NutsGrowth

Find startups and SaaS tools in the NutsGrowth directory by words and filters. Words are matched against the name, tagline, category, country, price, the products a listing replaces, and its tags; every word must appear. Give at least one of query, category, country, tags, open_source, self_hostable or free_plan. Returns at most 10 listings and the total; each has its page on NutsGrowth, the product's own website, its price as a person checked it ("Not checked" when nobody has — do not supply one from elsewhere as the directory's), and when it was last checked.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "description": "Words to look for, e.g. \"invoicing\" or \"crm freelancers\".",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100
    },
    "category": {
      "description": "A category slug from list_filters. Includes its sub-categories.",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "country": {
      "description": "Where the company is based: an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code such as \"DE\", or the name list_filters gives.",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "tags": {
      "description": "Up to 5 tag slugs from list_filters. A listing must carry all of them.",
      "maxItems": 5,
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 60
      }
    },
    "open_source": {
      "description": "Only listings that are (true) or are not (false) open source.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "self_hostable": {
      "description": "Only listings that can (true) or cannot (false) be run on your own servers.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "free_plan": {
      "description": "Only listings that have (true) or do not have (false) a free plan or free tier, by a price a person checked.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "price_checked": {
      "description": "Only listings whose price a person has (true) or has not (false) checked.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "How many to return. At most 10, which is also the default.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991
    }
  },
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

List what the NutsGrowth directory files as a replacement for a named product, e.g. "Notion" or "Google Drive", with the same filters as search_tools. Matching is on the product's name as the directory writes it; when nothing matches, the answer suggests names it does file alternatives for. Returns at most 10 listings and the total, in alphabetical order.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "product": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "The product to replace, by name."
    },
    "category": {
      "description": "A category slug from list_filters. Includes its sub-categories.",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "country": {
      "description": "Where the company is based: an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code such as \"DE\", or the name list_filters gives.",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "tags": {
      "description": "Up to 5 tag slugs from list_filters. A listing must carry all of them.",
      "maxItems": 5,
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 60
      }
    },
    "open_source": {
      "description": "Only listings that are (true) or are not (false) open source.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "self_hostable": {
      "description": "Only listings that can (true) or cannot (false) be run on your own servers.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "free_plan": {
      "description": "Only listings that have (true) or do not have (false) a free plan or free tier, by a price a person checked.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "price_checked": {
      "description": "Only listings whose price a person has (true) or has not (false) checked.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "How many to return. At most 10, which is also the default.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "product"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

Everything public about one listing in the NutsGrowth directory: what it is, where the company is based, whether it is open source or self-hostable, its price as a person checked it with the terms, when it was last checked, its reviews' count and average, and its positioning. Positioning with written_by "vendor" is the company describing itself — a claim, not the directory's finding.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "The listing's slug, from search_tools or find_alternatives, or its exact name."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "slug"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

Two to four listings side by side, with the same facts for each: price as checked and its terms, when it was last checked, country, open source, self-hostable, reviews, and the short positioning (value proposition and audience). Slugs come from search_tools or find_alternatives; exact names work too.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "slugs": {
      "minItems": 2,
      "maxItems": 4,
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 1,
        "maxLength": 100
      },
      "description": "Two to four listing slugs."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "slugs"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

The categories, countries and tags in use in the NutsGrowth directory, each with how many listings it has, so search_tools and find_alternatives can be given values that exist. Open source and self-hostable are filters of their own (open_source, self_hostable), not tags.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

Send a startup or SaaS product to the NutsGrowth review queue, the way the form at /submit does. A person reads every suggestion and writes the listing by hand, so it takes days. If the website is already listed, the answer gives its page and how to claim it; if it is already in the queue, when it arrived. Fill in what you know from the product's own site; leave out what you do not. Ask the person before sending.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The product's name."
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Its website, as a full https:// address."
    },
    "tagline": {
      "description": "One line on what it does.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "overview": {
      "description": "What it does, in a paragraph or two (at most 3000 characters).",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "value_prop": {
      "description": "Why somebody switches to it (at most 400 characters).",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "audience": {
      "description": "Who it is for: up to 8 short labels, each at most 40 characters.",
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "pricing_url": {
      "description": "The page where its prices are published, as a full https:// address.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "tags": {
      "description": "Up to 8 tag slugs from list_filters. Any other is dropped, and the answer names it.",
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "category": {
      "description": "A category slug from list_filters.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "country": {
      "description": "Where the company is based: an ISO code such as \"DE\", or the name.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "replaces": {
      "description": "Products it is a practical substitute for.",
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "open_source": {
      "description": "True if it is open source.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "self_hostable": {
      "description": "True if it can be run on your own servers.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "email": {
      "description": "The person's email, only if they gave it to you for this. NutsGrowth's promise about it, as /submit makes it: \"We email you once, when it is listed — with a link to claim it if it is yours — and only otherwise to ask a follow-up question. Seen only by whoever reviews the queue, never published, and in no export. Leave it blank and the submission is still read.\"",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name",
    "url"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}