Products

Search, filter and paginate products, or fetch one product by slug with every public field.

List and search products

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

Returns live products. With search the list is ranked by relevance; otherwise by upvotes (or the sort you choose). All filters combine with AND.

Query parameters

searchstring

Free text up to 120 characters, matched against name, tagline, description and the product’s use cases, audiences and categories. See how results are ranked.

categorystring

Category slug or exact name (ai-ml, saas, developer-tools…).

use_casestring

Use-case slug or name (social-media-management).

audiencestring

Target-audience slug or name (founders, marketers).

pricingcsv

One or more of free, freemium, subscription, one_time, paid, open_source.

platformcsv

One or more of web, mobile, api, mcp, cli, desktop.

founderstring

Founder username.

featuredboolean

true for featured (Launch Pro+) products only.

launched_afterdate

Inclusive, YYYY-MM-DD.

launched_beforedate

Inclusive, YYYY-MM-DD.

sortstringdefault relevance

relevance, upvotes, newest, oldest, rating. Relevance without a search behaves like upvotes.

limitintegerdefault 20

1-100.

pageintegerdefault 1

1-based.

Example

bash

curl "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?search=social+media+content&pricing=free,freemium&limit=10"

Response

query echoes the parsed parameters, pagination tells you where you are, and products is an array of product summaries.

200 OK (trimmed)

{
  "api_version": "1",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-22T12:00:00.000Z",
  "docs": "https://www.founder.best/docs",
  "query": { "search": "social media content", "pricing": ["free", "freemium"], "sort": "relevance", "limit": 10, "page": 1 },
  "pagination": {
    "page": 1, "limit": 10, "total": 23, "has_more": true,
    "next": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?search=social+media+content&pricing=free%2Cfreemium&limit=10&page=2",
    "previous": null
  },
  "count": 10,
  "products": [ { "type": "product", "name": "BidPage", "slug": "bidpage", "…": "…" } ]
}

Filter first, then search.

A category or audience filter plus a short query usually beats a long query on its own. Use /categories once to learn the slugs, then cache them.

Get one product

GEThttps://www.founder.best/api/v1/products/{slug}

Returns the full product detail. Unknown, pending, rejected or not-yet-scheduled slugs return 404 not_found.

bash

curl "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products/acme-analytics"

200 OK

{
  "api_version": "1",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-22T12:00:00.000Z",
  "docs": "https://www.founder.best/docs",
  "product": {
    "type": "product",
    "name": "Acme Analytics",
    "slug": "acme-analytics",
    "tagline": "Product analytics founders can actually read",
    "description": "Weekly plain-English reports for small SaaS teams...",
    "website": "https://acme-analytics.example",
    "url": "https://www.founder.best/products/acme-analytics",
    "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products/acme-analytics",
    "markdown_url": "https://www.founder.best/products/acme-analytics.md",
    "logo_url": "https://cdn.founder.best/product-images/.../logo.png",
    "status": "live",
    "is_featured": false,
    "launch_date": "2026-09-14",
    "pricing": { "type": "freemium", "label": "Freemium", "has_free_tier": true },
    "categories": [
      { "name": "Analytics", "slug": "analytics", "url": "https://www.founder.best/categories/analytics" }
    ],
    "use_cases": ["Analytics & Reporting", "Data Visualization"],
    "target_audiences": ["Founders", "Product Managers"],
    "platforms": ["Web", "API"],
    "metrics": {
      "upvotes": 128,
      "comments": 9,
      "rating_average": 4.8,
      "rating_count": 5,
      "verified_revenue": { "source": "TrustMRR", "label": "$1K–$5K/mo", "mrr_usd": null, "last_30_days_usd": null, "url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/acme", "verified_at": "2026-09-20T02:00:00.000Z" }
    },
    "founder": {
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "username": "janedoe",
      "url": "https://www.founder.best/founders/janedoe",
      "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/founders/janedoe",
      "markdown_url": "https://www.founder.best/founders/janedoe.md"
    },
    "links": { "website": "https://acme-analytics.example", "github": null, "twitter": "https://x.com/acme", "app_store": null, "google_play": null, "api_docs": "https://docs.acme-analytics.example", "mcp_server": null },
    "integrations": { "has_api": true, "has_mcp_server": false, "has_cli": false, "cli_install_command": null, "api_docs_url": "https://docs.acme-analytics.example", "mcp_url": null },
    "alternatives": [{ "name": "Mixpanel", "url": "https://mixpanel.com", "founder_best_url": null }],
    "screenshots": ["https://cdn.founder.best/product-images/.../shot-1.png"],
    "og_image_url": null,
    "ai_profile": {
      "product": "Acme Analytics - Product analytics founders can actually read",
      "description": "Weekly plain-English reports for small SaaS teams...",
      "category": "Analytics",
      "ideal_for": "Founders, Product Managers",
      "key_features": "Analytics & Reporting, Data Visualization",
      "pricing": "Freemium",
      "website": "https://acme-analytics.example",
      "founder": "Jane Doe (@janedoe)",
      "launch_date": "Sep 14, 2026",
      "platforms": "web, api",
      "founder_best_url": "https://www.founder.best/products/acme-analytics"
    },
    "created_at": "2026-09-01T10:12:00.000Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-20T08:41:00.000Z"
  }
}

Tips

Need the whole catalogue? Page through /products?sort=newest&limit=100 or read /llms-full.txt in one request.
updated_at on the detail record changes whenever the founder edits the listing - use it to decide when to refresh a cached copy.
Product pages also expose the same JSON via <link rel=“alternate” type=“application/json”>, so a crawler on the HTML page can find the API record without guessing the URL.