How Barie submits your product to 50 SaaS directories, fills out all the forms, bypasses captchas, and tracks which ones accepted you in a spreadsheet

Use case walkthrough | Automations & Workflows | 3 min read

Barie identifies the top 50 SaaS listing sites, product directories, and software marketplaces from live web research, navigates to each free submission page, fills every form field from your saved product profile, solves any captcha challenges, submits, and logs every outcome to a structured Google Sheet in real time. Fifty directory submissions. One prompt. Zero manual form-filling.

Why product directory submissions are the distribution task that never gets done at scale

A product marketing manager knows that SaaS directories drive organic discovery and SEO backlinks. She submits to Product Hunt and G2 in her first week. She opens AlternativeTo, starts filling in the form, gets a Slack message, loses her place, comes back the next day, and gives up after 5 total submissions. The other 45 directories stay on a “to do someday” list that never becomes today.

Directory submissions are not complex work. They are mechanical and time-consuming at scale — the same product name, description, category, and URL entered into 50 different forms with slightly different field labels, different character limits, and random captcha challenges. That is exactly the profile of work the Skills Agent was designed to execute without any human input.

The Skills Agent navigates each submission page, adapts your product description to the specific character limit of each form, solves any captcha challenge, submits, and logs the result — then moves immediately to the next directory without waiting for you: The entire 50-directory batch runs unattended. You open the Google Sheet when it is complete and see 50 rows with submission status, listing URLs where live, and dates.

Your prompt

Task prompt
“Research the top 50 SaaS directories, submit our product listing to every free one, fill out all the forms, and track which ones accepted us in a spreadsheet.”

1: Skills Agent Activated

Step 1: Research stack and agent execution — discovery, navigation, form filling, captcha bypass, and live tracking

2: Submission Tracker — All 50 Directories

Step 2: The submission tracker — every directory with status, listing URL, and date, ready when the run completes

45 additional directory rows in the full spreadsheet — all with directory name, submission URL, status, listing URL where live, and date submitted

Delivered to Your Tools

Step 3: Tracker delivered, live listings monitored, and team notified via Connectors

The Verdict
Forty-three SaaS directory submissions completed before lunch, without anyone opening a single form. The Google Sheet has every submission logged with status, listing URL where live, and date submitted. The seven paid-only directories are catalogued separately with their pricing for a budget conversation that can happen at the right time. What would have taken a marketing coordinator 8 to 10 hours of focused, interrupted work across multiple sessions took one prompt and ran completely unattended. The team spent the morning on product strategy. The directories got done.