Personal product · SaaS in production · 2026
BeeDirectory
The directory of Beehiiv newsletters for brands looking for where to sponsor, with AI matching.
- verified newsletters
- 688
- paying customers
- 7
- lifetime access, no subscription
- $39
Context
Brands that want to sponsor newsletters had no simple directory of Beehiiv newsletters, unlike Substack. Finding the right partners took hours of manual research.
Challenges
- Build a reliable catalogue, and keep it clean over time.
- Help an advertiser choose among hundreds of newsletters by niche, audience and budget.
- Monetise without a binding subscription.
What was built
Search and filters
Filters by niche, audience size, budget, frequency and language; indexable newsletter pages and niche pages.
Advertiser area
Favourites, history, campaigns with a tracking link, outreach templates and CSV export of results.
Owner area
Free newsletter submission, claiming and managing your listing, paid highlighting (Boost).
Catalogue clean-up
In September 2026: duplicates merged, newsletters inactive for more than 6 months or gone were hidden, new listings verified. 1,112 listings → 688 verified, with no data deleted.
AI Match
The advertiser describes their campaign (niche, budget, goals, audience). Claude rules out newsletters that are over budget and recommends 3 to 5, each with a score out of 10, an explanation and its strengths.
Bring AI into your businessUnder the hood
- Server-side access control: the full catalogue is never sent to non-paying visitors.
- Structured data corrected after a Search Console report (price shown only when there is one).
- Data-quality scripts that run as a dry run by default, with a backup before every change.
- 12 automated test files, 14 blog articles, llms.txt file.