FindSoftware

A ratings-free register of software to build websites, web apps and web-based services, in every language: CMSs, frameworks, static site generators, e-commerce, UI and CSS libraries, site search, services, build tools, server software and the packages built on top of them. Published by fortrabbit. Sibling of FindHost. "FindSoftware" is a working title.

A record page names up to four hosts from FindHost, picked by a stable hash, never by quality. When FindHost lists fortrabbit for the software, fortrabbit shows first, labeled "Publisher", on top of the four.

Run locally

pnpm install
pnpm dev                    # localhost:4322 (FindHost keeps 4321)
pnpm build                  # astro build, then the search index
pnpm run check              # types
pnpm run test               # unit tests
pnpm run validate           # guards zod cannot express
pnpm run linkcheck:internal # internal links and the sitemap

Copy .env.example to .env; nothing in it is needed to develop. Astro, static output, no database, deployed to fortrabbit: a push to main deploys.

Where the data lives

research/candidates-<area>.csv	the queue, one row per candidate, with its status and the criterion a rejected one fails
research/facts/<id>.yml	one fact file per researched candidate, every fact with its URL and the date it was read
src/content/software/	records, generated from the fact files — do not edit by hand
src/data/fields.yml	the field dictionary — every field, value and facet
src/content/notes/	one paragraph introducing a facet or one of its values
scripts/import-facts.mjs	turns fact files into records: node scripts/import-facts.mjs <date>
scripts/check-quotes.mjs	re-fetches every quoted source and reports quotes the page no longer holds

Edit a fact file or the import, then re-run the import. A record edited by hand is overwritten on the next import.

AGENTS.md for the full brief: the rules, the inclusion criteria, the prose style. The write-record skill in .claude/skills/ researches one candidate.

Licences

Code MIT, data and prose CC BY 4.0. Credit: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0.

Agents gather the facts and wrote much of the code; the editorial decisions are human. Each record carries an ai value saying how much of its description a machine wrote.