Field notes from running a hand-checked product directory: what gets accepted, what reads as spam, where directory listings still help, and how to write pages people can actually use.
Ask ChatGPT for the best tool in your category and you may hear three competitors and not you. Here is how AI assistants actually pick the products they name, and what a small team can do about it this month.
Most failed SaaS products were built well. They were just built for a problem nobody would pay to fix. Here is how to find that out in two weeks instead of six months.
A thousand listings that all read the same way is not a directory, it is a doorway page. What we do about it.
Free, Premium and Featured all go through the same review. What a paid package moves, what it does not, and why you pay after approval rather than before.
Anyone can fill in a form. Here is what happens between your submission and the listing appearing, and why some never make it.