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Which directories should my SaaS be listed in?

To find the directories your SaaS should be listed in, match your category and your tech stack against directories that are still accepting submissions. This tool does that: it reads your site, works out what you sell and what you are built on, and returns the directories, partner programs and review sites you qualify for, with what each application asks for. Every result is fetched and confirmed to exist before it is shown, so nothing here is a dead link from a listicle written in 2023.

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The list of directories we check against

Every one of these exists and accepted submissions when it was last checked by hand. What each asks for is listed, so you can pick the cheap ones first.

  • Product HuntFree · saas, devtool, marketplace

    A launch, not a listing. Worth doing once, on a day you can be present in the comments all day.

    • Create the account at least a week before launching, or the post gets throttled.
    • Prepare a gallery image and a thumbnail. Text-only posts do badly.
    • Be available to reply in the comments for the whole launch day.
  • G2Free · saas

    Free to list. Reviews are the whole point and they take asking for, so list first and ask later.

    • Claim the profile with a work email on your own domain.
    • Pick the category your buyers search, not the one that flatters the product.
    • Ask three existing customers for a review in the first week or the profile stays empty.
  • CapterraFree tier · saas

    Free listing, paid placement. The free listing is worth having; the paid placement is a Tier 1 decision, not a Tier 0 one.

    • Choose the category before writing, because the description is read against it.
    • Have pricing ready. A listing with no pricing gets filtered out of most searches.
  • ClutchFree · agency, consultancy

    The main directory buyers of services actually search. Verified reviews carry the ranking.

    • List two or three services rather than everything you could do.
    • Line up one client willing to do a verified phone review; ranking is driven by them.
    • Have a minimum project size ready. Leaving it blank attracts the wrong enquiries.
  • The ManifestFree · agency, consultancy

    Sister site to Clutch, same profile data, separate listing. Cheap to do once Clutch is written.

    • Reuse the Clutch copy. It is the same buyer reading a different page.
  • GitHub topicsFree · devtool

    Not a directory in form but the one developers browse. Topics on the repository are the listing.

    • Add five to eight topics to the repository, using the terms already popular on GitHub.
    • The repository description is the listing copy. It is 350 characters and it is what shows in search.
  • AlternativeToFree · saas, devtool

    People arrive here having decided to leave something else, which is the highest-intent moment there is.

    • Name the products you are genuinely an alternative to. Claiming an unrelated one gets the entry removed.
    • Add the platforms you actually run on.
  • CrunchbaseFree tier · any

    Not a source of buyers. It is what somebody checks after they have heard of you, which makes an empty profile a cost rather than a missed gain.

    • Add the founders with their LinkedIn profiles. A company with no named people reads as a shell.
    • Keep it factual. Everything here is checked against other sources.

How this works

  1. 1We read your homepage and classify what you sell against a curated category taxonomy. Rule-based, not inferred by a model.
  2. 2We detect your tech stack from the markup, then match it against a vendor-to-partner-program map. A partner directory of something you already use is the highest-yield listing nobody works systematically.
  3. 3We match your category against the catalogue and rank by how relevant each directory is to what you actually sell.
  4. 4We fetch every candidate and confirm it exists and still accepts submissions. Anything that fails is discarded silently rather than shown with a warning.
  5. 5We report what each application requires, so you can tell in advance which are worth an afternoon.

What it cannot tell you

  • We only return directories we could reach and confirm. A directory that was down when we checked will not appear.
  • If your site does not say plainly what you sell, we return fewer results and tell you that is why, rather than guessing at a category.
  • Being listed is not the same as being found. A directory listing is worth having and is not a growth strategy.
  • We do not submit anything for you, and we never will. Applications are read by people and a submitted form from a robot reads exactly like one.

Questions people ask

Which directories should a SaaS be listed in?

Start with the partner or integration directory of every tool you already build on, because you qualify automatically and almost nobody works them. Then category directories where your buyer is actually looking. Broad startup listings are the least valuable and the most crowded.

Are there good alternatives to Product Hunt?

Yes, and most of them convert better for a specific product, because the audience is narrower. A launch on a general site reaches people who collect launches. A listing in the partner directory of a tool your buyer already pays for reaches people with the problem.

Do SaaS directory submissions help SEO?

Some of them, a little. A relevant referring domain is worth having; a listing on a directory nobody reads is worth roughly nothing and occasionally worse. Relevance decides it, not the directory’s own authority score.

How long does a directory submission take?

From ten minutes to an afternoon, depending on whether they want a description or a demo video and screenshots. We list what each one asks for so you can pick the cheap ones first.

The short version, if you would rather not run it

Directory listings are the most tedious growth work there is, which is exactly why they still work. Nobody does them systematically, so the ones that matter are less crowded than any channel you can buy into.

The highest-yield category is the one people forget: the partner and integration directories of the tools you already build on. If you integrate with a payment processor or a CRM, that company usually runs a directory of products that work with theirs. You qualify by construction, the audience is people already paying for something adjacent, and almost nobody applies.

The failure mode is applying everywhere. A listing on a directory your buyer has never opened costs an afternoon and returns nothing, and enough of them start to look like exactly what they are. Relevance is the only thing that decides whether a listing is worth the time.

Check that a directory is alive before you write anything for it. A large share of the lists circulating online name directories that stopped accepting submissions years ago, because the list was copied rather than checked.

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