# MintedSaaS > Newly built SaaS, listed honestly. MintedSaaS is a curated directory of newly-built SaaS products. Every listing is reviewed before publication, links to a real working product, and has its homepage daily-checked for reachability and the backlink exchange that keeps the directory free. Current scale: 632 approved listings across 182 categories. --- ## What's here The site has four kinds of pages an AI agent might want to consume: 1. **Listing detail** at `https://mintedsaas.com/p/` The canonical page for a single product. Name, tagline, full description, pricing model, category, tags, screenshots, outbound link, comments, build-log entries, alternatives. JSON-LD `SoftwareApplication` schema embedded. 2. **Alternatives** at `https://mintedsaas.com/alternatives/` Hand-curated comparison page for a focal product. The focal can be a directory listing OR an external product (one we don't host but is referenced as a competitor). The page lists the directory listings that compete with the focal. JSON-LD `ItemList` + `FAQPage` schema. 3. **Category browse** at `https://mintedsaas.com/c/` All listings in a category. Plus programmatic SEO surfaces: - `https://mintedsaas.com/best/` and `https://mintedsaas.com/best//` - `https://mintedsaas.com/free/` and `https://mintedsaas.com/open-source/` - `https://mintedsaas.com/best//pricing/` - `https://mintedsaas.com/best//for/` 4. **Aggregate views** at `https://mintedsaas.com/audiences/` and `https://mintedsaas.com/platforms/` Listings filtered by a controlled-vocabulary audience or platform tag. --- ## Data feeds (use these instead of scraping HTML) - **`https://mintedsaas.com/sitemap.xml`** — every indexable URL on the site. - **`https://mintedsaas.com/api/listings`** — paginated JSON of all public listings. Query: `?limit=N&offset=N&category=&tags=&pricingType=`. Returns name, tagline, website URL, pricing, momentum label, outcome, category. For full descriptions hit the per-listing endpoint. - **`https://mintedsaas.com/api/listings/`** — full listing detail incl. description. - **`https://mintedsaas.com/api/listings//alternatives`** — directory listings that compete with this one (internal only). - **`https://mintedsaas.com/api/listings//external-alternatives`** — external products referenced as alternatives (with tagline + URL). - **`https://mintedsaas.com/api/categories`** — taxonomy. - **`https://mintedsaas.com/api/search?q=`** — FTS5-backed full-text search. - **`https://mintedsaas.com/md/`** — per-listing markdown export (name + tagline + description + alternatives, plain markdown). - **`https://mintedsaas.com/rss.xml`** — RSS feed of recent listings (catalogue-wide). - **`https://mintedsaas.com/c//rss.xml`** — per-category RSS feed. - **MCP server** (Model Context Protocol) — real-time tool-call access for AI agents. Endpoint: https://mcp.mintedsaas.com. Tools: `search_products`, `get_product`, `list_alternatives`, `compare`. --- ## Concepts ### Listing status Listings cycle through visibility states based on daily monitoring: - **LIVE** — backlink verified, homepage reachable. The default healthy state. - **QUIET** — no activity (build-log entries, comments, outbound clicks) in a long window. Still visible, still indexed, just unranked in "trending". - **UNREACHABLE** — homepage failed reachability checks for 7+ days. Visible with a warning banner. Hidden after 14 days. - **DELISTED_NO_BACKLINK** — backlink badge missing 3+ days. Hidden, kept in DB. Auto-restores when the badge is put back. - **ABANDONED** — unreachable for 60+ days. Hidden, kept in DB. Only **LIVE** and **QUIET** appear in public listings and in /sitemap.xml. ### Link attribute - **DOFOLLOW** outbound link — submitted listings whose backlink badge is verified, plus operator-owned listings. - **NOFOLLOW** — editorial seeds (operator-curated without a submission) and submitted listings whose backlink dropped. NOFOLLOW outbound links route through `https://mintedsaas.com/go/` for click tracking. ### Momentum A per-listing label computed daily from activity signals (build-log entries, comment volume, outbound click rate, freshness). Labels: `TRENDING`, `CONSISTENT`, `NEW`, `QUIET`. Never a raw score in the public API. ### Outcome (D-040) A listing can have a terminal outcome: `ACQUIRED`, `PIVOTED`, `SUNSET`, or `DEAD`. Outcomes get a banner on the listing page and feed the `https://mintedsaas.com/outcomes` aggregate. ### Alternatives A hand-curated graph (not category-derived). Edges are written by: 1. Admins via the listings management UI. 2. Approved submissions where the founder picked alternatives at submission time. External alts (URL + name) become `ExternalProduct` rows and get an `https://mintedsaas.com/alternatives/` SEO page; they NEVER auto- become directory listings (anti-abuse gate). ### Editorial vs operator vs submitted Three link-policy tiers: - **Submitted** — founder-submitted, default. NOFOLLOW until backlink verified, then DOFOLLOW. Daily backlink + reachability checks. - **Editorial seed** — operator-curated to populate the catalogue. NOFOLLOW via `/go/` always. Reachability monitored; backlink check skipped. - **Operator-owned** — operator's own products. DOFOLLOW + direct outbound. Reachability monitored; backlink check skipped. --- ## Policies - **No paid placement.** Ordering on category pages is by popularityScore (computed daily, not configurable per-listing). - **No upvote contests.** Engagement signals exist but they don't sort category pages. - **Comments** are plain text, posted immediately, screened against a banned-words list. Rate-limited per user. Auto-flagged comments are hidden pending admin review. - **Submissions** are manually reviewed before publication. No SLA promise. - **AI-generated content on programmatic SEO pages** (`/alternatives/`, `/best/`, etc.) is validated against a banned-vocabulary list to suppress the most common AI-tells; a single retry runs if the LLM leaks one of those phrases. --- ## Crawl + indexing notes - All listing pages live under `/p/`. The bare `/` namespace is reserved for top-level routes (`/about`, `/admin`, `/submit`, etc.) and 404s for product slugs. - `https://mintedsaas.com/go/` is a NOFOLLOW redirect for editorial + unverified listings; robots-blocked so the redirector itself never enters search. - `https://mintedsaas.com/api/*` is robots-blocked. - `https://mintedsaas.com/me/*` and `https://mintedsaas.com/admin/*` are robots-blocked + auth-gated. For licensing on the catalogue data, see https://mintedsaas.com/terms. Bot identification: https://mintedsaas.com/about/our-bot. Generated 2026-05-25.