A launch directory that looks like a city. Every approved listing becomes a building on a live isometric map — not row 4,812 of a table nobody scrolls.
The list (150 directories) · Badges · Submission tooling · saascity.io
directories.md |
150 launch platforms and SaaS directories with Ahrefs DR, link type and entry price. Free subset of the SaaSCity dataset. |
data/ |
The same list as JSON and CSV, for anyone who'd rather script it than read it. CC BY 4.0. |
scripts/ |
The tool we use to submit to GitHub-hosted lists: fork → branch → edit → PR, with a dry-run mode. MIT. |
badge/ |
Embed snippets for products listed on SaaSCity. |
A directory listing is worth something when a human sees it. Most directories are a table sorted by "featured" — the reader bounces at row 20, and listing #400 has never been looked at by anyone.
SaaSCity renders every listing as a building in one continuous isometric city. Position, height and neighbours are visible at a glance, the map is explorable, and the whole thing is one page a visitor actually moves around in. Same listings, a surface people stay on.
flowchart LR
A[Submit<br/>~2 minutes] --> B{Manual review<br/>within 24h}
B -->|approved| C[Listing page<br/>indexed]
C --> D[Building appears<br/>on the city map]
C --> E{Launch week}
E -->|badge verified| F[Next Monday<br/>dofollow link]
E -->|no badge| G[Queued week<br/>nofollow link]
- Submit — name, URL, one-liner, category. Takes about two minutes.
- Review — every submission is read by a human within 24 hours. It is a curated directory; not everything gets in.
- Go live — you get an indexed product page and a building on the map.
- Launch week — launches run in weekly cycles starting Monday. Put the SaaSCity badge on your site and verify it, and your launch moves to the next Monday with a dofollow link. Skip the badge and you go into the queued week with a nofollow link.
Free listings stay free. Paid tiers (faster placement, featured slots, billboards) are on the site — this repo doesn't need to sell them to you.
150 directories worth submitting to, sorted by Domain Rating, with the link type verified on a live listing rather than copied from the directory's own marketing page.
# or take the data
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n1-ghosty/saascity-launch-kit/main/data/directories.json | jq '.directories[] | select(.dofollow and .pricing == "free") | .name'Top 15 by Domain Rating
| Directory | DR | Link | Entry price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 95 | nofollow | free | |
| Forbes Cloud 100 | 94 | nofollow | free |
| Trustpilot | 94 | nofollow | freemium |
| Digg | 92 | nofollow | free |
| Fastcompany | 92 | nofollow | free |
| Sourceforge | 92 | dofollow | freemium |
| Stack Overflow | 92 | nofollow | free |
| TechCrunch | 92 | nofollow | paid |
| The Verge | 92 | nofollow | free |
| Wired | 92 | nofollow | free |
| BostInno Startups, Tech News and Events | 91 | nofollow | free |
| Capterra | 91 | dofollow | freemium |
| Clutch | 91 | nofollow | free |
| CNET | 91 | nofollow | free |
| Crunchbase | 91 | nofollow | freemium |
The full 2,404-directory dataset — submission URLs, review turnaround, dead-link sweeps, badge-exchange requirements — is a paid product on saascity.io. This subset is free forever and takes PRs.
Submitting to a GitHub-hosted awesome-list is the same eight steps every time: fork, sync, branch, fetch the file, insert your row in the right section with the right column count, commit, PR, repeat. scripts/submit_to_lists.py does it from a config file, with --dry so you can see every diff before anything is pushed.
python3 scripts/submit_to_lists.py --dry # print the diffs, touch nothing
python3 scripts/submit_to_lists.py # fork, commit, open the PRsIt matches an anchor line in the target file and inserts relative to it, so your row lands inside the correct section and alphabetical position instead of being appended to whatever table happened to be last. Requires the gh CLI, authenticated.
Submit to lists you belong on. A directory list is a curated thing and maintainers can tell — a row jammed into an unrelated section gets closed, and it should.
Listed on SaaSCity? Grab a badge. Verifying it on your site is what moves your launch to the next Monday with a dofollow link.
Dead link, moved DR, a directory that should be here and isn't — CONTRIBUTING.md. Data corrections are the most useful PRs; the list decays without them.
Code (scripts/) is MIT. The directory data in data/ and directories.md is CC BY 4.0 — use it, ship it, sell around it, just keep the attribution line.