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📖 The AI Tool Bible

Roadmap

What we've built, what we're working on, and what we've deferred — with the reasons why. Updated as the site evolves. Currently tracking 919 tools.

● Shipped

  • Directory of 700+ hand-reviewed AI tools
  • 9 canonical categories + rich subcategory / tag / use-case taxonomy
  • Editorial standards: 700+ char descriptions, pros, cons, best_for, not_for, editor_take
  • Category leader pages (/best/[category])
  • Pricing tier landing pages (/best/pricing/[tier])
  • Alternatives pages (/alternatives/[slug])
  • Head-to-head comparisons (/compare/[a-vs-b])
  • Integrations (/integrations/[slug])
  • Platforms (/platforms/[slug])
  • Curated editorial collections (/collections)
  • Full-text search with FTS trigger (/search)
  • What's new & Changelog feeds
  • RSS 2.0 feed (/feed.xml) and per-tool JSON API (/api/tools/[slug])
  • Community submission form (/submit) — HMAC-gated queue
  • IndexNow ping on every deploy
  • Sentry error tracking + Lighthouse CI on PRs
  • Newsletter capture (Resend) with double opt-in
  • LLM models directory (/models)Session 9
  • Trending page (/trending)Session 9
  • Nightly URL health & freshness cron
  • Companies directory (/companies)Session 11
  • AI glossary (/glossary) — 50 termsSession 11
  • Benchmarks (/benchmarks) — SWE-bench, MMLU, GPQA, LMSys, +7Session 11
  • Vendor changelog aggregator (/whats-new-vendor)Session 11
  • Firecrawl enrichment pipeline (raw ingest → verify-on-read promotion)Session 11

● In progress

  • Editorial promotion sweep on session 7-9 additions
    Bumping verification_status='editorial-verified' from ~148 → ~190 so the ribbon reflects reality.
  • Score backfill via Workflow
    565 tools have null score; without it the 'Top rated' sort is inert.
  • /admin/analytics HMAC-gated dashboard
    Catalogue growth over time, distribution charts, freshness bar, broken URLs.

● Next up

  • Tutorials section (/tutorials/[slug])
    MDX 'how to build X with Y' articles — SEO gold, editorial voice, cross-links back to tools.
  • Workflows (/workflows/[slug])
    Numbered sequences that wire tools together (draft in A → grammar in B → publish via C).
  • Hero screenshots via headless chromium
    The self-hosted Firecrawl instance doesn't ship a screenshot engine; a local headless-chrome fallback would fill the last 100%-NULL column.
  • Pricing diff cron activation
    Cron script is shipped (scripts/firecrawl/pricing-diff-cron.mjs) but not yet on the Coolify scheduled tasks. Enable to populate /changelog automatically.
  • E1 promotion pass
    702-tool full-site map crawl is running. Promotion will populate docs_page_count, blog_last_post_at, and discover additional /changelog + /pricing URLs.
  • Weekly newsletter digest via Resend
    10 most recent additions/changes, sent to confirmed subscribers.
  • WCAG 2.1 AA audit + dark mode toggle
    Push Lighthouse a11y from 0.9 warn to 0.95 error; add system-preference dark mode.

● Deferred

  • Semantic search v2 (embeddings)
    Blocked on Ollama install or an embeddings API (OpenAI / Voyage). Current FTS is fine for now.
  • Auth.js + user reviews + bookmarks
    Needs its own sprint. Would turn the directory into a community, at the cost of moderation load.