426 indie products shipped by makers

james

@fariraijames

LinkedIn ghostwriting is broken (or insanely expensive). So I built LinkGenie. AI LinkedIn ghostwriter that helped me grow to 25k+ followers and bring in paying users. linkgenie.one

Bree ⚡️

@BreeFlemings

1 billion views...... i keep reading that number and it still doesn't feel real!!! 2022: @jemsocialapp was a beta and a lot of hope. 2023: we launched publicly. 5,000 registered users. no brands yet. 2024: Sway Capital and a group of angels bet $155k on us. 25,000 registered users. still.. maybe just a few brands. 2025: we launched the marketplace intentionally. 120 brands signed up. collaborations started 🚀 2026: acquired @postspaceapp . 1000+ brands signed up. 5000+ campaigns. creators on @jemsocialapp l passed 1 billion views in brand campaigns. 2027: ??? 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 stay tuned.. that timeline looks clean. because it wasn't. it was rebuild after rebuild. the site, the onboarding, the product itself. it was building in public, every single month, networking, being open for feedback, iterating, doubling down, pivoting and so much more. and tbh, this isn't a "look at us" post. it's a thank you. for believing in us. the product. and me. to our creators: you showed up, made the videos, and turned briefs into real results. this billion is yours, and you did it from all 7 continents. to the 1,000+ brands who trusted creators with your story: thank you. special shout out to Triller, Posh, Social Fest, Sesh Collective, Houston Rockets, Kahlab, BONNEE | The Clothing Swap App, EGO Tequila, Mingle And Muse and SO many more who have been rocking with us since the early beginning because they saw the vision..whether they were a VC backed company or a small business. views were never the point. intentional partnerships and results were such as: → one consumer app (stealth) booked 5 creators for $1,200 and got 15,500 downloads and +$3,400 MRR in 30 days → Triller got 10,000+ conversions at a $0.15 CPA → Kahlab 10x'd their website traffic → Social Fest sold OUT of their very first conference in RGV that's what happens when brands work with creators intentionally, not transactionally. the next few years? we're going even crazier. we're building Jem Social into the engine that takes any brand from idea to live creator campaign, anywhere in the world. brands: imagine what a piece of the next billion could do for you. creators: you can join free, from wherever you are. link in the comments. thank you for being part of this. the next billion starts now, more intentionally.

How they grewBuilding in public, networking, feedback, iterating, and doubling down

SHIP OR DIE

@shipordie_

Treasure hit the deck. @vgavrilovikj just received $625 for Klyk. 💰 Total revenue: $4,670 📈 Last 30 days: $1,065 🔁 MRR: $390

tudorbuildsai

@tudorxjh

Hit 11 paying users for BuildNotch. After tomorrow, the price goes up to 3$, then it might go to 4.99$ after the next 50 users. if you want to be productive on your win desktop, have great-looking timers, a place for all your AI apps + usage, projects and many more, get it now for 1.50$👇🏻 buildnotch.app

Pengwu

@afkpengu

Just hit 100 followers 🎉 I’m a penguin with a day job. Just got into big tech. Building gexpense.app after hours. If my apps hit $12k MRR, I quit. Current score: - startups: $0 MRR - salary: still winning - layoffs: on my mind Come checkout my receipt throwing mini game in the boring old footer (because why not 🤷‍♂️). Any other 9–5 builders here? Drop what you’re building and lets connect👇

Javoxir Abdumalikov

@imjavakhir

CalHabit just passed 500 active customers! 🎉 • 533 active customers • 510 new customers • 8 active subscriptions • $19 MRR • $61 revenue over the last 28 days Next goals: 1,000 active customers, $50 MRR & $100 revenue 🚀 Thanks to everyone giving something I built a place in their daily routine 🤍 Try it on iOS 👇 apps.apple.com/us/app/calhabi… #buildinpublic

Niklas Stephenson

@nikstep

Yesterday, we crossed 100 companies live on Phone.inc 🍾. But the more important number is 15%: our conversion rate from Free to Pro without any nudging, growth hacks, or even feature gates- all things we have not had the time to build yet. Most of our paying customers are companies I didn't know before. There is a smell of product-market fit in the bakery, and we are only just building the core features; all the magic is still to come! We are going to take over the world.

