How to Submit Your Tool to 10015.io: Does the Suggest Form Work?

What is 10015.io

10015.io (the site is at https://10015.io) is a free online tools collection built by Volkan Şengül. DR 41. About a million visits per month. Open it and you see 100+ tools: CSS generators, image compressors, color pickers, text utilities, social card previews. They're sorted by use case.

No signup. No paywall. Almost no ads. The whole site is clean and the UI is consistent across all the tools.

But here's the thing you need to know first: 10015.io is not Product Hunt and not AlternativeTo. It's not a directory. Every tool on the site is written by Volkan himself. Third-party tools don't get added. So when you open the suggest page, you're handing him an idea — not filing an application.

Once you get this difference, everything else makes sense.

Should you still submit

It depends.

Worth a shot if:

• You built a very simple, single-purpose, pure-frontend web tool. The vibe matches what's already on 10015.
• You're OK with "being inspiration." He may not take your tool, but he might write a similar one.
• You want a DR 41 mention and you're not in a rush for a real backlink.

Don't bother if:

• You're shipping a SaaS, a paid tool, or anything with a login wall. Ignored on sight.
• You sell AI wrappers, prompt collections, or API key resales. 10015 stays away from that whole space.
• You're B2B, enterprise, or a template marketplace. Wrong fit.

For most indie hackers, 10015.io isn't the top priority channel. But DR 41 is sitting right there. If you do it right, half an hour is worth spending.

What 10015.io picks up

10015 has no leaderboard. But you can tell what Volkan likes and doesn't. After watching for a while, the pattern is:

• Solves one small clear problem. One tool, one thing. Not "convert + compress + generate code" all at once.
• No signup. Tools on 10015 work the moment you click in. Input, button, result. Three steps.
• Runs on the client. If it can run in the browser, no backend. So Volkan doesn't need to keep servers alive.
• Useful to many people. Tools that help front-end devs, designers, and marketers all do better than tools made for one niche.
• Looks decent. The whole site is clean. He doesn't bother copying tools with rough UI.

The most common mistake: you think you're submitting a "tool," but it's a "product" — with pricing, login, orgs. 10015 won't take that.

What to prep before you submit

Two weeks out

Strip your tool to the bone. If it has 3 features, split it into 3 separate pages, each doing one thing. 10015 takes atomic tools.

Speed it up. Use WASM if you can. Use client-side if you can. Slow tools don't survive here.

One week out

Write a 1-2 sentence description of the tool. The kind of language your mom would get — "compress images to under 50KB," not "advanced lossy compression engine."

Get a clean screenshot or short GIF ready. The current 10015 tool pages have very plain screenshots. You don't need a marketing-style cover image.

The day you submit

Open https://10015.io/suggest. That's the main entry. Have your link ready, a short description, and one sentence about why 10015 doesn't have it but should.

The submission flow

Step 1: Fill the suggest form

URL: https://10015.io/suggest. The form is short — tool name, link (optional), description, your email (optional).

Remember when you fill it out: one person reads this, not a machine. So the tone can be relaxed, but the content has to be solid. Don't pile on adjectives. Just say what the tool does, when it's useful, and whether anything like it already exists.

Step 2: Reach out directly

The form alone gets no reply most of the time. Dozens come in every day. He can't answer them all. If you're serious, find his X / Twitter (the 10015 account or his personal one) and send a short DM. Tell him what you submitted and why you think it's interesting.

Don't blast it out. Don't use a template. Anything that looks like marketing spam gets skipped.

Step 3: Wait

To be honest, most likely no reply. Volkan has a day job. 10015 is his side project. Don't follow up every week. If you hear nothing in a month, drop this channel and move your energy somewhere else. The next section lists backups.

Why most suggestions go nowhere

This is the real situation with sites like 10015.io. No point hiding it.

First, way more come in than go out. Volkan probably adds 10-20 new tools a year. But suggestions come in by the dozens every week. The cut rate is over 95%.

Second, he writes his own. Even if your tool is open source, with full docs and a clean link, he might still pick up the idea and rewrite it. The reason is simple. He wants the whole site's code style to be the same, performance under control, and no outside services to depend on.

Third, no backlink promise. Even if your tool gets used as inspiration, 10015 might not put your link on the tool page. He sometimes writes "inspired by," but that's not the default.

