About

Why this exists

Every tool directory lets you filter by category and none of them let you filter by form. But “I need a Chrome extension that checks SERP positions, free” is how people actually search — the shape of the thing is often the constraint, not the job it does. So platform is a first-class filter here, with its own page for each one, sitting alongside category, pricing and team size. All four combine.

The second reason is smaller and more annoying: most directories take a submission and then go quiet for three months. Here you get a link that shows where yours actually stands, with no account to make.

What gets in

Four things, and they are not subtle:

• It exists and works. Publicly usable today. Not a waitlist, not a landing page with a form.
• It helps someone grow something. Broad, deliberately — but a project management tool that a marketing team happens to use is in, and a general-purpose database is not.
• The pricing is honest. If the site says free and the product is a seven-day trial, that gets corrected or it does not go in.
• Somebody would be glad to have found it. The only genuinely subjective one, and the one that does most of the work.

What gets turned down

Duplicates, dead links, waitlists, thin listings, and anything that is not really a growth tool. Every decline comes with a reason in plain words, and most of them can be fixed and resubmitted. There is no penalty for a second attempt.

What we change

Most listings get edited before publication — a tighter tagline, a corrected category, a pricing model fixed to match what the site actually says. Submitters write marketing copy; a directory is worth reading because somebody turned it into a description. What never changes is the substance of what your product does.

What is not for sale

Listings, review speed, position, and feature slots. None of it, at any price. The only commercial surface is sponsorship of the newsletter, which is clearly marked and buys nothing in the catalogue. If that ever changes, it will be said here first and in larger type than this.

Who runs it

One person, reviewing everything by hand, which is why it takes about five days and why the queue is a real queue. If a listing is wrong, that is a mistake rather than a policy, and telling us about it is genuinely useful.

The numbering

Every published tool gets a specimen number in sequence, assigned when it goes live and never reused — even if the tool is later unpublished. A low number means a listing has been here a while. It is a small thing, but it makes the catalogue an honest record rather than a list that quietly rewrites itself.