Changelog

Tool evaluation pages

Listings now support Best for, Pros/Cons, Verdict, pricing summary, and Last verified — so every page has real comparison value, not template fluff.

Alternatives & compare pages

New /alternatives/$slug and /compare/a-vs-b routes for commercial search intent, with honest fallbacks when editorial picks are still thin.

Claim listing + maker analytics

Founders can claim a published listing via HTML meta verification and see views, website clicks, and CTR in Dashboard → Analytics.

Free-plan badge requirement

Free listings require a verified Listed on ToolifyNav badge on your site before review. Badge embed lives on publish — not public item pages. Pro/Sponsor skip the requirement.

User-first homepage & trending board

Hero speaks to people discovering tools first; Popular shows rank-only trending without early-stage absolute view counts.

Directory density & collections

Expanded the curated catalog to 90+ hand-reviewed tools, filled evaluation fields, backfilled cover images, and shipped six JTBD collections including coding, images, meetings, and SEO.

Publish re-sync no longer wipes counters

Owner saves and plan upgrades now patch submission-owned fields only, preserving viewCount, votes, and editorial data.

Weekly digest emails

Subscribers now receive a curated weekly email with the latest AI tools added to the directory.

Notifications center

Dashboard now shows notifications when your tool receives votes, gets approved, or is published.

User profile pages

Every submitter now has a public profile at /u/$username showcasing their published tools.

shadcn/ui migration

Replaced 18 hand-written UI patterns with shadcn/ui primitives.

Newsletter welcome email

Fixed a bug where subscribers received plain-text instead of the branded template.

Design token compliance

Full audit and alignment of all components with the system design token specification.

Biome linter migration

Migrated from ESLint to Biome 2.x for 30x faster linting across 185 files.

Popular leaderboard

New magazine-style leaderboard page ranking tools by real view counts.

TanStack Start migration

Migrated from Astro to TanStack Start with SSR, type-safe routing, and server functions.

Collection ranked lists

Editorial collections now display tools in ranked order with recommendation reasons.

Cloudflare Workers deployment

Production now runs on Cloudflare Workers with D1 auth and KV rate limiting.