Is there a dedicated directory just for vibe-coded apps?

There are a few, and they are all small. vibcod.dev had 12 curated projects at the time of writing, awesome-vibecoded-apps on GitHub lists roughly 50 apps at 34 stars, and builtwithvibecode is hand-curated at a similar scale. The Vibe App Directory at youraiproject.com is the largest general-purpose one. If you list on all of them you have covered the entire vibe-specific surface in about an hour, which is exactly why you should not stop there.

Do directories care that my app was built with AI?

General directories do not care at all. Product Hunt, AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, and SaaSCity judge the product, not the authorship. The vibe-specific directories care in the opposite direction: they want the stack disclosed, because 'built with Claude Code and Supabase in 6 days' is the story their audience shows up for. Disclose it on the vibe directories, skip it on the general ones unless it is genuinely a feature.

Should I disclose that my app is vibe-coded?

On builder-facing surfaces yes, on buyer-facing surfaces no. Indie Hackers, r/vibecoding, Peerlist, and the vibe directories reward the build story and will upvote 'shipped in a weekend with Cursor.' Your actual customers do not care what IDE you used, and leading with it on a pricing page reads as an excuse for rough edges. Same product, two different framings.

What is the single biggest mistake when listing a vibe-coded app?

Shipping the listing before auditing the app. A directory listing is the first time strangers hit your app in volume, and AI-generated backends routinely go live with permissive database policies, exposed API keys in client bundles, and no rate limits. The listing is what turns that from a private bug into a public incident. Run the security checklist in this post before you submit anywhere.

Are vibe coding directories worth it if they only have a few thousand visitors?

For traffic, marginally. For links and credibility, yes. A permanent dofollow listing on a niche directory compounds for years and costs you fifteen minutes. The mistake is treating the niche directories as your launch strategy instead of the free supplement to Product Hunt, Reddit, and the larger general directories that carry actual volume.

Where to List a Vibe-Coded App in 2026 (Every Directory, Honestly Ranked)

The first directory almost every "list your vibe-coded app" roundup recommends is vibecode.net.

Go there right now. It is a GoDaddy parked page with a "this domain is for sale" banner.

That is the state of this niche in mid-2026. The vibe coding movement produced hundreds of thousands of shipped apps, an entire vocabulary, a Collins Dictionary Word of the Year, and an App Store on pace for a million new submissions this year — and the directory layer underneath it is a handful of genuinely good small sites, a pile of AI-written listicles recommending each other's dead links, and one enormous category error that wastes most builders' launch week.

The category error is this: almost every "vibe coding directory" lists the tools, not the apps.

vibecoding.app has 152 listings. They are Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, bolt.new, v0, Replit, Windsurf. Vibeware.io is a comparison table of the same seven products. The awesome-vibe-coding GitHub list is IDEs, agents, and tutorials. If you built a habit tracker with Claude Code and you submit it to those sites, you are submitting a car to a directory of factories. They will not list you, and the ten minutes you spent is the cheap version of the mistake — the expensive version is planning a launch week around directories that were never going to accept you.

So here is the honest map: which directories accept apps built with AI, which accept AI coding tools, how big each one actually is, and what to do once you have exhausted the vibe-specific list in an afternoon — which you will, because it is short.

The Split That Nobody Explains

Sort every site in this space into one of two buckets before you spend a minute on it.

Bucket A — tool directories. They list the things you build with. Cursor, Lovable, bolt.new, Claude Code, Replit Agent. Their audience is people choosing an AI coding tool. Submit here only if you built a developer tool, an agent, an MCP server, or a coding assistant.

Bucket B — app directories. They list the things you build. A weather app, a menu-photo AI, a taxi sim, a coffee shop map. Their audience is builders looking for inspiration and proof that this stuff ships. This is where your vibe-coded product goes.

Bucket A is crowded, well-funded, and has real traffic. Bucket B is tiny, mostly hand-curated by one person, and where nearly all vibe-coded apps actually belong. Most roundups blend the two into one list of twenty "vibe coding directories," which is why builders keep submitting to the wrong half.

Bucket B: Directories That Actually List Vibe-Coded Apps

Ordered by how much I'd prioritise them. Every one verified live in July 2026.

1. Vibe App Directory — youraiproject.com/vibe-apps — Free

The most complete app-side directory in the niche right now, and the only one with enough structure to feel like a real directory rather than a personal collection. Categories cover web apps, mobile, browser extensions, desktop, games, dev tools, and API/backend. Listings carry screenshots, a builder description, the stack and AI tools used, and a vote count — the featured projects range from 11 votes to a little over 3,000, which tells you the top of the leaderboard has genuine reach and the long tail does not.

