84 indie products shipped by makers

killed 3 plants in 2024. built an app about it 🌿 Leafnote asks which window, which direction, and adjusts watering reminders to the weather instead of a fixed schedule 2,300 downloads, 41 subscribers at $2.99/mo. not rich, but my monstera is alive

A curated list of open-source starter kits for AI apps, grouped by stack (Next.js, SvelteKit, Rails, SwiftUI) and by use case such as chat, RAG and agents. Each entry notes its license and when it was last updated.

Tailorfit update, day 61: paste a job link → it rewrites your resume bullets to match, without inventing experience you don't have (that was the hard part) - 9,400 resumes tailored - 318 paying users - $1.9k MRR biggest lesson: people pay for "don't make me look fake", not for "AI"

Pingcat just crossed $3k MRR 🐈 14 months ago it was a cron job on my laptop pinging 3 client sites. now: 1,140 monitors, 212 paying accounts, zero employees. what worked: a free plan that's actually useful + SMS alerts on the $9 tier. what didn't: 4 months of "SEO content" that got 11 visitors.

made a tiny daily word game during paternity leave naps each word has to start with the last letter of the previous one, and the chain has to loop back to the start 42k people played yesterday. no ads, no account. I don't know what I'm doing with it and I love it

Hey makers 👋 I'm launching Queuebird today. It's a waitlist page + embed where every signup gets a referral link, and sharing moves them up the line. I used it for my last two launches: 1,800 and 3,400 signups before day one. Free up to 500 signups, $19/mo after that.

A single-binary, self-hosted cron monitor: jobs ping a URL when they finish, and cronpulse alerts you when a ping is late or missing. Ships with SQLite storage and Slack, email and webhook notifiers.

$ cronpulse serve --db ./pulse.db✓ listening on :8420✓ nightly-backup   ping ok   02:00:41✓ invoice-sync     ping ok   02:15:03✕ stale-sessions   late 12m  → slack

Duebird hit $6.8k MRR this morning. it does one thing: sends polite, then less polite, reminders for unpaid invoices so freelancers don't have to. users report getting paid 11 days faster on average. built it because I was owed $4,200 by a client for 3 months.

💸 New subscriber: Pro yearly  +$144💸 New subscriber: Solo monthly  +$12↺ Renewal: Studio monthly  +$29💸 New subscriber: Pro monthly  +$15✕ Churned: Solo monthly  -$12MRR today: $6,812

A small HTTP service that renders any URL to PNG, JPEG or PDF using headless Chromium, with caching, full-page capture and ad/cookie-banner blocking. Deploys as a single Docker container.

$ curl "localhost:3030/shot?url=..&full=1"→ 200 image/png  1.4 MB  812ms$ curl "localhost:3030/shot?url=..&pdf=1"→ 200 application/pdf  220 KB  1.1scache hit rate (24h): 63%

shipped a Figma plugin: select a frame, it flags every text layer that fails WCAG contrast and suggests the nearest passing color from your own palette 11k installs in 3 weeks. free for now, figuring out the paid tier

Streakbar is 1 year old today 🎂 a menu bar app: click a dot, habit done. that's the whole product. $14.99 one-time. 3,870 copies sold. ~$58k lifetime. still no subscription, still no account, still no cloud.

every AI notetaker gives you a 2-page transcript nobody reads Minutely gives you 3 things: decisions, owners, deadlines. that's it. beta: 60 teams, 14 converted to paid ($24/team)

Warmstart numbers, month 5: $2.4k MRR 164 inboxes warming avg inbox placement 71% → 94% after 3 weeks no cold email features on purpose. it's for SaaS founders whose receipts land in spam.

inbox: founder@...  week 1   71% inboxinbox: founder@...  week 2   86% inboxinbox: founder@...  week 3   94% inboxspam complaints: 0  bounces: 0.4%

A local-first markdown notes app for desktop and mobile that stores plain files on disk and syncs through a small self-hosted relay using CRDTs. No account is required for single-device use.

My partner and I kept arguing about money, so I built Jarful: shared envelopes, both phones, no bank linking. Launched 6 weeks ago. 1,100 signups, 88 paying ($4.99/mo). Most feedback is "please add Android" which I'm... working on. Happy to answer anything about building with Expo + Supabase.

Hi PH! I'm Marcus, solo founder of Clipwell. Upload an episode, get 8–12 captioned vertical clips picked for "would someone actually stop scrolling for this". We're at $12k MRR from podcasters who were paying editors $400/episode. Today: 50% off the first month for the PH crowd 🎙️

A font pairing tool that previews heading and body combinations on realistic layouts such as landing pages, blog posts and dashboards, using only freely licensed fonts.

Show HN: Platewise – a meal planner that starts from what you already have You list what's in the fridge (or snap a photo), it plans 5 dinners that use it up before it goes bad, then writes the shopping list for the gaps. Built it with my partner over the summer. ~780 paying users, mostly from a single TikTok.

side project #7: OGsmith point it at any page, it reads the title + favicon + brand color and makes a decent og:image. one meta tag to install. $0 MRR so far lol. but 400 sites use the free tier so I'm keeping it

2 years of Tallyhq, the bookkeeping app I built for freelancers: → $4.6k MRR → 610 customers → 1 part-time support person (my sister) every feature request that starts with "my accountant says" gets built first. that's the whole roadmap strategy.

A one-button browser game where you slingshot a satellite between planets, written in vanilla JavaScript and Canvas. The full game, including audio, fits in 13 KB zipped.

