Three Routes In. Their Own FAQ Says Two of Them Are Not Dofollow.
Written by Submitator. HUNT0 is one of the launch boards we file customers to, on both the free and the badge route, so read it as an interested party. Everything below is quoted from their live pages or measured from their product listings, and the footnote says exactly what was read and when.
HUNT0 is a weekly launch board rated 31 by Ahrefs, with 3,480 product pages and 155 maker profiles in its sitemap. It offers three ways to launch and every one of them is described on the pricing page in terms of the link you get, which is unusual and, mostly, welcome.
We read 80 product pages. All 80 carry a primary Website anchor pointing straight at the product's own domain, with no redirector in the path. 41 of them are rel="noopener" and therefore followed. 39 are rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" and are not. So about half the catalogue passes equity, and the half you land in depends on how you launch.
Which makes the pricing page the important document, and it contradicts itself. The cards promise a guaranteed dofollow on two routes. The FAQ underneath those cards says those same two routes are sponsored and nofollow.
| Route | Price | What the card says | What the FAQ says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Launch | $0 | First 20 community-ordered launches eligible for an ordinary link | Eligible, on community votes you do not control |
| Badge Launch | $0 | Guaranteed external Website link | badge links nofollow |
| Premium Launch | $16.90 | Featured listing + guaranteed external Website link | Premium links are marked sponsored |
The FAQ sentence is the specific one and it is the one that describes actual markup: "Premium links are marked sponsored and badge links nofollow; neither guarantees an ordinary dofollow link or a top ranking." Plan on that. Take the badge route for what it definitely buys, which is skipping a queue their own flow describes as up to 84 days and choosing your launch week, and treat the rel as unresolved until your listing is live and you have looked at it.
HUNT0 at a glance
| What you get | HUNT0 |
|---|---|
| Free Launch | $0, weekly community queue |
| Badge Launch | $0, Ahrefs DR above 10 plus their badge |
| Premium Launch | $16.90 one-time, was $29.90 |
| Measured link | Followed on 41 of 80, direct, no redirector |
| Domain Rating | 31 (Ahrefs) |
| Queue | Up to 84 days, per their own flow |
| The form | Six steps, sign-in required |
| Catalogue | 3,480 products, 155 makers |
| AI crawlers | GPTBot refused, OAI-SearchBot allowed |
| Filed for you by Submitator | Both routes, badge installed and kept live, from $29 |
Per hunt0.com, its /pricing, /badge, /explore and /launch pages, robots.txt and sitemap.xml, all read on 17 September 2026, together with the submission flow. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker, which returned 31. The sitemap holds 3,650 URLs, of which 3,480 are under /products/ and 155 under /makers/. Their robots.txt allows all paths except app routes (/api/, /settings, /dashboard, /admin, /payment, /reputation, /docs, /zh), carries the same rules for OAI-SearchBot, and gives GPTBot a blanket Disallow. The link finding is a sample, not a full census: 80 product pages, made up of the first 10 and last 10 URLs in sitemap order plus a seeded random sample of 60, each fetched successfully and parsed with an HTML parser rather than pattern-matched. The primary anchor was taken as the one whose visible text is Website or visit, and it was present on all 80 and pointed at the product's own domain every time with no redirector. 41 carry rel="noopener", 39 carry rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc", and none of the 80 pages is noindexed; ancillary links inside descriptions and the product's social links carry nofollow throughout. We also recorded the visible vote count on each page and it does not explain the split: both groups have a median of 0 votes, the followed group runs to 12 and the nofollow group to 4, so the determinant is not vote count in the state we observed it and we do not claim to know what it is. Tier names, prices and bullets are quoted from /pricing: "70 slots per week · first come, first served", "First 20 community-ordered launches eligible for an ordinary link", "Ahrefs DR above 10 + official HUNT0 badge", "Guaranteed external Website link" and "Featured listing + guaranteed external Website link"; the submission flow additionally reads "Guaranteed dofollow backlink" on both Badge and Premium and "Skip up to 84 days of waiting". The contradicting sentence is quoted verbatim from the FAQ carried on /pricing, /badge and /launch alike: "Premium links are marked sponsored and badge links nofollow; neither guarantees an ordinary dofollow link or a top ranking." We do not resolve which statement governs and nothing here alleges bad faith; a pricing card and an FAQ can drift apart on any site, this one included. Their weekly slot counters disagree across three pages, 70 in the flow and on the pricing card, "up to 80 free launch slots" in the pricing FAQ and "every day we open 10 free launch slots" on explore, and we reconcile none of them. Nothing was submitted, purchased or verified through their badge flow, so acceptance, queue behaviour in practice, refunds and what a live badge listing's rel turns out to be are outside what we can report. They state a refund policy handled case by case on contact; Submitator's terms state an aim of 2 to 3 days and a committed ETA of 30 days from purchase, so this page makes no speed comparison in either direction. Submitator files customers to HUNT0 on both the free and the badge route. Our plans are $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you with each Domain Rating shown and no-equity marked where it applies, badges installed and kept live, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
The badge is worth having anyway
Strip the rel question out and look at what the badge route actually buys, because it is not small. It costs $0, against $16.90 for the paid route. It skips a queue their own submission flow describes as up to 84 days. And it lets you choose your launch week instead of taking the next free slot, which on a board that runs seventy launches a week is the difference between launching when you are ready and launching twelve weeks after you were.
