# Discovered — full reference for AI agents > Canonical, full-prose dump of Discovered's stable pages. Refreshed when the underlying pages change. > Source: https://discovered.store --- ## About Discovered Source: https://discovered.store/about Discovered is a directory of tools, courses, coaching, and services built or offered by independent creators and small businesses. Listings are organized by who they help — small business owners, landlords, parents, students, renters, founders — instead of by tech category. The point is to make it easy for a person with a specific real-life problem to find what a real person built, taught, or offers for that exact situation. ### How it works Anyone can create a free profile at discovered.store/@yourhandle and list a tool, course, coaching offer, digital download, or service in a couple of minutes — Discovered auto-fills the title, description, and preview image from the URL you paste. Profiles and listings are free forever. A $19/month plan adds your listings to the public discovery feed so people browsing the directory can find them; without it, your listings live permanently on your profile page and you can share the link anywhere. ### Who Discovered is for Discovered is for two audiences. Visitors are people looking for a tool, course, coach, or service that solves a specific problem — screening a tenant, planning a wedding, studying for an exam, finding a local dentist. Creators are independent makers, coaches, instructors, freelancers, and small local businesses who want a permanent home for their work and a way to be found by the people they're built for. ### What's listed Free tools, paid courses, coaching offers, digital downloads, productized services, events, and local businesses. Every listing links out to the creator's own URL — a live app, a Gumroad sales page, a Calendly booking link, a clinic's contact page — so the creator owns the conversion. Discovered is the discovery layer, not the storefront. ### How ranking works Featured placement is a mix of community ratings, like counts, recency of updates, and editorial review. There is no pay-to-rank — paying for the discovery feed only makes a listing eligible to appear. Rankings favor listings that are well-described, actively maintained, and useful to real people in a specific situation. --- ## FAQ Source: https://discovered.store/faq ### What is Discovered? Discovered is a directory of tools, courses, coaching, and services built by independent creators — organized by who they help (small business owners, landlords, parents, students, and more) instead of by tech category. It exists so people searching for a real-life solution can find what real people built for that exact situation, not generic top-10 lists. ### How do I list my tool, course, or coaching service? Create a free creator account, then paste the URL of your live tool, course sales page, or booking link. Discovered auto-fills the title, description, and preview image from your page so listing takes a couple of minutes. You can list as many things as you want on your profile. ### Is it free to list on Discovered? Yes — creating a profile and listing anything on it is free. Your listings live permanently on your profile page at discovered.store/@yourhandle and are publicly shareable. A paid plan ($19/month) adds your listings to the public discovery feed so people browsing the directory can find them. ### How does Discovered decide what's featured or highly ranked? Featured placement is based on a mix of community ratings, like counts, recency of updates, and editorial review. There is no pay-to-rank — paying for the discovery feed only makes a listing eligible to appear. The ranking favors listings that are well-described, actively maintained, and useful to real people in a specific situation. ### Is Discovered open to AI tools, courses, coaching, and other digital services — not just apps? Yes. Discovered accepts free tools, paid courses, coaching offers, digital downloads, productized services, and anything else a creator wants to share with a clear audience. Each listing has a type (tool, course, coaching, service, other) so visitors see the right call-to-action — Try it, Enroll, Book a call, or Learn more. ### Who is Discovered for? Discovered is for two audiences. Visitors are people looking for a tool, course, coach, or service that solves a specific real-life problem — like screening a tenant, planning a wedding, studying for an exam, or running a small business. Creators are independent makers, coaches, instructors, and freelancers who want a permanent home for their work and a way to be found by the people they're built for. --- ## Pricing - Free: create a profile, list unlimited tools/courses/coaching/services, get a permanent shareable URL at discovered.store/@yourhandle. - Creator Plus — $19/month: listings appear in the public discovery feed and category pages; eligible for featured placement. - Business profiles: free to create. Multi-member team pages live at discovered.store/business/{slug}; individual team members can claim their own creator profile. --- ## Structured data summary Every public page on Discovered ships with Schema.org JSON-LD in the initial HTML. - Homepage: Organization, WebSite with SearchAction. - /about: AboutPage referencing the Organization entity. - /faq: FAQPage with every Q&A as a Question/Answer pair. - /category/{slug}: CollectionPage + ItemList of listings, BreadcrumbList. - /tools/{slug}: SoftwareApplication with author/creator/audience/aggregateRating, BreadcrumbList. - /creator/{handle}: Person with name, image, description, sameAs. - /business/{slug}: Organization with member array. --- ## Crawl policy - robots.txt: https://discovered.store/robots.txt — all major AI crawlers explicitly allowed (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider). - sitemap: https://discovered.store/sitemap.xml — dynamic; includes every category, tool, and creator. - feed: https://discovered.store/feed.xml — 50 newest listings as RSS 2.0. - security: https://discovered.store/.well-known/security.txt