AI-powered content generation is one of Dirstarter's most valuable features for quickly populating your directory. We've made significant improvements to how AI generation works, making it smarter, faster, and more user-friendly.

This feature was already available in Dirstarter, but we've made significant improvements to how it works.

Key Improvements

• Smarter, more reliable AI: The AI now processes your requests with greater accuracy and provides clearer feedback. If something goes wrong, it recovers more gracefully—automatically retrying when possible and showing better error messages.

• Real-time, relevant suggestions: As you fill out forms, the AI instantly suggests related tags and categories. With debounced suggestions, you get fast, relevant results and a smoother experience, even with large amounts of data.

• Higher quality content: Description generation now matches the quality of main content generation. Results are more consistent, and the AI uses more of your input for context, giving you more relevant and helpful suggestions. Prompt building has also been improved for even better results.

A new feedback widget allows visitors to quickly share their thoughts and suggestions about your directory.

Users can now report issues with listings, request new features, and provide general feedback - all through a simple interface that makes communication effortless.

The widget is automatically displayed when the user has taken a certain amount of time and acted on the directory. This is to prevent the widget from being displayed too often when the user may not have any feedback to giv yete.

The exact thresholds are:

• Minimum time spent on the page: 60 seconds
• Minimum number of page views: 3
• Minimum scroll percentage: 66%
• How often to check the engagement: every 5 seconds

You can configure those thresholds in the configuration of your directory.

We've launched embeddable badges that make it easy to showcase tool's presence on your directory directly on your users' website.

• Theme Options: Choose between light and dark themes to match your site's design
• Size Control: Adjust width and height dimensions to fit perfectly in any layout
• Live Preview: See exactly how your badge will look before embedding it
• One-Click Copy: Instantly copy the embed code to your clipboard

Features

1. 📱 Responsive Design: Badges automatically adapt to different screen sizes
2. ⚡ Lazy Loading: Optimized performance with lazy loading enabled by default
3. 🔍 SEO Friendly: Includes proper alt text and semantic HTML
4. 📊 UTM Tracking: Built-in campaign tracking parameters for analytics

This new feature makes it easier than ever to let visitors know that their tool is featured on your directory, helping to build trust and credibility with your audience.

Dirstarter now offers full control over your viewing experience. While dark mode has been available since launch, you can now manually toggle between light and dark themes whenever you want.

There are now three ways to switch themes:

• Click the theme toggle in the website footer
• Access it through the command menu (Cmd/Ctrl + K)
• Use the keyboard shortcut Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + L

User can now customize their visual experience to match their preference, regardless of system settings.

Search is one of the primary ways to navigate any website, but directory websites are often overlooked. We've introduced a new way to search for tools in your directory and access quick links.

Search

You can now search for tools in your directory using the search bar. You can also use the quick links to access tools directly.

The search bar is hidden by default. Users can show it by clicking the search icon in the header or by pressing Cmd/Crtl + K on your keyboard.

The integrated search functionality employs basic text matching, laying the essential groundwork for Dirstarter users to implement more advanced search mechanisms such as full-text search, fuzzy matching, semantic search, and beyond.

Quick links

Before users begin typing their search query, they are presented with a set of predefined links for quick access to your site's most valuable pages.