Launch recaps, teardowns, and posts about running a directory in public, including the parts that are not going well.
Our front page has no curated lists and no admin screen behind it. Every shelf is computed, and a shelf with nothing in it does not render at all. Here is why that rule turned out to matter.
Every listing in this directory carries a pricing model. Counting them turns up a lopsided distribution, one tag that means less than it looks, and a category that has quietly given up on free.
We promise that paying us cannot move a product up the leaderboard. Here is the mechanism that makes it true, and why it lives in the linter rather than in a policy document.
We publish thousands of pages and ask Google to ignore most of them. Here is the bar a page has to clear, why it is set there, and what the current numbers are.