SpacerrApps: I Could Not Get Listed, So I Built the List

When SpacerrX was ready I did the thing every launch checklist tells you to do: submit it everywhere. Directories, launch sites, curated lists, "the top fifty places to post your product."

Two weeks later I had eleven confirmation emails, three rejections with no reason, one listing that spelled the name wrong, and a lot of forms that had simply eaten my submission. Several wanted a fee to be "featured." One wanted a backlink first. Most never replied at all.

The problem was not my product

It was that directories are built for the directory. The listing exists to fill a page, the page exists to rank, and the person who actually built the thing is a form field. Nobody writes about your app. They paste your tagline under a screenshot and move on.

I wanted the opposite. A page per app, written from what the builder said about it, with real links that stay up. Free, because the people who need it most are the ones with no budget yet.

So I built the one I wanted

SpacerrApps is that. You submit, you tell us what the app does and why you built it, and you get a page with a proper write-up and two permanent links back to you. No fee, no tiers, no "pay to be seen."

The write-up is the part I care about. A tagline tells a visitor nothing. "I built this because I could not get my own product listed anywhere" tells them everything, and it is the sentence that made me build this in the first place.

What it taught me

The best products I have made came from being the frustrated user. I was not studying the directory market. I was trying to get one listing and failing. If something is hard for you and you can build, the fix is often smaller than the complaint.