Submission: Publish through the dashboard. Listings are claimable, so if someone else submitted your app you can take ownership.

What it wants: Live URL, screenshots, description, tech stack, AI tools used. It is explicit about wanting shipped products, not repos and not demos.

Verdict: Start here. It is the one Bucket B directory with enough surface area to send you more than a trickle, and the claimable-listing model means it stays accurate.

2. vibcod.dev — Free

"The library of vibe-coded software — apps, tools and games shipped with an LLM riding shotgun." Human-curated, explicitly not vote-ranked, which is the whole pitch. It runs a vibe-index scoring system, monthly vibe awards, a builder leaderboard, and stack trend tracking.

The honest number: 12 projects in the library at time of writing.

That sounds damning and isn't. Twelve curated slots means your listing is genuinely visible instead of being row 400 of an infinite scroll, and the editorial framing — lessons learned, stack breakdowns, craftsmanship over metrics — is the kind of thing that gets screenshotted into X threads. Small and alive beats large and abandoned.

Submission: "Submit project" form on the site. You can also submit build tips separately, which is a second, easier way onto the site.

Verdict: Submit. Low effort, real curation, and the awards/leaderboard mechanics give you a second and third chance at attention after the initial listing.

3. builtwithvibecode — Free

"An exclusive collection of the most aesthetic, well-crafted vibe code projects found from the internet." Hand-picked daily, filterable by the tool used — v0, Lovable, Claude, Gemini, Base44.

Emphasis on aesthetic. This is the design-forward end of the niche, and the curator is selecting on visual craft. If your app looks like unstyled shadcn defaults, you will not get in. If you spent real time on the interface, this is one of the few places where that is the actual selection criterion.

Submission: "Submit project" button. Curator reviews manually.

Verdict: Worth it if your app is genuinely good-looking. Skip if you shipped functional-but-plain, and come back after a design pass.

4. awesome-vibecoded-apps (GitHub) — Free

A CC0-licensed awesome list, roughly 50 apps, categorised by platform: macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, cross-platform, plus 30+ web apps, 9 games, 2 CLI tools, and 2 browser extensions. 34 stars, 23 commits — small and actively maintained rather than abandoned.

The entries are the ones you have seen quoted everywhere: MenuGen (Karpathy's photograph-a-menu app), The Great Taxi Assignment (first place at the 2025 Vibe Coding Game Jam), MPLS Coffee (every coffee shop in Minnesota, entirely Claude Code).

Submission: Pull request, per CONTRIBUTING.md. Read the format of existing entries and match it exactly — awesome-list maintainers close malformed PRs without comment.

Verdict: Submit. GitHub awesome lists are the most durable listing type in existence: they get scraped, forked, mirrored into other lists, and cited by LLMs. A merged PR here outlives most of the sites on this page.

5. Vibe Coding Showcase — Free

Showcase for apps and sites built with Bolt, Cursor, v0, and the rest of the stack. Straightforward gallery format.

Smaller and thinner than the others and harder to get a read on from outside, but the submission cost is a form fill. Add it to the batch.

Verdict: Low-priority, non-zero. Fifteen minutes for a permanent listing.

6. r/vibecoding and the surrounding subreddits — Free

Not a directory, but it functions as one, and on most weeks it will out-traffic every site above combined. The sub runs recurring showcase threads and community-maintained app indexes, and posts that lead with the build story ("I had zero backend experience, here's the 6-day log") consistently outperform posts that lead with the product.

Read the rules first. Every one of these subs has a self-promo policy and a moderator who enforces it, and a removed post costs you the launch window.

Verdict: Highest real traffic in the entire vibe-specific category. Treat it as a primary channel, not a directory afterthought.

The Bucket B reality check

Directory	Scale	Model	Best for
Vibe App Directory	Largest in niche	Votes + claimable listings	Everyone. Start here.
vibcod.dev	12 projects	Human curation + awards	Well-documented builds
builtwithvibecode	Hand-picked daily	Aesthetic curation	Visually polished apps
awesome-vibecoded-apps	~50 apps, 34 stars	GitHub PR	Durability, LLM citation
Vibe Coding Showcase	Small	Gallery	Batch submission
r/vibecoding	Largest audience	Community threads	Actual traffic
~~vibecode.net~~	Parked domain	For sale	Nothing

Six live surfaces. An afternoon of work, total. That is the whole vibe-specific market, and it is why the second half of this post matters more than the first.

🏙️ Where SaaSCity Fits

Everything above is a card in a grid. You scroll, you forget, the listing sits at row 40 forever.

