Where entries come from, how to get yours in, and why two products can share one.
Nobody submits an app to AppWatch. Entries come from public sources, and the domain decides whether two things we found are the same product.
If your app turned up here and you did not put it there, that is why. If you are trying to get one in, the short answer is that you watch it, and the last section has the rest.
Public launch feeds, app stores, and the links products publish about themselves. Every entry starts as a URL somebody else made public, and the first thing we do is open the homepage and read what the product says about itself.
Adding a watch on a domain we have never seen also creates the entry. That is the only way anything gets added by hand.
The domain is what decides it. If a product moves from acme.dev to acme.com, that is two entries until we see the redirect, and one after.
Two products on the same domain are one entry, which is where this most often gets it wrong: a company shipping three tools under one site is one row here. The alternative would be merging two unrelated companies that happen to have similar names, which is worse. We match on links, never on names.
Plenty of products live at a subdomain while the bare domain has nothing on it, so we check the homepage rather than the domain itself. That is why an entry can be live even when the bare domain is not.
A product hosted on somebody else's platform gets its own subdomain as the entry, never the platform. Otherwise your product would show up as theirs.
Watch it. Enter the domain on your watchlist and if we have never seen it we create the entry and start checking it. It is the same record everyone else gets, checked on the same schedule.
If it is your own product, you can then claim the listing and propose corrections to it.
See remove your app. Short version: we will stop publishing a listing on request, and we do not require a reason.