Pingsold

Pingsold is a startup directory ranked by real, verified website traffic. Every week there is another "we just hit 10k visitors" post with a cropped screenshot, and there is no way to tell whether the number is true. Pingsold fixes that: a startup's traffic number comes straight from its own analytics, not from a form field.

How it works: list your startup for free, then connect your analytics with read-only access. Pingsold supports Google Analytics 4, Plausible, Fathom, PostHog and DataFast, and setup takes about two minutes. Once a day Pingsold reads aggregate visitors, checks that the traffic is actually on the listed domain, and ranks every startup on a top-traffic board and a fastest-growing board, both overall and per category.

Nobody can type in their own numbers, including the Pingsold team, and paying never changes a rank.

What founders get: a public profile with verified 30-day visitors and a 12-month traffic chart, an embeddable badge that shows your rank or traffic, and a dofollow link back to your site. There is also a Domain Rating board and a free Domain Rating checker for any website.

Privacy comes first. Pingsold only reads totals (visitors, pageviews, hostnames and referrer domains), never anything about individual visitors. Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, and disconnecting deletes them and revokes access.

Pingsold is for indie hackers, SaaS founders and small teams who want credible social proof, and for anyone who wants to see which new products are really growing.

The board is still young, so small but honest numbers rank well today. Listing is free; optional paid plans only speed up review or add a Featured spot, and none of them affect where you rank.