Send the Tool
One submission with the product details, the logo, and the description the listing should carry.
For a launch that needs more than one week of attention
Hold a featured slot for a month, and keep the write-up after it ends.
The Spotlight Bundle is the premium submission plus the editorial review. Thirty days featured, a homepage spotlight slot, social promotion, and a 2,000+ word article with screenshots and a permanent qualified link. Ordered separately those two parts run $224.99.
One-time purchase through Whop. The same parts cost $224.99 bought separately at toolindex.net, so the bundle saves $125.
Would rather do the legwork yourself? There is a free list of 25 real directories on the bundles overview, and it costs nothing to work through.
Spotlight Bundle$99.99
Starting statea launch that needs more than one week of attention
- 01Send the ToolOne submission with the product details, the logo, and the description the listing should carry.
- 02Thirty Days FeaturedReviewed within 24 hours, then featured for 30 days with a homepage spotlight slot and a social promotion post.
- 03The Long Write-UpA 2,000+ word editorial article with screenshots, a disclosed sponsorship label, and a link that outlives the placement.
What you end up withYou get thirty days of featured placement, a homepage spotlight slot, a social push, and a long editorial article that outlives all of it.
The failure pattern
Being Live Is Not the Same as Being Findable
A seven day featured window lines up with a launch day and then it is over. If your launch runs a month, or you are still rewriting the page a first-time visitor lands on, one week of placement burns before the traffic you are chasing arrives. The written coverage has the same problem in reverse, because it keeps working long after any placement expires and almost nobody sees it on day one.
The change
One Order, Three Things You Can Open
You get thirty days of featured placement, a homepage spotlight slot, a social push, and a long editorial article that outlives all of it. The placement covers the noisy part of a launch. The article covers the quiet months afterwards, when somebody searches the product name and needs to find something written by a person who is not you.
Thirty Days Featured
Reviewed within 24 hours, then featured for 30 days with a homepage spotlight slot and a social promotion post.
The Long Write-Up
A 2,000+ word editorial article with screenshots, a disclosed sponsorship label, and a link that outlives the placement.
Inside the bundle
Every Part, and What It Costs on Its Own
Premium Submission, $149.99 Separately
Reviewed within 24 hours, featured for 30 days, plus a homepage spotlight slot and social promotion.
Editorial Review, $75 Separately
A 2,000+ word article on toolindex.net with screenshots, a disclosed sponsorship label, and a link that stays up.
One Checkout Instead of Two
Both parts together for $99.99, which is $125 less than ordering the premium submission and the review on their own.
Verifiable
The receipt
Paid Placement Is Labeled and Kept Out of the Ranking
The published methodology page states that featured slots are clearly labeled, time-limited, and excluded from every other signal, and that payment purchases the deliverable rather than a positive conclusion, organic rank, or any promise about search indexing. That rule is the only reason a paid spotlight is worth anything to a reader.
Read the Tool Index methodologyStrong fit
Buy This If
- Your launch runs longer than a week and needs placement that lasts.
- You want the homepage spotlight and the social post, not only a listing row.
- You want one long article about the product that stays up after the placement ends.
Wrong fit
Skip This If
- You only need a listing and a short featured window, which the Launch Bundle covers for less.
- You also want your tool submitted to other directories, which starts with the Visibility Bundle.
- You are counting on placement to produce a specific number of signups.
Before checkout
Straight Answers
What does the homepage spotlight look like?
A labeled slot on the Tool Index homepage during your 30 day window. Open the homepage now and you will see whichever tool currently has it.
Does the social promotion come with a reach number?
No. It is a post from the Tool Index accounts. Reach depends on the platform, and nobody controls that, least of all the person selling you the post.
Does paying change where my tool ranks?
No. Featured status is labeled, time-limited, and excluded from the organic score. Ranking and placement are deliberately separate systems.
Can the review conclude that my tool is weak?
Yes. The sponsorship is disclosed and the verdict belongs to the editor. That is the whole reason a review like this is worth reading.
What happens when the 30 days end?
The listing and the article stay live. Only the featured placement expires.
The boundary
You are buying 30 days of labeled placement, a social post, and a published editorial review. Traffic, signups, search position, and the verdict itself are not part of the purchase.
Tool Index Spotlight Bundle