Tulimoa is here

There's a hidden mismatch in SaaS right now. On one side, small teams build genuinely useful tools but get drowned in directories that charge premium fees and rank by ad spend. On the other side, companies and teams looking for the right tool for a specific job end up cycling through the same brand-name vendors they already know, because that's all that surfaces in paid placements. The interesting work, the small SaaS that would actually solve a real problem, never gets in front of the people who would buy it.

Tulimoa is built to close that gap. For makers, every submission is reviewed by hand within 24 hours and goes live for free, with permanent placement and ranking that's never for sale. For teams and companies looking for tools, it's a curated layer where every listing has been vetted by a real person, where ranking signals come from how long a tool has kept the Tulimoa badge on its own site and from real community attention, not from who paid the most this quarter. The directory is small on purpose and grows by quality, not by volume.

The next chapter is community and stacks. Users will be able to bundle their actual working setup into a public stack like "the SaaS that powers a one-person agency" or "the tools behind a working marketing pipeline," so companies can borrow proven combinations instead of evaluating tools one by one in isolation. Discovery gets social: people talk about what they actually use, not what they were sold. And further out sits the MCP-Gateway, a single connection URL per user that bundles every linked SaaS into one endpoint AI agents can actually call. That's the part nobody else is building, and it's why the directory shape was chosen from the start.