Show HN: No moat – Software is dead. Nobody told these companies

No Moat is a searchable directory built around the claim that software is not dead: thousands of independent products remain in business, and customers often have good reason to buy rather than rebuild and maintain their own tools. It lists 6,428 products across areas including developer tools, finance, productivity, security, design, and business operations. Individual entries explain what a product does and may show when it launched, recent updates, pricing, audience, and category. Examples range from budgeting and mileage-tracking apps to e-signature services, APIs, delivery software, and circuit-design tools.

The directory’s central argument is practical rather than theoretical: software can be a durable business even without a conventional “moat,” and using an existing product saves the work of creating features, fixing bugs, providing support, and keeping up with changes. Extensive filters let visitors search by customer type, platform, price, integrations, tags, open-source or self-hosting options, business age, and other attributes. It also offers rankings such as most wanted, longest running, and most verified revenue. The listings are overwhelmingly community-submitted; the displayed evidence for verification is limited, with zero products marked as having verified revenue and only a small number showing recent updates or app-store ratings. The directory is therefore both a discovery tool and a catalog making the case for buying software instead of rebuilding it.