DanielK

@danielkbuilds

Day 1 of trying to get bevizio.com to $10k MRR. Yesterday was day 0. I launched on Product Hunt, hit #1, and got 100 paying customers. Oh wait, no. That was a dream. Actually starting today: blogs + SEO. Here's what Bevizio says AI is recommending for CountryTaxCalc (My tax calculator website) so far 👇

How they grewblogs + SEO

Luke Shalom

@shalom_luke

I know exactly what stops founders hitting $30k, $50k and even $100k months from LinkedIn. It's not your content. 👇 It all comes down to getting obsessed with your "metrics". Most expert founders have no idea why one month they have an amazing launch, and the next month they're crashing back down, wondering what the hell happened. Knowing your business metrics is the only way to make your client acquisition predictable. And if you can't get this right, you'll never be able to sustain $20k, $50k or $100k months in your business. Here's what I track: Top of funnel Content: - Which posts get hand-raisers and qualified calls booked - All of it logged in an Excel sheet - The winning formats saved into my Claude AI strategist, so I can replicate them Middle of funnel Outbound: - Messages sent: how I keep my team accountable - Reply rate: tells us if our first-touch message is working or needs switching up - Active conversations: are we actually prospecting, and is our messaging engaging prospects? - Touches per booked meeting: the golden metric I hold my team to. Once you know it, you can work backwards to your targets - Qualified sales calls booked: budget, authority, need and/or timeline confirmed in the DM conversation Bottom of funnel - VSL completion: how long your prospect watched your VSL. It shows the drop-off points, where to improve retention, and whether prospects arrive at the call warmed up - Show rate: how many people actually turn up to your sales calls - Close rate on qualified calls: how many qualified calls it takes you to close a client - Total close rate: include your disqualified calls as well as the qualified ones, and you get the number you actually need to scale (this will humble you if you think you're an A-class closer) - Slipped deals: if 20% of your deals usually drop off, factor that into your close metrics - Cash collected: the cash you actually receive from the deals you close. Not contract value, not MRR - Contract value closed: what clients have agreed to pay under contract When your numbers are dialled in, consistently profitable months become a by-product. Because you can work backwards from your best months. For example: I close 1 in 5 of the calls I take (qualified or not). It takes 35 touches to book a call. So on paper, my team needs 175 touches to sign one $10,000 client, and 1,750 touches for a $100k month. But my show rate is 70%. So a $100k month at $10k a client actually takes 2,520 touches, not 1,750. Your best months come from knowing your numbers. After all, how can you hit a target if you don't know where it is? Want our setter DM tracker to build a predictable pipeline? Send me a DM with "TRACKER".

How they grewLinkedIn content and DM outreach

Guillaume Bardet

@GuillaumeBardet

Best $20 we’ve ever spent. Yesterday, this UGC video hit 60K views in hours and converted 5 paying users. Today, it’s at 117K+ views. Our 90+ creators are already doubling down on the format.

How they grewUGC video format

Branko

@brankopetric00

OpenTweet just crossed $3.8k MRR which is the all time high MRR. 🎉 In the last 30 days I: - Reduced churn by ~8% - Improved SEO and AEO - Fixed bugs I aim to hit $4.5k in October and I will show you what I use to bring more people with SEO and AEO. TrustMRR link is below

How they grewSEO and AEO

peekly

@peekly_app

This app hit $900K MRR in 6 months 😳 The concept is simple, you chat with AI characters.

PromptSmiley 🟡

@Prompt0Guy

I TOLD GPT ASTRA TO FIND A MICRO-SAAS HIDING IN 50,000 ONE-STAR REVIEWS. IT FOUND ONE NOBODY WAS BUILDING. It now does $9K/month. I didn’t upload a spreadsheet or spend days reading reviews. I told Astra to find repeated, expensive problems customers were already describing, but the software companies kept ignoring. It scanned 50,000 one-star reviews across booking and scheduling tools. One complaint kept appearing: “My appointment was cancelled. I had people waiting. But filling the slot still meant calling everyone manually.” The software could manage calendars. It couldn’t recover revenue from a cancelled slot. So I built the smallest possible fix: A cancellation hits the calendar → Astra texts the waitlist → the first person to reply gets the slot → the calendar updates itself. No new booking platform. No CRM. Just a revenue leak getting closed in real time. 153 local businesses pay $59/month. $9,027 MRR. That’s the opportunity most people miss. The best micro-SaaS ideas aren’t hidden in trend reports. Bookmark this post. This week I’m sharing the full one of my workflows for free Follow me so you don’t miss the guide.

