Frequently Asked Questions
Featured listings on our homepage are paid weekly product promotions that support the platform.
Some tools include affiliate links, clearly stated on each tool page. Affiliates provide a small commission if you purchase paid plans, at no extra cost.
Our weekly newsletter contains 1-2 paid sponsor placements per issue to power our content.
We intentionally avoid disruptive ads on our site. Our selective promotions allow us to sustain the platform with a clean, user-friendly experience.
This enables free access for both tool seekers and submitters. We appreciate partnerships that help us maintain a thriving AI community.
Though our slots are limited, we periodically open doors for exciting sponsorship ventures.
Simply get in touch with us here.
Over 75% of the tools that are submitted to this site do not get approved. We personally curate which tools we’d like to list and which ones we don’t.
Here are the most common reasons we decide not to list certain tools:
- The same exact concept is already listed multiple times – We want to help people make decisions on which tools to use. If the same exact concept for a tool exists on the site a whole bunch already, we will likely not list it. Make your product standout from similar tools and resubmit.
- The website is low effort or has a poor user experience – If your site looks like it was created in 15-minutes by a 12-year old, we’ll typically assume the tool you’re promoting had the same effort put into it. If you want us to take you seriously, make sure you put some effort into making your website and user experience professional.
- Your product is not publicly available yet – If your product is in “waitlist” mode, please submit your product after it’s launched and publicly available. We had too many tools create “waitlists” and then just never launch, effectively collecting emails without ever creating a product. We no longer accept products that are “waitlist only.”
- Your website contains adult content – If your site has adult content and does not have filters turned on by default, we will not accept your site. This is meant to be a family friendly site.
- You’re not actually submitting a tool – We don’t share newsletters, new tool aggregators (sites that copy the Future Tools concept), blogs, links directly to Discord, Telegram, or WhatsApp bots, etc. We want to share software tools.
- Your site looks like a scam or has poor reviews – If our red-flag radars go off when looking at your site or your site has an overwhelming amount of poor reviews (for iOS, Android, Chrome apps, etc.), we likely won’t list your tool.
At the end of the day, we’re trying to curate cool tools that we think will be helpful to people. Matt’s YouTube call-to-action is to check out Future Tools where he curates the coolest tools he comes across. We added a submission form to raise the likelihood that your tool is one we actually come across. But submission doesn’t guarantee addition to the site. There are plenty of other tool aggregators out there that accept everything. We curate carefully.
Featured listings are paid promotions. We give tool creators the opportunity to purchase a one-week listing at the top of the site. We only have two featured listings per week because we want to keep the user interface clean. These featured listings often sell out weeks in advance. If you’d like to purchase one, please get in contact here.
*Do not ask about your tool submission on that form. It does NOT go to the people that decide which tools get listed!
At the moment, all of the summaries of the tools are generated via AI. Our site looks at the contents of your homepage and then uses the GPT-3.5 API to summarize what your site does. The image that’s presented on the page is either the Open Graph image that is set in your meta data or a screenshot of your homepage. Because much of this process is automated, it can get some of the information wrong. We do manually review the descriptions before they go public on the site to make sure they’re not completely off but some nuances occasionally slip through the cracks. We also know that a tool’s features, pricing, and even branding may change over time. At the moment, there’s no real great way to submit a change. We will be rolling out a “suggest a change” form that will be accessible from within the tool’s page that you’d like to change. Once that is available, it will be easy for you, or anyone, to suggest a change or report spam/scam products. In the meantime, you can try to reach us through the Discord community. We check in there frequently and will do our best to make updates based on requests.
At the moment, Matt is mostly working with just a small amount of long-term partners for the YouTube channel. However, there are occasional sponsorship opportunities. If you’re interested in exploring a sponsorship in the newsletter or on the YouTube channel, please get in touch with this form.
*Do not ask about your tool submission on that form. It does NOT go to the people that decide which tools get listed!
This website makes money from several ways. Featured listings at the top of the home page are paid product promotions. Companies can purchase 1-week featured listings. Some of the tools on this site are affiliate links. Any tool that is an affiliate link has it clearly stated on the tool’s page. Affiliate links are not an endorsement of the tool and they also do not effect the price that you pay for the tool. However, the Future Tools team may receive a small commission if you choose to purchase paid plans through those affiliate links. The Future Tools Weekly Newsletter has between one and two sponsors in each issue which are also paid placements.
We’ve specifically chosen not put advertisements all over this site. Featured listings, affiliate links, and newsletter sponsorships are our way of supporting and maintaining the site without cluttering the site or hurting the user experience with advertising everywhere. These help keep this site free for both people looking for tools and those who want to submit tools.