How We Curate Tools

Selection Criteria

A tool must meet all of the following to be listed on YouMightNotNeed:

• Actively maintained. The product must have had a release, update, or public activity within the last 12 months. Abandoned tools are removed.
• Publicly accessible. Anyone must be able to sign up or download the tool without a sales call or an NDA. Enterprise-only products with no self-serve option are excluded.
• Genuinely useful. The tool must solve a real problem for developers, designers, or business teams. We do not list landing pages for products that are not yet shipped.
• Safe and legitimate. We verify that the domain is not flagged as malicious and that the company has a working privacy policy and terms of service.

Review Process

Most tools are submitted by their makers or discovered by the community via the submission form. Every submission is manually reviewed by Quentin Vacher before publishing. The review checks that the tool meets the selection criteria above, that the description is accurate and not misleading, and that the categories assigned reflect what the tool actually does.

We also periodically audit existing listings to remove tools that have shut down, pivoted significantly, or no longer meet our criteria.

How Tools Are Ranked

By default, tools are sorted by relevance to the category or alternative you are browsing. Sponsored tools — those whose makers have purchased a featured listing — appear at the top of listings and are clearly labelled as "Featured". Outside of sponsorship, ranking is not influenced by any commercial relationship.

You can also sort any listing by newest, name A–Z, or name Z–A using the sort controls on each page.

Conflict-of-Interest Policy

YouMightNotNeed earns revenue through sponsored listings and affiliate links. These are always clearly disclosed — sponsored tools carry a "Featured" badge and affiliate links are identified in the footer. Commercial relationships have no influence over editorial decisions such as which tools are approved, how they are described, or which categories they appear in.

If you believe a listing is inaccurate or should be removed, email hello.youmightnotneed@gmail.com.

Update Cadence

New tools are reviewed and published on an ongoing basis, typically within one to two weeks of submission. Category pages and tool descriptions are updated whenever a significant product change is reported. The full catalogue is audited for stale or defunct listings every quarter.