Directory and community listing submissions eat entire days and get forgotten
Problem Breakdown
A proven early-growth tactic is submitting your product to the hundred or so directories, newsletters, and communities that accept launches. Each submission takes 10-20 minutes: different forms, different tagline lengths, different image sizes. Founders start enthusiastically, submit to ten, and never finish the list.
The lists of directories floating around are stale: half the sites are dead or no longer accept submissions. Tracking where you submitted, what got approved, and what brought traffic becomes a spreadsheet nobody maintains.
The result: products miss easy backlinks and referral traffic that competitors routinely collect.
Solution Architecture
Build a directory submission assistant. It keeps a maintained, verified database of directories and newsletters that accept products (dead ones pruned regularly). The founder enters their product once; the tool generates platform-specific submissions with correct tagline lengths, descriptions, and image formats, and submits the ones with APIs or auto-fills forms where possible.
A tracking dashboard shows submission status, approval status, and referral traffic per directory, so the founder finally knows which listings actually matter.
Your Build Prompt
You are an experienced full-stack developer. Build a complete, working version of the following tool. Do not ask questions, do not leave placeholders, do not write TODOs. Make real, working code that runs on the first try. TOOL: Directory and community listing submissions eat entire days and get forgotten WHAT IT MUST DO: Build a directory submission assistant. It keeps a maintained, verified database of directories and newsletters that accept products (dead ones pruned regularly). The founder enters their product once; the tool generates platform-specific submissions with correct tagline lengths, descriptions, and image formats, and submits the ones with APIs or auto-fills forms where possible. CORE FEATURES TO BUILD: 1. A maintained directory database with verification checks that prune dead sites 2. A one-time product profile with reusable descriptions and assets 3. Submission generators per directory with correct lengths and formats 4. Automated submission where APIs allow, guided auto-fill elsewhere 5. A status dashboard: submitted, approved, rejected, live link 6. Referral traffic attribution per directory TECH STACK: Next.js, TypeScript, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Cron jobs RULES: - Use strict TypeScript everywhere. Define proper types and interfaces. No any. - Validate all user input with a schema library (Zod or equivalent). - Handle errors cleanly: show a clear message to the user, log the detail for the developer. - Handle loading and empty states in every view. - Make it fully responsive: mobile, tablet, and desktop. - Keep the design clean and professional: clear typography, good spacing, real icons (Lucide), smooth hover states. SETUP: Start from a fresh Next.js (App Router) TypeScript project and build the features above one by one, verifying each runs before moving to the next. Finish with a short summary of what was built and how to run it.
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