How to Submit to There's An AI For That, and What $49 Buys
There's An AI For That (theresanaiforthat.com, TAAFT for short) is the largest AI directory we have measured. A live counter on its homepage read 54,582 tools on 18 October 2026, its Domain Rating is 77 and the domain itself dates to October 2022. It is run by a named Romanian company with a data protection officer whose phone number is published. Listing costs $49, described on the page as a "one-time review fee", and submission is about as simple as it gets: one required field, your tool URL, from a signed-in account.
No, Submitator doesn't submit here, so treat this as a how-to rather than a pitch. Nothing about this one needs debunking either. The link is a real dofollow, the $49 is one-time and lower than it used to be and the refund policy does what refund policies should. The one price that moved the other way is the preselected top tier: $347 in August, $437 since September. What follows is the flow, the two things worth knowing before you click and one condition that decides what order you should do your launches in.
Their $49 and our $49 are the same money pointed at different things: one listing on a DR 77 site carrying 54,582 tools, against 60 startup directories you pick in the dashboard at about 82 cents each. We don't submit here, so these are two line items rather than a choice. If you are buying both, buy theirs first, because their ad credit requires it.
There's An AI For That review at a glance
| Feature | There's An AI For That |
|---|---|
| What it is | AI tools directory plus a newsletter they put at 2.5M+ |
| Size | 54,582 tools on its own live counter |
| Domain Rating | 77 |
| Links | Dofollow: no rel on 16 of 16 newest listings |
| Cost | $49 'one-time review fee'; $437 tier adds the newsletter |
| Free route | No $0 tier; a monthly thread on X, one tool picked |
| Review | Human, '1-2 days' average per its FAQ |
| Refund | Automatic if you aren't published; as a rule none after |
Per theresanaiforthat.com's /launch/ and /get-featured/ pages, its FAQ, Terms (last updated 19 March 2026), Privacy page and robots.txt and the 16 newest listings on /just-released/, all read on 18 October 2026, with Wayback captures of /launch/ from 22 August and 15 September 2026 for the price change. Pricing: 'Low traffic', a 'Basic listing in our directory' (still called 'Website only' on 15 September 2026), $49 'one-time review fee'; 'Maximum Exposure' $437 'one-time fee' (it was $347 on 22 August 2026), adding a 'Guaranteed spot in the #1 AI newsletter on the planet (2.5M+ subscribers)'; a Custom Launch Plan by contact; launch credits in bulk for agencies. Its FAQ answers 'Is the submission fee one-off or recurring?' with 'The submission fee is one-off.' The $437 radio is preselected on the form and labelled Recommended. /get-featured/ also sells a Highlight at '$99/mo' ('Renews monthly. Cancel anytime.') and pay-per-click featuring. The two sales pages disagree: /launch/ says 'Newsletter feature worth $1,000 included' and '5M+ Monthly visitors', /get-featured/ says 'Newsletter feature worth $3k' and 'Monthly unique visitors: 3,000,000'. Link check: on 16 of 16 listings, the six call-to-action anchors to the tool's own homepage carry no rel attribute and link direct with ?ref=taaft&utm_source=taaft&utm_medium=referral, no redirect hop; a sample of 58 listings in July 2026 read the same way. The top promo slot on listing pages carries rel='sponsored'. Their sales pages, FAQ and Terms make no marketing use of 'backlink', 'dofollow' or 'domain authority'; 'Domain rating' appears only as a per-tool stat on listing pages. Their robots.txt disallows AhrefsBot and SemrushBot while leaving Googlebot free, so the link is unlikely to appear in those tools' reports. Archived pricing for the base listing ran $299 through early 2025, $99 by June 2025 and $49 from September 2025, unchanged since. Operator: There's An AI For That SRL, Bucharest, domain created October 2022. Submitator does not submit to There's An AI For That; it is $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard with DR shown, badges installed and kept live, most directories delivered in 24-48h and every directory within 21 days at most, a live link per completed listing, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund window.
How to submit to There's An AI For That, step by step
- 1
Sign in, then open the launch page
The form lives at theresanaiforthat.com/launch and needs a signed-in account. Payment runs through Stripe, per the note under the button.
- 2
Paste your tool URL
That is the only required field. Their helper text explains why: 'The URL above will be used to populate your tool page. Edit access is provided upon email verification.' So the listing is built from your site, and you get to edit it once you verify your email, rather than filling in a long form up front.
- 3
Check which package is selected
The $437 'Maximum Exposure' option is preselected and labelled Recommended. If you want the $49 listing, select 'Low traffic' before you pay, and leave 'I would like to launch' at one time. If your accelerator gave you a code, pick 'Redeem a prepaid code' instead and the button changes to 'Redeem code & Launch Tool'.
