MarketingDB

Piroune Balachandran, Mohd Anas, Aleksandar Blazhev, Joshua Hart, and Andreas Christodoulou looked at the backlink industry and realized something was broken. Getting quality dofollow backlinks—the kind that actually boost your SEO—is supposed to cost thousands of dollars and require relationships with entire marketing teams. Meanwhile, startups are out here begging for links and getting nothing in return. So they built MarketingDB, a platform that gives the next generation of SaaS companies free dofollow backlinks. No strings. No outreach hell. Just submit your project and get the SEO juice you need to actually rank.

Backlinks are the lifeblood of organic traffic, and dofollow links are the gold standard—but the industry has made them artificially scarce and expensive. MarketingDB flips that script entirely. They're building what looks like a community-driven link exchange specifically for SaaS and startups. No more buying links from sketchy networks or cold emailing 50 blogs hoping one says yes. They've already approved projects like BAIZAAR and RoboApply onto the platform. Is it the sexiest AI tool out there? Nope. But it's solving a $20 billion SEO industry's worth of pain for bootstrapped founders who can't afford agency retainers.

They're based wherever these five are working remotely, and if you're building a SaaS product and need actual SEO results without spending your entire marketing budget on link building, this is worth a try.