How to Submit to There's An AI For That, and What $49 Buys

There's An AI For That pricing: $49, or $347 by default

Two tiers plus a custom one. "Website only" is $49, a "one-time review fee" for a "Permanent listing" that "Never expires", with basic analytics and a $100 ad credit. "Everything you need" is $347, also one-time, and the thing it really buys is the newsletter: a "Guaranteed spot in the #1 AI newsletter on the planet (2.5M+ subscribers)", plus priority review and a larger credit. Both 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 $347 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. While you are reading the cards, treat the click estimates as marketing rather than a commitment, and it is a copy mismatch rather than anything worse since the price is identical in both places: the same $49 tier is quoted as "50 - 100 estimated clicks (first week, casual/discovery traffic)" in the pricing block and "100 - 1,000 estimated clicks" on the card inside the form.

They sell traffic. The dofollow comes free.

We sampled 58 live listing pages in July 2026 and read the raw markup on each. Every one carried four links to the tool's own domain with no rel attribute at all, pointing straight at the destination with a ?ref=taaft parameter and no redirect hop. Their paid ad slots are a different matter and carry rel="nofollow noopener", which is exactly the right way round: advertising nofollowed, editorial followed. Then the part that says something about how they operate. We searched nine of their pages for "backlink", "dofollow", "domain rating" and "domain authority" and found no marketing use of any of them. Their pitch is traffic, headlined "Get Guaranteed Traffic From 4M+ Monthly AI Enthusiasts." The paid AI directories we have checked tend to do this in reverse, selling the link and quietly shipping nofollow.

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 $347 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.

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, they say they re-test links and retire dead entries, which we cannot check from outside, and the link they give you is a genuine dofollow they do not even market. The 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, and a recurring $99-a-month upsell that used to sit on the submission page is gone. The refund does the honest thing: automatic if they don't publish you, nothing once they have and no promises about results either way. Go in knowing the $347 option is preselected, and that the $49 tier buys the listing, not the newsletter.