Their own name for the tier is the honest one: "Give a link. Get a link." That is the trade, and the entry price is two things. An Ahrefs Domain Rating above 10, which you can check against any domain including your own with our checker. And their badge, live on your site, at the moment they verify it.
That second requirement is the one that quietly decides whether a submission service can help you here. A form field is typing. A badge is a snippet that has to go into your repository, ship to production and then stay there, because verification is not a one-off: a redesign, a template change or a new developer can remove it months later and nobody tells you. That is what our badge component is for. You install one component once, every badge a directory in your plan asks for goes up through it and stays up, and when a directory changes its embed the component changes rather than your repo.
Only the free route can produce an ordinary link
Read the Free Launch card closely and the word that matters is eligible: "First 20 community-ordered launches eligible for an ordinary link". Not the first 20 submitted, the first 20 community-ordered, which means the top 20 of that week's seventy on votes.
So the only route their own documentation leaves capable of an ordinary followed link is the one you cannot buy and cannot schedule, and it turns followed only if the week goes your way. If that shape feels familiar it is because Hacker News works the same way: nofollow on arrival, followed once the post performs, and no amount of preparation guarantees it.
Our measurement is consistent with a rule of roughly that shape without proving it. Forty-one of eighty listings carry the followed anchor and thirty-nine do not, and the visible vote counts do not separate the two groups, so something other than votes-as-displayed is deciding it. We say what we counted and stop there.
Six steps, and the AI Autofill is the first one
The submission is a six-step wizard with a live preview card pinned beside it, and it is one of the better-built ones in this catalog. Step one opens on a Link field with an AI Autofill button that fills the rest from your page, which means, as always, that what comes back is a mirror of how well your homepage introduces itself. Fix that once and every directory that reads your site improves with it.
The rest is ordinary and quick: a tagline described as "One sentence that sells it", a Markdown description with a preview tab, a square logo, one to nine gallery images at up to 10MB each, up to three categories from eight, up to ten tags, the launch route and week, and at least one social link. You sign in to submit.
How to launch on HUNT0, step by step
- 1
Check your Domain Rating before you pick a route
The badge route needs an Ahrefs DR above 10 and nothing else on the page tells you that until step five. Look it up first, because the answer decides the whole plan: above 10 and the badge route gives you a chosen week for nothing, below it and you are choosing between a twelve-week queue and $16.90.
- 2
Install the badge before you start, not at step five
Verification looks at your live site, so the badge has to be there when they check and stay there afterwards. Deciding about it halfway through a wizard means a deploy in the middle of a submission, which is how badges end up pasted somewhere temporary and removed at the next redesign. Put it in properly, or have it handled through a component that keeps it live.
- 3
Let AI Autofill go first, then correct it
Paste the URL and press the button before typing anything. What it returns tells you how your homepage reads to a machine, which is the same thing half the directories in your list are doing silently. Correct the tagline afterwards rather than writing it from scratch: their prompt for the field, one sentence that sells it, is a better brief than most.
- 4
Use all three categories and spend the tags
Up to 3 categories from 8 and up to 10 tags, and there is no penalty for using them. The categories are broad enough that most products genuinely sit in two or three, and every tag is another page your listing can be found from. This is free surface area and most submissions leave it on the table.
- 5
Prepare the gallery, because one to nine is a wide range
A square logo plus one to nine screenshots in PNG, JPG or WebP at up to 10MB each. Nine is far more room than most boards give you, so this is the place to show the product working rather than one hero shot. Export them before you open the form; nothing kills a submission like hunting for screenshots at step three.
- 6
Pick the week deliberately if you have earned the choice
Badge and Premium both let you reserve a week rather than take the next slot. That is the real prize on this board. Choose a week you can be around for, because the free ranking is community-ordered and the listing that gets attention is the one whose maker is present when it goes live.
Three numbers for the same thing
Worth printing without reconciling, the way we do with any board whose counters disagree. The submission flow and the pricing card both say 70 launch slots per week. The FAQ underneath that same pricing card says "Each UTC week has up to 80 free launch slots". The FAQ on the explore page says "Every day we open 10 free launch slots", which is seventy again.
None of it changes what you should do, and all of it is a reason to read the FAQ rather than the card when the two disagree, which on this site they do more than once.
