SideProjectors Lists You Free at DR 71. The Homepage Field Is Your Link.

Four ways in, and the one for a product you keep

The first screen asks you to choose: "I'd like to sell my project", "I'm seeking a co-founder / collaborator", "I want to promote / showcase my project" or "I want to continue my previous submission". A product you are growing belongs on the third, and their showcase help says how it works: "To showcase your project, simply submit it through our regular submission process and indicate that you want to showcase it rather than sell it."

Showcases are most of what arrives: 98 of the 157 newest listings, against 59 for sale. A showcase page is titled with your name and type, "SaaS side project" for instance, and closes on "This is a showcase project. If you have any questions, you can send a message to the owner." beside a Contact Owner button. Sale pages say "for sale" in the title, and 22 of the 59 add the asking price.

Next come the shortcuts. "Fetch information from the project homepage" reads your site; three more import from your ProductHunt, GitHub or GitLab account; the last starts from scratch. Whichever you take, read every field it fills before moving on. The form saves as you go, and Save & Publish Later under each step keeps a draft that the fourth button on the first screen picks up again.

Six steps, in a sidebar

Step 1: who it is for, in 80 characters

What type of project are you promoting? is required, with nine answers from SaaS Business to Domain Name and Other, and the type shows in your page title. Project name takes 50 characters, and the Logo box recommends at least 256x256.

"Please pitch your project in one sentence" allows 80 characters, and those 80 travel with your name: they sit below it on your listing and beside it on the daily page. Spend them on the problem it solves and who has that problem; the name has already told them what it is called.

Project homepage is the optional one, with the hint "A live site or demo link helps buyers see it working." Enter the full address of the page a SideProjectors visitor should reach. Listings that add a utm tag keep it in the link, so your analytics can tell those visits apart.

Project description is required and comes with a toolbar, link button included. Links typed in there show as nofollow, so leave the link to the homepage field and give the description to the product itself: the problem, the people it serves, the price. Put the point first: on a showcase page the opening lines double as the page's meta description.

"Select up to 5 markets related to this project" is required too, with 629 markets to pick from, and below it sit optional X, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram handles.

Steps 2 to 5: pictures, stack, numbers and one box

Media marks nothing as required, but their approval guide is plain about it: "Listings with images get approved faster and sell better." Upload the screens that show the product working, and add a YouTube or Vimeo link if you have a demo.

How is this project built? offers six lists (Languages, Frameworks, Libraries & Packages, Databases, Hosting & Infrastructure, Third-Party SaaS & APIs) and a free-text Other, and at least one must be filled in. Your listing prints the result in its own tech stack section. The open box below asks who uses the project and what competes with it, and two lines there tell a visitor more than a list of frameworks.

Metrics takes ranges for monthly unique visitors, pageviews and downloads or installs. Any of the three can be skipped when it does not apply, and hours a week is optional. Two text boxes follow, the second capped at 1,000 characters. Pick the range that is true; their approval guide says it outright, "Don't exaggerate - we check."

Potential sale discussion is one checkbox under "Are you open to discussing a sale of this project if conditions are met?" Showcases sit in a marketplace where people come to buy, so the question is a real one. Tick it only if you would answer an offer.

Step 6: clear the red, then the orange

The confirm screen lists what is missing. In red, the five things it will not submit without: a valid name, a valid pitch, a description, up to five markets and the tools you built with. In orange, three it recommends: a project homepage, images and your statistics, which it calls "important for your project to be featured and also to be found by potential buyers." Each line has a Go & fix link back to its step.

With the list clear, you tick "I declare that this information is truthful and I comply with all terms & services" and decide on a switch reading "Also feature this on ComingUp for free". Left on, SideProjectors files the project to ComingUp itself once it is approved; our ComingUp guide covers what that listing carries.

Where your link sits on the listing

Your listing shows the homepage address twice: as a short link under your logo, and again under Project homepage beside the description. Both are plain links with no rel attribute, built the same way on sale and showcase listings, and both point at the full address from the field, query string included.

The HTML the server sends also holds a text copy of the listing, hidden from view. Its Website line links your homepage too, marked rel="nofollow ugc noopener" on all 150 of the newest listings that have one. A crawler that runs the script finds both versions; one that reads only the served HTML finds the copy alone.

Around those links, the page dates your listing and lays out the pitch, description, markets, stack and metrics you gave it. A link in the description shows as nofollow, which is one more reason the homepage field is the one to fill.

Review, and what the paid extras change

Every project is read by a moderator. Their approval guide gives "Most projects get reviewed within 2-5 business days, but it can vary depending on volume." and adds that "Once your project is approved, it goes live immediately." Their submission guide puts the usual review at around 24 hours, and the screen you see after submitting says it "typically takes 2-3 business days for approval." By their own account the slow ones are projects that are "incomplete or vague", because the team often has to come back with questions.

Three paid extras are on offer. Fast approval costs $20: "After payment is confirmed, your project will be automatically approved within about 2 hours." Re-submission, at $10, puts a listed project back at the top of the front page without another review. Sponsoring is $10 a day for a spot on the home page, every project page and the newsletter, two sponsors a day at most. Their approval guide is clear that the free path stays open: "This is completely optional. The standard approval process is still free - it just takes longer."

The part Submitator takes over

Pick SideProjectors in your plan and the six steps are ours: the 80-character pitch and a description written for this marketplace alone, your screenshots cut to fit, your homepage in its field and the rest of the form around them. It counts as one of the 30 directories in the $29 plan, and you pick all 30 yourself from a catalog that prints each one's Domain Rating.

In that catalog SideProjectors sits in the software group, beside the other sites a SaaS product is filed to; the rest of that group is listed with each one's rating.

SideProjectors review: the short answer

List it. A showcase costs nothing, requires nothing of your site and puts a dated, indexable page on a DR 71 marketplace in front of people who come to look at side projects and sometimes to buy one. Fill in the homepage, add screenshots and a stack, pick metric ranges you can stand behind and expect a moderator before it goes live.