gets the link "if they finish in the top 3 or receive a badge". The about page describes the same thing as one condition stacked on another: "The top 3 launches each week receive exclusive badges and a high-authority dofollow backlink. The dofollow backlink is granted when you embed the badge with a dofollow link to the Shipybara website on your landing page." Read the card and it's either-or; read the about page and you finish in the top three and then link back. Either way $18 Premium buys past it with a "Guaranteed dofollow backlink". We sampled 120 of the 1,089 project pages in their sitemap in July 2026 and read the rel attribute on each outbound product link: 89 were rel="noopener nofollow" and 31 were rel="noopener". Roughly three in four of the listings we looked at were nofollowed. Free and premium listings render identically, so we couldn't tell which of them were paid. Their attributes, their call and they can change them whenever they like.

A badge decides their links. Nobody else's badge gets a mention.

That last section is the interesting part, because on Shipybara a badge doesn't just decorate a listing: on the about page's reading it's the switch that turns the free dofollow on. So the mechanic is thoroughly understood here. Now open the Directory Submission block and look for it. Every occurrence of the word badge on that page sits in Shipybara's own footer row or its own launch tiers, and not one falls inside the service block or either of its two FAQ answers. The deliverable named there is "Complete report provided". That silence costs you the strongest free listings on the market, because Startup Fame (DR 83), Fazier (DR 81) and Turbo0 (DR 79) each want their badge on your site before the free listing goes live. Submitator installs one badge component once, keeps every directory's badge live and offers an invisible option, on every plan including the $29 one.

No refund for this one, and no company on the paperwork

Shipybara's Terms of Service contain no occurrence of the word refund, and the only refund sentence we found on the site is pointed at a different product: "We do not offer refunds for the SEO Growth Package. Once purchased, the service is considered final and non-refundable.", after which the same answer offers to work closely with you throughout. For the $99 to $199 submissions there was nothing on the pricing page, the homepage or either legal document when we checked in July 2026. Those same Terms name no legal entity, no governing law and no jurisdiction, and checkout runs through Dodo Payments as merchant of record, so the only identified company on the receipt is the payment processor. The contrast that matters isn't with us, it's with their own provider: LaunchDirectories publishes a trading name, a street address in Poznań, a VAT number, Polish governing law and a complaints route, and its no-refund-once-started position is a lawful EU carve-out you tick a checkbox to accept before paying. Our 30 days is a commercial promise we chose to make on top of whatever statutory rights you already have. Both of those are honest positions. The page taking your money has neither.

When Shipybara might fit

To be fair: the board itself is real, at DR 52 by FrogDR's reading in July 2026, with 1,089 project pages in its sitemap and a launch every Monday. Naming your provider on your own pricing page is a genuinely honest move that most resellers skip, and charging that provider's list price rather than a markup is another. LaunchDirectories is a serious operator: fully identified, manual submission and a report that hands back live links, screenshots and the login credentials for every account it creates, which is more than most services at that price publish. If you want a Monday launch slot and a hands-off directory run in the same place, and you genuinely don't care which directories you land on, buying both from one checkout is a reasonable convenience. The best alternative to Shipybara's submission service is the one that hands you the list instead: Submitator is the better fit when you want to name the directories, want the badge-gated ones opened rather than unmentioned and want the company you paid to be the company doing the work.