6 months, a cold email sequencing tool, $0 revenue. Posting this so someone else doesn't repeat it. - Built for 5 months before talking to a single user - Entered the most crowded category in SaaS - My "differentiator" was a nicer UI I'm shutting it down next month and open-sourcing the code. AMA.

I had 214 tabs open. so I built TabCap. open an 8th tab → it asks which one to close. that's it. 23k users. somehow the reviews are either 5 stars or "this is evil" 😅

A self-hosted question-answering app over internal documentation, with connectors for Markdown folders, Confluence exports and Google Drive. It runs against local models or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and cites the source page for each answer.

$ askdocs index ./handbook✓ 412 pages · 3,870 chunks · 38s$ askdocs ask "how do I request PTO?"→ Submit in the HR portal 2 weeks ahead.  source: handbook/time-off.md

A command-line tool that takes one SVG and generates every icon size needed for iOS, Android, macOS, PWAs and favicons, along with the matching manifest and asset catalog files.

$ npx iconsmith logo.svg --all✓ ios        18 sizes  AppIcon.appiconset✓ android    6 sizes   mipmap-*✓ macos      10 sizes  AppIcon.icns✓ web        favicon.ico, manifest.jsondone in 1.8s

Hi everyone! SnapLedger is live. Take a photo of a receipt → it pulls merchant, tax and total, matches it to the card transaction, and files it in a monthly report. Built for small agencies. 90 teams onboarded in beta. $8/user/mo.

week 2 of building Sortbox in public it reads new Gmail and sorts into: reply today / reply this week / read later / ignore 47 beta users ~1,900 emails sorted a day 0 revenue (waitlist opens paid plan next week)

Launching Changelane today 🚀 A changelog page + in-app "what's new" widget that shows each user only the updates relevant to the plan and features they use. Beta customers saw 3.2x more clicks on release notes. $15/mo, free for open source.

$ changelane push v2.14.md✓ parsed 3 entries  → "CSV export"   audience: pro  → "Faster search" audience: all✓ published · widget updated in 4s

An MIT-licensed SaaS starter with Next.js, Supabase auth and Postgres, Stripe subscriptions, transactional email and a basic admin panel wired up. It includes a documented checklist for going from clone to deployed.

$ npx degit connorprice/launchpad app$ pnpm setup✓ supabase project linked✓ stripe products created (3)✓ email templates seeded→ pnpm dev  ·  http://localhost:3000

learning Japanese, got bored of textbook decks so Kotoba Cards turns subtitles from shows you're watching into flashcards, with the actual clip as audio 1,400 learners, $3.50/mo, 6% of free users convert building this on the train every morning 🚃

An SEO linter that crawls a site or a build output folder and fails CI on missing titles, duplicate meta descriptions, broken internal links and pages blocked from indexing.

$ seolint ./out --fail-on error✕ /pricing   missing meta description✕ /blog/q3   duplicate <title>✕ /docs/api  3 broken internal links⚠ /careers  noindex set3 errors, 1 warning · exit 1

Built Deepslot because pomodoro apps don't stop Slack from pinging me. Start a session and it sets Slack + Teams to away, pauses notifications, and posts "back at 3:40" to your status. Ends → everything restored. About 600 people use it daily. $5/mo, first 30 days free.

my Shopify app Restockr (back-in-stock emails + SMS) just passed 500 installs $2.2k MRR recovered $310k in sales for merchants last quarter, per their dashboards the app store listing rewrite did more than any feature I shipped this year

📦 Restocked: Linen tote (Sand)  ×40✉ Notified 212 subscribers🛒 Order #4481  +$38.00  via alert🛒 Order #4482  +$76.00  via alert💸 New install: Pro plan  +$19/mo

feedback boards die because users won't make an account to leave feedback Upvoteboard lets them vote with just an email, verified by magic link later $880 MRR, 73 SaaS using it. slow and steady

TodayStack: a to-do app with no app. it's just an iOS widget. tap to check off, long-press to add. max 5 items. tomorrow it's empty again. built in SwiftUI in 6 days. 8k downloads, #14 in Productivity for a day 🙃

My mom sells ceramics on Etsy and spent hours on listings. I built her a tool: upload photos, it writes the title, tags and description in her voice. Her friends wanted it, so I put it online. 230 sellers, 61 paying $9/mo. Biggest surprise: tags matter more than descriptions for search.

First app shipped! SipSync reads HealthKit water logs from your smart bottle or Shortcuts and only nudges you when you're actually behind. Stack: SwiftUI, HealthKit, WidgetKit, no backend. Numbers after 3 weeks: 1,900 downloads, 4.8 stars, $0 because it's free and I have no idea how to charge for this yet. Any feedback on the paywall question welcome.

A free, MIT-licensed set of 1,200 outline icons on a 24px grid, available as SVG, a React package and a Figma library.

An API and WordPress plugin that generates descriptive alt text for images on upload and can backfill an existing media library in bulk.

I have 9 side projects and didn't want to pay for error tracking on any of them. Tinytrace is a 2 KB script + one Postgres table. Groups errors by stack, emails you once per new error, deletes everything after 30 days. Hosted version is free up to 10k events. Code is on GitHub if you'd rather run it.

$ psql -c "select count(*) from errors"  count: 8,214 (last 30 days)✉ new error: TypeError in /checkout  grouped with 37 similar events✓ rows older than 30d purged