Future Tools
futuretools.ioThe AI tools database behind Matt Wolfe's YouTube channel and a newsletter with 250,000 readers. Submitting is a short free form, but more than three quarters of submissions are turned down and you will not hear back either way; wait a week before resubmitting. Waitlist-only products, custom GPTs, newsletters and near-duplicates of existing tools are declined. Tool pages send visitors through an internal redirect rather than linking to your domain directly.
How to submit to Future Tools
5 things to have ready- Tool name, URL and short description
- Category and pricing model
- Contact email and a Cloudflare Turnstile check
- Product must be publicly available, not waitlist-only
- Professional website and user experience
- Approval time
- Manual review; if not listed within a week, resubmit. No confirmation email either way.
- Acceptance
- Low (over 75% of submissions are not approved; personal curation)
- Launch cadence
- Rolling
Who it's for
The link is nofollow, so treat this as a traffic and discovery play rather than SEO. Worth it if the audience matches; skip if you're only after backlinks.
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