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Categories & taxonomy

Categories, use cases, target audiences, pricing types and platforms with live counts and ready-made filter URLs.

GEThttps://www.founder.best/api/v1/categories

One call returns every dimension you can filter products on. Each entry carries an api_url that is already the correct /products query, so an agent can go from “show me marketing tools” to a filtered list in two requests. Cached for ten minutes.

ArrayEntry fieldsSource
categoriesname, slug, description, product_count, url, api_urlCurated category list; counts are live
use_casesname, slug, product_count, api_urlFounder-tagged; only entries with ≥1 live product
audiencesname, slug, product_count, api_urlFounder-tagged; only entries with ≥1 live product
pricing_typesslug, name, description, api_urlFixed: free, freemium, subscription, one_time, paid, open_source
platformsslug, name, api_urlFixed: web, mobile, api, mcp, cli, desktop
bash
curl "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/categories"
200 OK (trimmed)
{
  "api_version": "1",
  "count": 34,
  "categories": [
    { "name": "SaaS", "slug": "saas", "description": "Software as a Service products", "product_count": 111, "url": "https://www.founder.best/categories/saas", "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?category=saas" },
    { "name": "AI & Machine Learning", "slug": "ai-ml", "description": "Artificial intelligence and ML products", "product_count": 45, "url": "https://www.founder.best/categories/ai-ml", "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?category=ai-ml" }
  ],
  "use_cases": [
    { "name": "SEO", "slug": "seo", "product_count": 5, "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?use_case=seo" }
  ],
  "audiences": [
    { "name": "Founders", "slug": "founders", "product_count": 28, "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?audience=founders" }
  ],
  "pricing_types": [
    { "slug": "freemium", "name": "Freemium", "description": "Free to start, with paid plans as you grow.", "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?pricing=freemium" }
  ],
  "platforms": [
    { "slug": "mcp", "name": "MCP", "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?platform=mcp" }
  ]
}

Products that ship their own MCP server or API

platform=mcp and platform=api filter to products whose founders declared an MCP endpoint or API docs. Handy when an agent is asked for tools it can itself integrate with.

PreviousLaunches & trendingNextllms.txt & llms-full.txt

Prefer plain text? Everything here is summarised in /llms.txt.

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