Introducing SiteList News
A home for what we learn reviewing software at scale — SaaS worth knowing about, AI changes that matter, and what's new on SiteList itself.
SiteList reviews software the slow way: a full crawl of the product's public surface, thirty-four scored dimensions, evidence attached to every claim. Most of what we learn doing that never fits inside a single review. This section is where the rest goes.
What we'll publish here
SaaS. Patterns we see across hundreds of listings — pricing pages that hide the number, onboarding flows that respect your time, the difference between a changelog and a marketing feed. When a category shifts, we'll write about the shift, not the press release.
AI. Software is sprouting AI labels faster than AI capabilities. We review the products, so we get to see which is which. Expect coverage that asks the unglamorous question: what does the feature actually do when you run it?
Founders. Stories and updates from the people actually building these products — why a feature exists, what a rewrite cost, what shipped in the last release and what it broke. Owners on a paid plan write these themselves and submit them to us. A founder explaining what they built is worth reading; a founder explaining that it's the best tool on the market is not, and that version doesn't run.
SiteList. Scoring changes, new directory features, methodology updates. When we change how a number is computed, you'll read why here first. A review site that adjusts its scores quietly doesn't deserve your trust.
The rules we write by
The same rules as our reviews. Claims are sourced or they're cut. Criticism is specific, comparative, and aimed at the work.
Nothing here is sponsored: no one buys a verdict, a ranking, or a place in the directory. Articles we write get no vendor input and no vendor preview.
Founder pieces are the labelled exception, and the label is the point. Every one carries a byline naming the company that wrote it, an editor reads it before it runs, and its outbound links pass no search-ranking credit — because a plan that quietly sold link placement would make the whole directory worth less. We can decline one, and we do.
If an article discusses a product we list, we link the review and let the evidence speak.
Where to start
The directory is the product: every published review, scored the same way, with the evidence one click away. This page is the notebook that goes with it.
If you're building something and want to write about it, submit your site — a listing comes with a free review, and a paid plan comes with a slot in this section.
New articles land here and in the RSS feed. No newsletter, no pop-up asking for your email — if it's worth reading, it'll be here when you come back.