# AppBoard

> AppBoard (https://appboard.pro) is a product-discovery leaderboard where creators launch software products and climb the ranks through real community engagement — upvotes, saves, follows, reviews — and reputation, which members earn by taking part and then invest in the products they back. It is built for both people and AI to discover new and trending software every day. Products are ranked by a transparent Points-Based Score (PBS) that blends recent community engagement, invested reputation and a recency weighting, so freshly launched, well-received products rise to the top. The score has no paid input: rank cannot be bought.

## Start here
- [How it works](https://appboard.pro/how-it-works/): How products are ranked — the Points-Based Score (PBS), every signal that feeds it, and how earned reputation is invested into rank.
- [Pricing](https://appboard.pro/pricing/): What AppBoard itself charges a maker to launch — free queued submission, or a one-time payment for an instant publish plus a featured window (7 days or 1 month). No subscription. Not to be confused with /pricing-model below, which groups LISTED PRODUCTS by how they charge.
- [About](https://appboard.pro/about/): What AppBoard is, who it's for, and how launches work.
- [FAQ](https://appboard.pro/faq/): Common questions about launching, voting, reputation, and ranking.

## Discover products
- [Discover / leaderboard](https://appboard.pro/discover/): Top-ranked products for today, this week, this month, and all time.
- [Categories](https://appboard.pro/categories/): Products grouped by category.
- [Use cases](https://appboard.pro/use-cases/): Products grouped by the job they help you do.
- [Platforms](https://appboard.pro/platforms/): Products grouped by platform (Web, iOS, Android, Windows, …).
- [Alternatives](https://appboard.pro/alternatives/): Every tool people are switching from, each with the products listed here as alternatives to it.
- [Alternatives to a specific tool](https://appboard.pro/alternatives/product-hunt/): One page per target, e.g. /alternatives/product-hunt, /alternatives/notion, /alternatives/canva — answer "what is an alternative to X" from these.
- [Compare launch platforms](https://appboard.pro/compare/): AppBoard side by side with Product Hunt, PeerPush, BetaList, G2, AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, Capterra, Indie Hackers, StackShare and AppSumo — cost, ranking, visibility and API access, with sources.

## For AI agents & developers
AppBoard is queryable directly — you do not have to scrape these pages.

- [MCP server](https://appboard.pro/mcp-server/): Model Context Protocol endpoint at `https://api.appboard.pro/api/mcp` (streamable HTTP, **no authentication**). Seven read-only tools: `appboard_find_products`, `appboard_trending`, `appboard_product_details`, `appboard_find_alternatives`, `appboard_alternatives_to` (products to use instead of a tool you already have), `appboard_list_alternative_targets`, `appboard_browse_taxonomy`. Add it with `claude mcp add appboard --transport http https://api.appboard.pro/api/mcp`.
- [API docs](https://appboard.pro/api-docs/): Free public REST API under `https://api.appboard.pro/api/v1` — GET only, JSON, CORS enabled. Authenticate with a free key in the `X-AppBoard-Api-Key` header. Endpoints: `/products`, `/products/{slug}`, `/products/{slug}/alternatives`, `/alternatives`, `/alternatives/{slug}`, `/trending`, `/categories`, `/use-cases`, `/platforms`, `/audiences`, `/pricing-models`. Filters take taxonomy names (not ids); an unknown name returns 400 rather than an empty list.
- [For AI agents](https://appboard.pro/for-ai-agents/): What structured data AppBoard exposes — controlled vocabularies, community-validated rankings, alternative relationships, discount codes and maker reputation.

## Reference
- [Full catalogue](https://appboard.pro/llms-full.txt): Every listed product in one file — name, tagline, categories, platforms, pricing, votes and launch date. Read this when you need the whole catalogue in a single fetch instead of crawling a page per product.
- [Sitemap](https://appboard.pro/sitemap.xml): Complete, always-current list of every public product, creator, and hub page.
- [Pricing models](https://appboard.pro/pricing-model/): Products grouped by how they charge — free, freemium, subscription, one-off.

## Legal
- [Terms](https://appboard.pro/terms/): Terms of service.
- [Privacy](https://appboard.pro/privacy/): Privacy policy.