Find SaaS built foryour company stage.

Strong idea. The stage-based filtering solves a real problem and removes most of the noise.What stands out is the positioning — “tools for your stage” is much clearer than generic rankings. The scoring system also makes sense and adds structure.Main risk is scaling and trust. Manual scoring won’t hold long-term, and users will need proof that rankings are accurate.Big opportunity is to double down on stage-fit as the core feature and make the value obvious сразу.Overall: solid and useful product with clear differentiation.

Tim Z.

Founder @ QuillHubIndieHacker

Ran into this building my own PM tooling. tools that make sense at 50 people are a trap for week-1 solo. it's not a preference thing - stage changes the whole problem. the filter should be stage first.

Mykola Kondratiuk

IndieHacker

Stage-fit really is the missing filter. “What’s the best CRM?” is basically a trick question without knowing headcount, motion, and budget, and founders waste months wrestling with tools that were never built for their stage in the first place.I like that you didn’t just make another directory, you picked a strong opinion and built around it. The six dimensions give it teeth too – especially Complexity and Pricing for solo/indie. Curious what’s surprised you most so far from the SSIE scoring and founder feedback: are most tools actually misaligned with the stage they think they serve?

Prasanta Raut

Co-Founder @ DialaxyIndieHacker

Stage based filtering makes sense. most tools lists are just seo pages, not decision tools.this feels closer to how founders actually choose

Julian Neagu

IndieHacker

The stage-based filtering is the part that stands out to me. A lot of directions assume the best tool for a 50-person team is also the best tool for a solo founder, which usually isn't true. Have you noticed any categories where the recommendations change the most between solo founders and Series A companies?

Candice

IndieHacker

Love the stage-based filtering approach. I was exactly this founder on the phone with tool reps asking 'what do solo founders use' versus Series A. The 6 dimensions framework is smart too because different stages truly do weight those factors completely differently. Are you seeing usage patterns where founders stick with their stage category as they grow, or do they jump around? Curious if that's becoming a retention/expansion signal.

Gal Dayan

Founder @ DialIndieHacker

This is a smart approach because the "best" tool for an enterprise team is usually just expensive bloat for a solo founder. Focusing on stage-fit solves a massive pain point that those bigger directories ignore, and I'm definitely going to check it out for my own stack.

Maryam Sultan

Digital PublisherIndieHacker

This resonates. I'm building a niche security tool right now and the hardest part isn't the tech, it's figuring out who actually needs it at what stage. A store owner who just got served a $25k demand letter has completely different needs than one proactively checking compliance. Your stage-based filtering makes sense because the "best" tool is meaningless without context. Curious, how do you handle products that genuinely serve multiple stages but with different use cases at each?

Dios

IndieHacker

Most tech directories force two-person startups to stare at enterprise software they can't afford, so filtering tools strictly by funding stage is the only way to save founders from total feature bloat.

Colin

IndieHacker

the hidden cost nobody talks about is migration. you pick the cheap tool "for now," knowing you'll switch later, then 6 months in you've got integrations, workflows, and team habits built around it. switching cost ends up dwarfing the subscription savings. stage-aware filtering helps because the right tool at pre-seed should still work at seed, you're not just matching price, you're matching growth trajectory.

Ozan Dagdeviren

Founder @ Aisa.toIndieHacker