Startups.fyi is a directory of startups and side projects, with a free weekly newsletter about how founders build profitable online businesses. Each listing page shows a short description of the product, a link to its website, the launch year, the location, the category and a revenue label such as a monthly revenue figure or "Pre-revenue".
A founder submits a product through an online form, and a person reviews each project against the site's content and quality rules before it is published. A featured listing is a permanent entry in the searchable directory and includes a backlink: a link from another site to the product's site, which search engines count when they rank pages. The newsletter has more than 15,000 subscribers, mostly startup founders, business owners and indie makers, and it carries two kinds of paid ads: text-only classified ads at the bottom of an issue and one premium sponsorship with an image at the top.
Startups.fyi is a hosted website. Featured listings are paid per listing, and newsletter ads are paid per issue.