campaign: growth

directories

listings

Directory submissions — ranked worklist

Work top to bottom. Every directory asks for the same five things in five different lengths, so the copy below is written once and pasted everywhere — the brand then reads identically across the web. Pricing stays Free forever · Pro $19/mo · Teams $70/mo.

Work the list in this order

Ranked by search intent × audience fit ÷ effort, not by directory size. The top three are where someone actively looking to replace PuTTY or WinSCP will find us; everything below that is reach or reputation.

If you only do three: AlternativeTo → Slant → Hackster. Those capture people who are already shopping for this exact tool, and none of them need approval from us to be worth doing.

#DirectoryWhy hereEffortStatus
1 AlternativeTo The whole product line is “replace PuTTY + WinSCP”, and this is where that search lands. Ten /vs/ pages already exist to link from the profile. Evergreen, free, highest intent on the list. ~30 min Unverified
2 Slant “Best SSH client” list pages rank well and stay ranked. No profile to approve — you add AidaIDE as an option with a rationale, so it goes live the same day. ~20 min Unverified
3 Hackster.io Smaller than the generic directories but the audience is the target: IoT, embedded, and hardware. Confirmed no profile exists today. ~30 min Not listed
4 StackShare Dev-tool discovery plus a durable backlink. Cheap once the copy below exists. ~20 min Unverified
5 SaaSHub Its alternatives graph points back at the /vs/ cluster. Confirmed missing, quick to add. ~15 min Not listed (404)
6 Indie Hackers Founder audience rather than sysadmin, so weaker fit — but the product page is free and pairs with build-in-public posts. ~20 min Unverified
7 BetaList Early-adopter crowd, not fleet operators. Confirmed missing and quick, so worth doing — just not before the above. ~15 min Not listed (404)
8 Product Hunt Highest ceiling on the list and the only one-shot entry — you cannot re-launch a flat launch. Needs a hunter, gallery, and a day someone can sit on comments. Deliberately ranked below the evergreen work. Half a day Unverified
9 Softpedia · MajorGeeks Real download traffic for Windows desktop tools, but slow editorial review and the visitor is rarely a fleet operator. ~30 min each Not started
10 SourceForge Only as a download mirror. Weak brand fit for a commercial IDE — do it last, or not at all. ~30 min Not started

Not on the list yet, on purpose

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G2 · Capterra · GetApp These rank on review count. An empty profile reads as a dead product and is hard to un-publish. Park until a handful of customers have agreed to review, then do all three in one pass.
WinGet · Chocolatey Package manifests, not listings — an engineering task against winget-pkgs needing a silent-install flow. The Scoop decision ruled out extract-style packaging but explicitly favours these run-the-installer channels, so this is the right next packaging move.
MicroLaunch Already submitted and awaiting review — nothing to do but re-check. It is the only URL currently in Organization.sameAs; if the review rejects it, remove that line.

Submission entry points

Only links returning 200 from CI are given directly. The rest sit behind bot protection, so use the site’s own submit flow rather than a guessed path — a wrong deep link was already caught this way (SaaSHub’s /submit-service is a 404).

Status checked 2026-07-26 with a real browser engine. “Unverified” means Cloudflare or a Vercel checkpoint blocked the check, not that the listing is missing — confirm while signed in. Treat any automated “found” result on those hosts as a false positive; the challenge page echoes the URL back.
Rule: only add a directory URL to Organization.sameAs in index.html once it returns 200 and the page names AidaIDE. A sameAs entry that 404s is worse than no entry.

Identity fields

Descriptions by length

Pick the one that fits the field. They say the same thing, so the listings stay consistent.

Categories & tags

Directories rank on category fit. These map cleanly onto the taxonomies the targets actually use.

Assets

Lead with the SSH + SFTP workspace shot, not an AI screenshot — the listing has to answer “what is it” before “what else does it do”.

Links to include

Swap utm_source for the directory name so the dashboard can attribute signups per listing.

After a listing goes live

Community blitz kit vs comparison hub Signup / download
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