About us
A shorter list, and a true one.
Finding software got harder as writing about it got cheaper. Most directories are scraped, most reviews are placements, and most listings outlive the product by years. We would rather publish less and mean it.
What we publish
Every product here has been opened, used where we could, and described in our own words. There are 124 of them across 6 categories, which is a small number on purpose. When something dies we take it down instead of letting it sink to the bottom of a page where it can still waste somebody's afternoon.
The profiles are drafted by AI from the product itself and from what the maker tells us, then read line by line before they go live. We cut whatever the product does not actually do. The point is not to produce text, it is to answer a question: what is this, who is it for, and is it worth your time. That is also what makes a page worth citing when somebody asks Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity or Grok the same question.
Why it costs money
Free listings are what turn a directory into a graveyard. One payment of $9.99 keeps the volume low enough that a person can still look at every submission, and it means we are paid by the makers whose products we describe rather than by whoever bids highest for a placement. Nobody buys a better position here, because there is nothing to buy: one price, one kind of listing, no ranking for sale.
How it is built
Deliberately boring, because a directory that breaks is a directory nobody trusts. Native PHP 8.2 with no Node runtime in production, Supabase over its REST API, Tailwind precompiled into a single static stylesheet, Cloudflare R2 for images, Polar for the one-time checkout, and a plain filesystem cache in front of it all. No build step on the server, no framework to chase, and no analytics vendor watching the people who read us.
If you made something good, put it in front of people who are actually looking for it. If you are looking, start with the list.