SaaSCity is a SaaS and AI tool catalog and launch platform centered on an interactive city map as its core presentation method, rather than a traditional list-style directory. Every submitted product is mapped to a building on the map, with the product's logo on the building, linking to a standalone, Google-indexable product page that includes a dofollow backlink. The entire map is not a decorative element: buildings gain floors as products receive votes, views, and daily activity, so the skyline reflects in real time which products are actually being used.
Key Capabilities
- Gamified city map directory: Every submitted product becomes a building on the map, linked to a standalone indexable page.
- Product launch rounds: Products launch in weekly rounds, and the community votes over an entire week, rather than a single-day leaderboard.
- Building growth mechanism: Buildings gain floors based on votes, views, and daily activity. Floors cannot be purchased; paid plans are only used to speed up review and obtain launch articles, and do not involve ranking.
- Permanent listing: After launch week ends, the product page remains indexed, the dofollow backlink remains valid, and the building remains on the map.
- New and Best rankings: "New" is sorted by most recent launch time; "Best" is sorted by points within each category, with points coming from votes, views, and daily activity.
- Multilingual support: The map, submission process, pricing, dashboard, and directory guide support English, German, Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese; blog posts and legal pages are English only; founder-written listing content is recommended to be in English because the audience is international. An English homepage for India is also available.
How to Use
The launch process starts with pasting a product URL and takes about ten minutes to go live, with most of the time spent on form autofill.
- Paste the product URL: The platform reads the page and pre-fills the name, tagline, description, category, and logo, and all fields are editable.
- Choose a launch method:
- Free + place a SaaSCity badge: Enters the weekly queue, with up to 15 free slots per week.
- Quick Pass (one-time $19.99): No badge required, skip the queue, review within 24 hours.
- Premium (one-time $39.99): On top of Quick Pass, the team writes a launch article, published within 3 days, including 3 dofollow links.
- Book a launch weekRounds open every Monday at 00:00 UTC and last a full week. The calendar shows which weeks still have slots; free slots have a weekly cap, while paid listings are unlimited.
- Manual review: Every submission is manually checked, usually completed within a few hours and normally no more than 24 hours. Once approved, the dofollow link goes live immediately, the building appears on the map, and voting takes place during the launch week.
Use cases
- Founders launching a new product: Gives the product a fixed launch day and a group of like-minded builders who will actually click.
- SEO professionals building a backlink profile: Get a topical, niche-relevant link on a page with real content, rather than a link farm entry. Only one listing per domain ensures link quality.
- Builders looking for tools: Discover products newly launched this week before they reach major newsletters, browse the map by category, or check the Live feed.
Current scale and data
- There are currently 1,306 products on the map.
- The domain has an Ahrefs Domain Rating of 68.
- 2,643+ founders have already built here.
- The site offers a directory submission service: manually submitting a product to 100 to 370 directories, with a report and screenshots for each submission sent by email, starting at a one-time $99.
- Guide pages such as the best directories, AI tool directories, free dofollow directories, and Product Hunt alternatives help users complete the other steps of their launch.
limitations and notes
- Free listings require placing a SaaSCity badge on the homepage, and the weekly free slot cap is 15.
- Paid plans only affect review speed and whether a launch article is included; they do not affect ranking.
- Only one listing is allowed per domain.
- Products must actually exist, be accessible via a valid URL, and be usable by real people; waitlist pages are not accepted.
- Pricing: Free (with badge), Quick Pass one-time $19.99, Premium one-time $39.99; directory submission service starts at a one-time $99.
- saascity.io is the only official SaaSCity domain; other websites using this name are misleading clones and have no affiliation with it.
- SaaSCity is run by an independent two-person team.
Categories
The platform covers categories such as AI and machine learning (the largest category on the map), SaaS and B2B, developer tools, productivity, marketing, design, fintech, and web3.