- 4
Optionally pick a launch date
A checkbox reads 'I want to schedule my launch date' and reveals a date-time field plus a timezone selector. Useful if you are lining the listing up with a Product Hunt day or a funding announcement.
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Submit and wait for the email
Submissions are reviewed by a human. Their FAQ puts the average at 1-2 days and says you'll get an email when the listing goes live. If it isn't approved, the fee is refunded automatically.
There's An AI For That pricing: $49, or $437 by default
Two tiers plus a custom one. "Low traffic", a "Basic listing in our directory" that was still called "Website only" in mid-September, is $49, a "one-time review fee" for a "Permanent listing" that "Never expires", with basic analytics and a $100 ad credit. "Maximum Exposure" is $437, also one-time and up from $347 in August, and the thing it really buys is the newsletter: a "Guaranteed spot in the #1 AI newsletter on the planet (2.5M+ subscribers)", which the launch page values as "Newsletter feature worth $1,000 included", plus priority review and a larger credit. A Custom Launch Plan is quoted on request, and agencies can buy launch credits in bulk. Both tiers are genuinely one-time, and their FAQ says so when asked: "The submission fee is one-off." The one thing to watch is that the $437 radio is the one already selected when the form loads. It is labelled Recommended and nothing is concealed, but if you came for the $49 listing you have to pick it.
Two smaller things before you pay. There is a recurring upsell, and it is optional: a Highlight at "$99/mo" on their /get-featured/ page that "Renews monthly", next to pay-per-click featuring. And the copy disagrees with itself in places, though never on price: the $49 tier is quoted as "50 - 100 estimated clicks (first week, casual/discovery traffic)" in the pricing block and "20-100 estimated clicks" on the card inside the form, and /launch/ values the newsletter feature at $1,000 and counts "5M+ Monthly visitors" where /get-featured/ says "Newsletter feature worth $3k" and "Monthly unique visitors: 3,000,000".
They sell traffic. The dofollow comes free.
We read the raw markup on the 16 newest listings on 18 October 2026. Every one links the tool's own homepage from six call-to-action anchors (the "Open" link, the "Use tool" buttons and the gallery image) with no rel attribute at all, pointing straight at the destination with ?ref=taaft&utm_source=taaft&utm_medium=referral and no redirect hop. A July sample of 58 listings read the same way. The top promo slot on listing pages is a different matter and is marked rel="sponsored", as an ad should be. Then the part that says something about how they operate. Their sales pages, FAQ and Terms never use "backlink", "dofollow" or "domain authority" as a selling point, and "Domain rating" appears only as a stat on each listing, the listed tool's own. Their pitch is traffic, headlined "Get Guaranteed Traffic From 5M+ Monthly AI Enthusiasts." Compare Futurepedia, whose last public price was $497 for one listing and whose links to the tools it lists are nofollow on 25 of 25 pages.
Why it won't show up in your Ahrefs report
Their robots.txt disallows AhrefsBot, AhrefsSiteAudit, SemrushBot and several Semrush variants outright, while Googlebot is left free. The inference, and we'll mark it as one, is that those crawlers cannot fetch the page your listing sits on, so the link is unlikely to appear in an Ahrefs or Semrush backlink report even though Google can see it perfectly well. Founders check the wrong dashboard and conclude the listing did nothing. If you want to know whether the link exists, open your own listing and read the markup. If you want to know whether it worked, look at referral traffic. Our own DR checker won't see it either, for the same reason.
The free route is one tool a month
There is one, and they put it in their own FAQ instead of burying it: "We run a thread on X once a month where indie makers can submit their tool for free. We choose one tool from each thread and list it for free." That wording has been on the page unchanged for more than twenty months. They pick one tool per thread, so it is worth entering and not something to plan a launch around. The other no-payment route is the prepaid code field on the form, which reads "Use a prepaid submission code from your organization — no payment required." If your accelerator, employer or investor holds codes, ask before you pay.
Launch here first if you want the ad credit
This is the most useful practical fact on the page, and it decides the order you do things in. The credit is $100 on the $49 card and $300 on the $437 one, and both are worded as "up to". It carries a condition, in their words: "*Launch on TAAFT first and get up to $300 PPC bonus. Your tool must not appear on any other platform before the launch. We automatically apply the bonus to qualifying tools after submission." Take that at face value. If you run a directory batch anywhere, ours included, before you launch here, you have almost certainly spent it, and they say the bonus is applied automatically to qualifying tools, so qualification is their call rather than yours. Read "any other platform" literally too: if your tool is already on Product Hunt or anywhere else, assume the credit is gone and pick your order on other grounds. If it is still available and you want it, launch here first, wait for the listing to go live, then run everything else.
Line the other sixty up while you wait.
Their $49 buys one listing; our $49 buys 60 directories you pick. The TAAFT review takes a day or two: spend it building your list in the dashboard, every directory named with its DR beside it, so you can start the batch the moment the listing lands.