Training refused, citation invited
Their robots.txt is worth a line because it makes a deliberate distinction rather than a blanket rule. GPTBot gets a flat Disallow: /. OAI-SearchBot gets the same access as everybody else, with only the app routes closed off. Training refused, citation invited, per crawler. Third board in this catalog to draw that line, and it is becoming the default position among the ones that think about it.
HUNT0 review: the short answer
A well-built board with a real catalogue, three honest routes and one document that disagrees with itself. Get the badge up, check your DR is above 10, take the free week you choose rather than the $16.90 one, and read your listing when it publishes.
Their badge route is free. Thirty directories are $29, badges kept live.
One payment, every directory named in your dashboard with its Domain Rating on the card, a no-equity mark where the link cannot be crawled, one component that installs every badge a directory asks for and keeps it up, and a rejection credited back as another directory.
Free, badge, or $16.90. Read the FAQ, not the card.
A DR 31 launch board with 3,480 products. We measured 80 listings: 41 followed, 39 nofollow, all pointing straight at the product. The cards promise a guaranteed dofollow on Badge and Premium; the FAQ on the same page says those are nofollow and sponsored. Take the badge route anyway, because it is $0, skips up to 84 days and lets you choose your week. It needs Ahrefs DR above 10 and their badge live on your site. The whole catalog.
FAQ
Is a HUNT0 link dofollow?
On some listings, not all. We read 80 product pages and every one of them carries a primary Website anchor pointing straight at the product's own domain: 41 are rel="noopener" and therefore followed, and 39 are rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc". So roughly half the catalogue passes equity and half does not, and which half you land in depends on the route you launch through.
What are the three ways to launch on HUNT0?
Free Launch at $0 joins the weekly community queue, first come first served, with a standard community-ranked listing. Badge Launch is also $0 and skips that queue once HUNT0 verifies their badge on a site with an Ahrefs Domain Rating above 10. Premium Launch is $16.90 one-time, reduced from $29.90, and buys a Featured listing plus a launch week of your choosing.
Does the HUNT0 badge really get you a dofollow link?
Their pricing card and their submission flow both say so, and their FAQ on the same page says the opposite: “Premium links are marked sponsored and badge links nofollow; neither guarantees an ordinary dofollow link or a top ranking.” The FAQ is the more specific statement and the one that describes actual markup, so plan on it. Take the badge route for the queue skip and the chosen week, which are real and worth having, and not for the rel.
Which HUNT0 route can produce an ordinary followed link?
The free one, on their own account. The Free Launch card reads “First 20 community-ordered launches eligible for an ordinary link”, and eligible is doing the work in that sentence: you have to finish in the week's top 20 on community votes. It is the same shape as a Hacker News submission, where the link turns followed only once the post performs, and it is not something the submitter controls.
What is HUNT0's Domain Rating?
31, per Ahrefs. The sitemap holds 3,650 URLs, of which 3,480 are product pages and 155 are maker profiles, so the catalogue behind that number is real rather than a seeded demo.
What does the HUNT0 Badge Launch require?
Two things, in their words: “Ahrefs DR above 10 + official HUNT0 badge”. So it is not open to a brand new domain, and the badge has to be live on your site when they verify it and stay live afterwards. That is a snippet in your repository rather than a field in a form, which is the part most submission services cannot do for you.
How long is the HUNT0 free queue?
Long enough that both paid routes sell the skip as their headline: the submission flow advertises “Skip up to 84 days of waiting” on Badge and Premium alike. Twelve weeks is a long time to hold a launch, and it is the strongest argument for arriving with a badge already installed rather than deciding about one when you reach step five.
How many free launch slots does HUNT0 have per week?
Their own pages give three answers and we reconcile none of them. The submission flow and the pricing card both say 70 launch slots per week. The FAQ under that same pricing card says “Each UTC week has up to 80 free launch slots”. The FAQ on the explore page says “Every day we open 10 free launch slots”, which is 70 again. Worth knowing before you plan around a number.
What does the HUNT0 submission form ask for?
Six steps. Product info takes a link with an AI Autofill button, a product name, a one-sentence tagline and a pricing dropdown. Description is a Markdown field with a live preview. Media wants a square logo and one to nine gallery images in PNG, JPG or WebP at up to 10MB each. Categories and Tags allows up to 3 of 8 categories and up to 10 tags. Launch schedule is where you pick the route and the week. Social links needs at least one of email, X, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky or YouTube, and you sign in to submit.
Does Submitator submit to HUNT0?
Yes, on both routes. The badge one matters here because a badge is a snippet that has to live in your repository and stay there, which is exactly what our badge component handles: installed once, kept live, and updated from our side when a directory changes its embed. A rejected submission comes back as a credit for another directory.
More submit-to guides.
Their badge route is free. Thirty directories are $29, badges kept live.
One payment, each directory named with its Domain Rating on the card before you choose it, a no-equity mark where the link cannot be crawled, one component that installs every badge and keeps it live, and a rejection swapped for another directory.