Directory owner program
Owners of real product, SaaS, AI, app, startup, or developer-tool directories can apply for a free manual review. Approval is not guaranteed, cannot be purchased, and may be paused or revoked if the directory no longer meets the published requirements.
Verified registry
The audit evaluates the current directory experience. Marketing claims, sponsorship, and payment cannot replace observable public evidence.
The directory must produce a public product page or record that helps its stated audience understand or discover the accepted product types.
A builder must be able to request or create a useful listing without a hidden final-step fee, forced badge, or reciprocal backlink.
Reviewers need to inspect the required fields, account behavior, verification, legal confirmations, final action, and expected result safely.
Why participate
Registry metadata helps the product decide who fits, which fields are required, what can be automated, and what result should be recorded.
Accepted product types, platforms, regions, categories, assets, and exclusions help the registry avoid irrelevant submissions.
Each campaign uses one confirmed Launch Master instead of unrelated copy and unsupported claims.
A versioned target record defines the free path, required fields, expected result, and human-attention boundaries.
Eligibility boundary
The audit compares the current public workflow with the conditions that make a target ineligible or unsafe.
Eligible signal
Not eligible
Application summary
Approval is a candidate decision, not a guarantee of production release timing or campaign inclusion.
Confirm that the directory has a real public result, usable free path, relevant audience, and repeatable workflow.
Provide the current URLs, example listings, accepted products, fee disclosure, audience evidence, and review process.
The application enters a separate candidate process. Submission does not create a production target.
Approved candidates still require host rules, eligibility metadata, result detection, staging, and a future signed release.
Owners or operators of real product, SaaS, AI, app, startup, software-alternative, or developer-tool directories can apply when they can verify ownership and explain the audience, accepted product types, submission path, review process, and public listing result.
The review checks ownership, public listings, audience relevance, accepted products, the free submission path, field and asset requirements, privacy and contact information, safety signals, workflow repeatability, and whether the resulting state can be detected and recorded.
No. A directory cannot buy approval, faster review, registry priority, campaign inclusion, or a better eligibility result. Sponsorship and optional promotion cannot change the audit decision.
Approval creates a reviewed candidate for a future signed registry release. The target still needs verified host rules, eligibility metadata, expected result detection, and release staging before it can enter a campaign.
A target can be paused or revoked when its free path, ownership, audience, safety, workflow, result, or public listing quality changes. Approval is not permanent and does not prevent future audit action.
Free manual review
Prepare ownership evidence, example public listings, accepted product types, fee disclosure, and the current submission URL before applying.