Is a There's An AI For That listing worth $49?
On the evidence, yes, and we say that as somebody who does not sell it. The directory is the biggest we have measured and the scale is checkable on their own live counter rather than taken on faith. The listing is permanent, the review is done by humans who state a 1-2 day average and the link they give you is a genuine dofollow they do not even market. The entry price has moved in the founder's favour, from $299 through most of 2024 and early 2025 to $99 by that June and $49 since September 2025; the top tier went the other way, from $347 to $437 in September 2026. The refund does the honest thing: automatic if they don't publish you and, as a rule, nothing once they have. The launch page also carries a 100% Money-Back Guarantee badge and promises "700 - 10,000+ targeted visitors guaranteed within your first week". The $99-a-month Highlight upsell sits on /get-featured/ and is easy to skip. Go in knowing the $437 option is preselected, and that the $49 tier buys the listing, not the newsletter.
Worth the $49. Not the $437.
Paste your URL, select "Low traffic", pay $49 once and wait a day or two for a permanent listing with a dofollow link on a DR 77 site. Do it before any other directory run if you want their ad credit. Then, separately, the other sixty directories are $49 with Submitator, and you choose every one of them.
FAQ
How much does it cost to submit to There's An AI For That?
$49, described on the page as a 'one-time review fee' for the 'Low traffic' tier, a 'Basic listing in our directory'. The second tier, Maximum Exposure, is $437 'one-time fee' (it was $347 in August) and adds the newsletter slot, which they state reaches 2.5M+ subscribers, plus priority review and a bigger ad credit. A Custom Launch Plan is by contact, and agencies can buy launch credits in bulk. The listing is not a subscription: asked 'Is the submission fee one-off or recurring?' their FAQ answers 'The submission fee is one-off.' What does renew monthly is an optional Highlight at $99 a month on their /get-featured/ page. Worth knowing before you click: the $437 option is the one preselected on the form, clearly labelled Recommended, so if you came for the $49 listing, select Low traffic before you pay.
Is a There's An AI For That listing dofollow?
Yes, and this is the part they undersell. On the 16 newest listings we read in October 2026, all six call-to-action links to the tool's own site carried no rel attribute at all, pointing straight at the destination with ?ref=taaft&utm_source=taaft&utm_medium=referral and no redirect hop; a July sample of 58 listings read the same way. They also never advertise it: their sales pages never use 'backlink', 'dofollow' or 'domain authority' as a selling point, and 'Domain rating' shows up only as a stat on each listing, the listed tool's own. They sell traffic and hand you the link quietly.
Why doesn't my There's An AI For That link show up in Ahrefs?
Because their robots.txt blocks the crawlers those tools use. AhrefsBot, AhrefsSiteAudit, SemrushBot and several Semrush variants are all disallowed outright, while Googlebot is not, so the link is real and crawlable by Google but is unlikely to appear in an Ahrefs or Semrush backlink report. That is an inference from their robots file rather than something they state, but it explains a result founders often panic about. Judge the listing on traffic and on Google, not on whether your backlink tool noticed it.
Can you submit to There's An AI For That for free?
Not through the form, which has no $0 option. There is a free route, though, and to their credit it sits in their own FAQ rather than being hidden: 'We run a thread on X once a month where indie makers can submit their tool for free. We choose one tool from each thread and list it for free.' They pick one tool per monthly thread, so it is worth entering and not something you can schedule a launch around. A second no-payment route exists if your accelerator or employer holds codes: the form offers 'Redeem a prepaid code' with the note 'Use a prepaid submission code from your organization — no payment required.'
How long does There's An AI For That take to review a submission?
Their FAQ says 'The average processing time for submissions is 1-2 days.' and 'Yes, you will receive an email notification when your AI goes live.' Review is human: the form states 'We accept AI tools, MCPs, GPTs and AI influencers (non-human).' and 'All submissions are manually reviewed by our staff.' Acceptance is at their discretion and their Terms reserve the right to reject any submission 'without obligation or explanation', but that is paired with an automatic refund if you aren't published, which is the fair way to structure it. Once you are published, their Terms say that as a general rule the fee is not refunded. Their launch page also carries a 100% Money-Back Guarantee badge and a traffic promise: '700 - 10,000+ targeted visitors guaranteed within your first week'.
Does Submitator submit to There's An AI For That?
No, so this guide is a straight how-to rather than a pitch. They are additive, not alternatives: their $49 buys one listing on a DR 77 site carrying 54,582 tools, and our $49 buys 60 startup directories you choose yourself in the dashboard with each one's DR on screen, about 82 cents each, one-time, with badges installed and kept live, most directories delivered within 24 to 48 hours and every one within 21 days at most, a live link per completed listing, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund window. If you're doing both, do theirs first, for the reason in the launch-order section above.
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