Product Discovery Platforms Favor Paid Placements Over Organic Visibility
Independent software makers face a software discovery landscape saturated with automated spam and pay-to-rank listings, making organic launches difficult without a marketing budget. This is described from the perspective of a directory founder responding to that gap, not a validated demand signal for a specific solution.
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