SaaSCity is a directory shaped like a city. Your app becomes a building on an interactive isometric map — upvotes grow it taller, and the skyline is the ranking. It is a genuinely different discovery surface, and for vibe-coded apps it solves the specific problem this niche has: the vibe directories are too small to send meaningful traffic, and the giant general directories bury a solo-built app under enterprise SaaS with marketing teams.

What you get:

A permanent, indexed product page with a dofollow backlink to your site
Placement on the map, in the AI & Machine Learning, Developer Tools, or Productivity district
Free listing — put our badge on your site, our checker verifies it automatically, and you're live. No gatekeeping, no editorial queue, no "we'll get back to you."
Quick Pass ($9.99) if you'd rather skip the badge and be live within 24 hours

Vibe-coded apps do disproportionately well here, because the thing that hurts them on G2 — being new, solo-built, and category-adjacent — is irrelevant on a map where every building is somebody's side project that shipped.

Submit your app to SaaSCity for free →

Bucket A: Tool Directories (Only If You Built a Tool)

Skip this section entirely if you built an app. Read it if you shipped an MCP server, a coding agent, a CLI, a wrapper, or anything else a builder would install.

vibecoding.app — 152 AI coding tools across 11 categories: IDE agents, prompt-to-app builders, code review assistants, hosting platforms. Sorted by popular/newest/A-Z with verified pricing and head-to-head reviews rather than a leaderboard. The editorial line is worth quoting: "Tools are added when there's enough public signal to write something honest about them, not when a press release shows up." Translation — build an audience first, submit second. Submit at /submit; paid advertising and sponsorships exist separately.

Vibeware.io — Curated table of vibe coding apps with features and pricing tiers. Submission is a Google Form. Low effort, small reach, worth the five minutes.

awesome-vibe-coding (GitHub) — The canonical awesome list for the whole movement: tools, references, tutorials, articles. Heavily forked and mirrored. Submit by PR. Same logic as the apps list — durability is the point.

Awesome Vibe Coding at awesomeclaude.ai — Visual directory of vibe coding tools, Claude-ecosystem-adjacent. Good fit for anything that plugs into Claude Code.

Ecosystem marketplaces — if your tool is a Claude Code plugin, an MCP server, a Cursor extension, or a Zapier integration, the first-party marketplace beats every directory on this page for qualified installs. We cover the MCP side in Best MCP Servers for Claude Code.

The Directories That Actually Carry Volume

Here is the part the vibe-specific roundups leave out. Six niche directories will not launch your product. The general surfaces will, and none of them penalise you for how the code was written.

Product Hunt — Still the single biggest launch day you can have. Vibe-coded apps do fine here; the community has fully absorbed AI-assisted building and no longer treats it as a disclaimer. Schedule for a Tuesday–Thursday 12:01am PT, line up your first ten comments, and have the app actually working when 5,000 people hit it at once.

Peerlist Launchpad — Developer-leaning audience, weekly launch cycle, project cards carry logo and screenshots. Less brutal than Product Hunt, more forgiving of small launches, and the audience overlaps almost perfectly with the vibe coding crowd.

Show HN — Free, brutal, and occasionally enormous. Hacker News will find your unauthenticated API endpoint within four minutes. That is a feature if you audited first (see below) and a catastrophe if you didn't.

Indie Hackers — Narrative wins here, not the product. How you built it, what you charge, what broke. A vibe coding build log is native content on IH in a way it is not anywhere else.

There's An AI For That, Futurepedia, Toolify — Only if your app has a genuine AI-facing feature. "Built with AI" is not an AI feature; "summarises your inbox with an LLM" is. Being built with Cursor does not qualify you, and these directories reject on exactly that distinction.

AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, G2, Capterra — Broad, high-DR, permanent. AlternativeTo in particular converts well because it captures people already searching for a replacement for something.

SaaSCity — see above.

The full 2,400+ site system, sorted by DR and link type, is in The Complete Guide to SaaS Directory Submissions. If budget is the constraint, Free SaaS Directories That Actually Give You Backlinks sorts the free ones by Domain Rating. And if Product Hunt day is your whole plan, Product Hunt Alternatives for SaaS in 2026 is the backup.

Before You Submit Anywhere: The Security Pass

This is the section that matters most and appears in none of the other roundups.

A directory listing is the first time strangers hit your app in volume. AI-generated backends ship with a specific and extremely consistent set of holes, and the listing is what converts them from a private bug into a public incident with your name on it. Every one of these has produced a real, screenshotted, widely-shared disaster in the last eighteen months.

Row-level security. If you have a Supabase, Firebase, or Postgres backend that an agent scaffolded, open the policy list right now. The default in a hurry is a permissive policy that lets any authenticated user read every row. Every user's data, one select, no exploit required.

