If you just found Spotlitely, welcome. This is where developers, designers, AI builders, and indie makers share the links worth keeping: tools they use daily, essays that changed how they think, and projects worth knowing about, whether they made it themselves or just found it first. No algorithm decides what rises. Real people vote with reactions, and the best links win. Here's everything you need to know to get started.
Spotlitely is a community link aggregator. Members submit a URL along with a short title and description, and the community votes on it using reactions. A scoring system that rewards genuine engagement over raw volume decides what rises to the top of the feed.
As long as you have the right to share it, a tool you use every day, an essay you read last week, or a product someone else launched counts just as much as something you built yourself. You do not need to be the author or the creator. The single exception is the Show feed, covered further down, which is reserved for projects you actually built.
Everything goes live the moment you submit it. There is no approval queue and no moderator standing between you and the feed. If what you shared is genuinely useful, interesting, or great, the community will find it and send it up.
Spotlitely is not an opinion framing site. When you submit something you found, whether it is an article, a tool, or a project someone else built, the title and description should represent it fairly: pulled from the source, not spun to make a point. The whole idea is sharing something you found genuinely useful or interesting, not picking it apart or mocking it.
If a submission crosses the line anyway, anyone can flag it. Every report is reviewed by a moderator, usually within 24 hours, and anything adversarial, controversial, or otherwise against the guidelines gets removed. Repeat offenders are banned. The full rules live on the Guidelines page.
Spotlitely is built for people who are actively building, researching, or thinking seriously about technology and products. If any of these describe you, you are in the right place:
Browse the Hot feed
The default view shows what the community is reacting to right now. Links at the top have earned their position through genuine votes, not ad spend or follower count. Scroll through and see what catches your attention.
React to a link you find useful
Each link shows four reaction options: Useful, Interesting, Love, and Meh. Pick the one that fits. Your vote is not decorative, it directly shapes what rises and falls on the feed. One reaction from you counts the same as one from anyone else.
Submit something you found this week
Paste a URL, add its real title and a short description pulled from the source, pick a category, and hit submit. It goes live immediately, and if the link is good, reactions will follow within minutes.
The four reactions are not equal. Each one carries a different weight in the scoring system:
The score also decays continuously over time. A link submitted three days ago is at a natural disadvantage against something fresh with the same votes. That keeps the feed from stagnating: good content from today competes with good content from yesterday on fair terms.
If you have ever used Hacker News, the mechanics of our Hot and New feeds will feel right at home.
Every link on Spotlitely belongs to one of six categories. When you submit, pick the one that fits best. This helps the community find what they are looking for and keeps the feed filterable.
The Leaderboard ranks the top contributors on Spotlitely. Points are earned when your submitted links get Useful, Interesting, and Love reactions from other readers. The more consistently good your submissions are, the higher your score climbs.
It is also a good way to find people worth following. The members at the top have a track record of bringing good things to the community, so it is worth a browse if you are new and trying to calibrate what belongs here.
No. You can submit any link you have the right to share: something you built, something you read, or a tool you use regularly. The one exception is the Show feed, which is reserved for projects, products, or things you actually made.
Each reaction (Useful, Interesting, Love, or Meh) carries a different weight, and the resulting score decays over time. That keeps the feed fresh: a good link from today competes fairly with a good link from yesterday, and nothing sits at the top forever just because it got there first.
Show is where builders post things they made themselves: apps, products, side projects, and launches. You mark a submission as a Show post with a checkbox when you submit it.
Yes. Browsing, reacting, and submitting links are all free. Spotlitely also offers paid advertising placements for businesses that want extra visibility in the feed.
About a minute. Paste the URL, add its real title and a short description pulled from the source, choose a category, and submit. It goes live immediately with no approval queue.
It takes about a minute and goes live immediately. Add the real title and a short description pulled from the source, then let the community decide if it belongs at the top.
Submit a link