Uncategorised decision
AI Website Directory
A small, single-tenant directory with an API is realistic for one capable developer to build and maintain; most of the product's durable value (community, traffic, curation) would be lost and is not reproduced by a simple replacement.
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Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off40 h to build
$35/mo3 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Users submit tool listings, community votes and reviews, listings rank and appear in leaderboards, and an API exposes published tools and categories.
What it still won’t have
- Existing community, traffic, and vendor relationships
- Established leaderboard and historical votes
- Any proprietary curation or editorial processes
- Built-in MCP integration examples and existing developer API keys
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
AI Website Directory does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal AI tools directory using Next.js (React) for the frontend, Express (Node.js) for the API, and PostgreSQL for storage. Core features in scope: public browseable category and search pages, tool detail pages with screenshots, a submit form for new tools (including image upload to S3-compatible storage), community voting (one vote per IP/user), an admin review UI to approve/reject submissions, an authenticated developer API endpoint requiring x-api-key that returns JSON /api/products and /api/categories, and a scheduled job to recalculate leaderboards. Out of scope: multi-tenant accounts, paid listings, advanced analytics dashboards, and a full gamified reputation system. Include API-key issuance and revocation endpoints, input validation, rate limiting, logging, error handling, unit and integration tests, and deployment configs for Vercel (frontend) and a single DigitalOcean droplet or managed Postgres. Provide a README with setup, seeding, and migration commands.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Build verdict base78
- 2 cited sources+1
- Evidence score79
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productAI Website Directory | Discover Best AI Tools
- official docsAPI Docs — AI Website Directory
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