Keys in the client bundle. Search your built JS for sk-, service_role, and SECRET. Anything shipped to the browser is public, and agents cheerfully move a key from the server to the client to make an error go away.

Unauthenticated endpoints. Every route that writes to the database or calls a paid API needs an auth check. Agents generate the happy path; the auth guard is what gets skipped when you said "just make it work."

Rate limits on anything that costs money. An LLM endpoint with no limit is a stranger's free API key. This has bankrupted side projects within hours of a Show HN post.

CORS. Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on an authenticated API means any website can make requests as your logged-in user.

Storage buckets. Public-read is the default on most quickstarts. Check what is in there before you find out from someone else.

One prompt to your agent — "audit this codebase for exposed secrets, missing auth checks, permissive RLS policies, unrate-limited endpoints, and public storage buckets; list findings by severity" — catches most of it in a single pass. Do it before the listing goes live, not after.

The apps that got torched in 2025 and 2026 were not badly built. They were built fast and launched without this pass.

The Pre-Submission Checklist

Once the security pass is clean:

A live URL that survives being loaded. Not a repo, not a Loom, not a waitlist. Every directory in Bucket B explicitly wants shipped products, and a demo video where a live link should be is the most common rejection reason.
Screenshots that are not the empty state. Populate real data first. An empty dashboard is the single fastest way to lose a curator.
A one-line description that names the problem. "AI-powered productivity platform" is invisible. "Turns a photo of a restaurant menu into pictures of every dish" gets clicked.
The stack, honestly. Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Supabase, Vercel — whatever it actually was. Bucket B directories filter by tool, so this is how people find you.
A build story with a number in it. "6 days, zero backend experience, 400 lines I never read" is the format that travels. Vagueness does not.
A logo at 512×512 or larger. Low-res logos get quietly deprioritised in every grid layout.
Working auth, if you have auth. Curators test signup. A broken magic link is a rejection.

Five Mistakes That Cost Vibe-Coded Launches

1. Submitting an app to a tool directory. Covered at the top, still the most common mistake in this niche. Check which bucket a site is in before you fill in the form.

2. Treating the six vibe directories as a launch plan. They are an afternoon of free supplementary listings. Product Hunt, Peerlist, Reddit, and the general directories are the launch.

3. Leading with "built with AI" to buyers. It is a great hook for Indie Hackers and r/vibecoding. On your pricing page it reads as pre-emptive apology. Same product, two framings — pick per audience.

4. Launching on the prototype. Karpathy's original framing was explicit that vibe coding is for throwaway weekend projects. The last 10% — auth, error states, rate limits, empty states, mobile — is still engineering, and directory traffic is exactly the load that exposes whether you did it.

5. Submitting once and never returning. Refresh listings every six months with new screenshots and current pricing. Directories that sort by "recently updated" hand you a free second launch every time you touch the entry.

Where This Goes Next

Three things are visibly true in mid-2026.

The app-directory layer is underbuilt relative to the app supply. Apple added roughly 560,000 new apps in the first half of this year, on pace to clear a million submissions, and a large share of that surge is AI-assisted. The places to discover those apps number in the single digits. Either the existing ones scale or somebody builds the one that wins — but the imbalance is not stable.

Curation is beating aggregation. vibcod.dev with 12 hand-picked projects gets shared more than sites with 500 auto-scraped rows. As building gets cheaper, the scarce resource stops being the list and becomes the judgment about what's on it.

Mobile is the next wave. Vibe coding started in the browser and has moved onto phones. The directory layer for vibe-coded mobile apps barely exists yet, which is a gap for anyone building and an opportunity for anyone submitting early. If that is you, Best Directories for Mobile Apps and Best Directories for iOS Apps are the current best coverage.

Do This Today

Run the security pass. One agent prompt, ten minutes. Non-negotiable.
Submit to the Vibe App Directory, vibcod.dev, builtwithvibecode, and Vibe Coding Showcase. One afternoon, all free.
Open a PR against awesome-vibecoded-apps. Match the existing entry format exactly.
Submit to SaaSCity — free with the badge, or $9.99 for Quick Pass if you'd rather skip it.
Schedule the real launch: Product Hunt, Peerlist, Show HN, and the two subreddits where your users actually are.
Work the general directory list over the following fortnight.

Building is the easy part now. It has been for a while. Distribution is the whole game, and the builders who win the back half of 2026 are the ones who treat the launch with the same seriousness they used to reserve for the code.

Submit your vibe-coded app to SaaSCity for free →

Or browse what other builders have already shipped in AI & Machine Learning and Developer Tools.

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