Fourth, no paid lane. 10015 doesn't open sponsorships or paid listings. So you can't pay your way to the front of the line.

Sounds harsh, but that's how it is. Going in with "if it inspires him, that's a win" is way more realistic than "I need a backlink."

How to actually get a backlink

If your real goal is a DR 41 backlink, the ideas below work better than the suggest form.

Idea 1: Build your own small site like 10015. The 10015 model isn't complex. A bunch of static tools, one shared UI, SEO keyword pages stacked up. You can do this too. Once your DR climbs, link with 10015 instead of begging for a one-way link.

Idea 2: Get talked about on Reddit. 10015 has no comments. But r/webdev and r/SideProject talk about tool sites all the time. If your tool gets traction on Reddit first, the chance that Volkan picks it up later goes up.

Idea 3: Contribute to open source. If 10015 uses an open-source library (lots of front-end tools sit on top of npm packages), submit a PR there. If it gets merged, 10015 benefits and you ride along.

Idea 4: Reach out for a real partnership. In rare cases, if your tool is genuinely better than what 10015 has (more accurate, faster, has an API), email Volkan with a partnership pitch — he links you, you give him user analytics or cross-promote. The chance is small. But the cost is small too. Worth one try.

What to do after

If your tool ends up listed or referenced on 10015, don't stop at one link.

Find the attribution link at the bottom of his tool page. Screenshot it. Put it in your "As seen on" strip on your own site.

Tweet about it. @ the 10015 account. He'll probably retweet. That retweet brings you more eyeballs than the raw backlink does.

Write it up in your changelog or blog: "Our X tool got picked up by 10015.io." That kind of post then earns search traffic of its own.

Last thing — if you shipped one tool that 10015 took, that's a signal. The market says you can build small tools. So build a few more. Stack them into your own collection. Then come back and trade with sites like 10015 as a peer.

Common mistakes

• Submitting a SaaS. 10015 doesn't take SaaS, no matter how much it looks like a tool.
• Submitting a tool that needs login or signup. Ignored.
• Submitting a tool that already exists on 10015. There are 100+ tools. Search first.
• Mass DMs and template messages. Volkan spots these instantly.
• Following up three times in one week. Patience is basic etiquette for indie projects.
• AI-generated descriptions. "A revolutionary tool that empowers developers across the full stack" — he reads two words and closes the tab.

10015.io vs other tool collection sites

If your goal is "fast, sure, steady backlinks," AlternativeTo is way more useful than 10015.io. The value of 10015.io is vibe match. If you build the kind of free small tool the site already has, getting picked up there is more of a story than a regular backlink.

FAQ

Does 10015.io charge anything? No. The suggest form is fully free. But that also means there's no paid fast lane.

How long until you hear back? No promise. Usually if you hear nothing within a week, the answer is no.

Will he keep the link I submitted with my tool? Not always. He might use your tool as a reference but write his own version. The link at the bottom of the tool page may or may not be yours.

Can you edit or take back a suggest after sending it? No. The form only submits. If you got something wrong, just send another one or DM him.

How many times should you submit? Once per tool is enough. Repeat submissions get ignored. If you have 5 tools, space them out by weeks and send the strongest one each time.

Will 10015.io take AI tools? Most of the time, no. 10015 leans toward classic frontend / design / dev utilities. AI wrappers aren't his thing.

Other platforms to hit at the same time

If you ship free tools or a small SaaS, 10015.io shouldn't be your only channel. The combo below works much better:

• Product Hunt: DR 75. Launch day is the gold standard for tool sites. Any free tool deserves a run there.
• AlternativeTo: DR 80 open directory. List your tool and you start getting SEO traffic right away.
• SaaSHub: DR 68. Free to submit. Friendly to small tools and SaaS alike.
• Toolify: DR 64. AI tool focus. Has a paid fast lane.
• Tool Pilot: DR 51. Newer, but the bar to get in is low.
• Future Tools: DR 44. AI curation. Decent quality.

When you run these, treat 10015.io as one long-tail experiment, not the main play. The main play is Product Hunt first, then AlternativeTo + SaaSHub + Toolify in parallel — those are the DR 60+ open directories that pay off.

For more sites like these, see /c/other and /c/dev.