I’m putting together IndieNeed’s directories page as a simple place to find useful directories when you’re ready to share a project.
If you’re building a directory, or know a good place makers should list, I’d love to hear about it: https://www.indieneed.com/directories
What directories or discovery helpers have been useful for you?
The useful version of a directories page is not the list, it is one column saying whether a listing still does anything. Most of these pages are fifty links where half the sites are abandoned and you cannot tell which half. Two things worth recording per directory: whether the listing page actually gets indexed, which you can check by searching the name of a product listed there, and whether the outbound link is followed. For most makers the durable value of a listing is search visibility months later rather than the referral spike in week one, and those two checks sort the list by exactly that.