SaaS and developer tool directories, in short
SaaS directories expect a product someone can pay for today: live pricing, a working trial, and a page that explains what the thing does. A waitlist will usually be rejected, or worse, accepted and then ignored.
What counts as a SaaS directory
A SaaS directory indexes subscription software by category, and usually by price, integrations and target company size as well. The audience is people comparing three or four options with a budget already approved, which makes these pages worth more per visitor than almost anything else on this list. B2B directories in particular are read by buyers, not browsers.
What separates a real SaaS directory from a list is whether it maintains the entries. Pricing changes, products get acquired, features move between tiers. A directory that has not touched its entries in two years will happily take your submission and then bury it under a hundred dead listings.
By the numbers
These 21 directories have a median rating of DR 71. The strongest is Product Hunt at DR 91, the weakest at DR 29. 6 of them accept a submission for nothing, and 5 charge for every listing. 11 pass a dofollow link.
That is 13 points above the median for the full list of 175 directories, which sits at DR 58. By band that is 3 rated 80 or above, 11 rated 60 to 79, 3 rated 40 to 59 and 4 rated below 40. 6 of them have no traffic estimate at all, which usually means too little to measure rather than none.
What a listing actually gets you
A listing here converts at rates the general directories cannot approach, because everyone reading it is already looking for what you built. Ten visitors from a developer directory will often outperform a thousand from a launch platform on any metric you care about after the first week.
There is a second effect worth knowing about. Developer directories are heavily represented in the training and retrieval data behind coding assistants, so a listing increasingly determines whether your tool gets suggested when someone asks an AI how to solve the problem you solve.
Submitting without wasting the evening
Link the documentation, not the marketing page. Developers arriving from these sites want to see the install command, the API surface and the licence before they will consider anything else. An honest limitations section converts better here than a feature list, because the audience will find the limitations anyway. If your tool is open source, say so prominently: it is the single strongest signal on most of these sites.
Common mistakes
Submitting before anyone can sign up is the big one, and it is the reason most SaaS rejections happen. After that: hiding pricing, which gets you filtered out of every comparison page the directory builds; using a description written for investors rather than users; and ignoring the category field, which is what determines whether your listing ever appears on a page anyone reads.
Where to start
By audience size, the biggest here are Product Hunt, TrustMRR and StackShare, led by 4.84M visits a month. The highest-rated one you can use without paying is Product Hunt at DR 91. 5 approve quickly, StackShare, Dofollow Tools and SideProjectors among them.
Questions people ask
How many are there, and what do they cost?
21 directories match on this page. 6 take a submission for nothing, 10 run a free tier with paid upgrades, and 2 charge for every listing.
Which should I submit to first?
By rating, Product Hunt (DR 91), AppSumo (DR 83) and Dang.ai (DR 82). By audience, Product Hunt is the largest at 4.84M visits a month. Relevance beats both: a directory that actually covers what you built will do more than a stronger one that does not.
What is a SaaS directory?
An index of subscription software, organised so a buyer can compare several options against each other. Most include pricing, categories and integrations; the better ones add verified reviews and keep the entries current.
Are SaaS directories worth it for B2B?
Usually more than for consumer tools. B2B buyers research through comparison pages, and a directory listing puts you in that comparison at the point where the decision is being made rather than at the top of the funnel.
Do I need reviews before submitting?
No, but a listing with no reviews on a directory that shows them will sit below ones that have them. If the directory supports reviews, line up three or four customers to leave one in the week after your listing goes live.
Why do developer directories send so little traffic?
Because developers do not browse directories, they search for a specific problem and land on one page. The visit counts are low and the conversion rates are not comparable to anything else on this list.
Does open source help?
Considerably. Several of these directories either prioritise open-source entries or have a dedicated section for them, and the audience treats a public repository as evidence that the tool is real.
Should I submit a library or just the product?
Both, if they are genuinely separate. A library and the hosted service built on it are two different things to two different readers, and most directories are happy to list them separately.
Every figure quoted above is read off the table on this page, so it moves as the list does. Domain rating and traffic are third-party estimates captured in September 2026: useful for ordering a shortlist, not precise figures.