How they grewfound via scanned one-star reviews across booking and scheduling tools

Domino

@8omino

I'm Domino, 20, from Egypt 🇪🇬 Solo founder, built YZV Vector - goal + current state → next action Started distribution — $0 MRR Would love to connect with other builders also starting from zero, what are you building?

How they grewstarted distribution

David

@David_cbolt

I launched my startup 7 months ago. I took a bet on myself and have spent way too much time on it. But it's paying off. I'm about to hit $1000 MRR. SEO is bringing in most of my customers. Still a long way to go, but I’m proud of what @ContextBolt is becoming.

How they grewSEO

Igor Araujo

@buildwithigor

5 products, 3 months, $0 MRR so far. InvokePay is live on BetaList. Dev Toolbelt shipped to Chrome Web Store. 14 Apify actors running. Revenue is the hardest piece. Still figuring out distribution. #buildinpublic

How they grewBetaList; Chrome Web Store

Sion

@Sion_Smith

Eight months ago Keito was a side project with zero users. Today: 11,000 users, 29 million hours tracked, £107k ($143k) ARR. £0 on ads. It runs on four agents. Here's what each one does: (bookmark this)

How they grew£0 on ads

marla

@molaerga

Day 91 of 184 - road to $10k MRR - MRR: 0 - Downloads: 2 - got my final commercial API access, now just some admin and testing left, then my SaaS can start - continued updating apps to get viral features for marketing x.com/molaerga/statu…

How they grewviral features for marketing

Oliver Bugar

@OliverBugar

Day 8. of marketing MyChorito: House Chores to 5k MRR 🏗️ Today was a very hard day. Been working on my day job from 7 a.m. till 9 p.m. non-stop.But that will not stop me. Now its midnight and have some things to do: - I am updating my twitter card to make it more attractive to click on it. - Make 3 interactions on Reddit - Start working on widget for my app. - Think about adding a visual representation of the number of chores for each person in household. Remember guys, always be the hardest worker in the room, and the results will come eventually.

How they grewTwitter card changes and Reddit interactions

Sorhan

@sorhanHQ

In the last two months, ELU’s ARR grew 8×, and we’ve signed multiple LOIs, including Google, with over 500+ companies onboarded since July. Seeing that momentum build has been exciting. Now we’re getting ready to show what we’ve built at a16z Speedrun 007 Demo Day on October 6. ELU is building self-healing QA for enterprise software, deployed on-premise. It learns where real users struggle, generates fixes, tests them with synthetic users in a simulated environment, and auto-merges validated fixes into production. The vision is simple: your software should become aware of how its being used and improve itself in real time with no humans in the loop. One week to go til we pitch on stage again! Let me know if you’ll be at Demo Day or want to see ELU in action! 🔗 elu.dev

Audiencon⚡️

@audiencon

A small MRR milestone feels different when you built the product yourself. €172.26 is not life-changing money. But it is proof that someone found Viibeo useful enough to pay for. That matters.

Quentin

@Quentin_Rnv

We are now managing $800K MRR. I joined at $20K less than a year ago. Here is our exact roadmap, step by step: Step 1: Leverage existing authority Before launching TrendTrack, @vincent_alonzi was already a recognized name in the French e-commerce ecosystem. He regularly shared his analyses, insights, and results. When TrendTrack launched, he didn't have to convince strangers: he offered the product to an audience that already trusted him. Result: we reached $200k in MRR organically. Step 2: Build acquisition from the ground up. When I joined, there was no marketing team. I had to build everything simultaneously: identify acquisition channels, structure the department, and track ROI for every action. To stay lean and efficient, I kept tools minimal: a simple piece of paper for daily priorities, an Excel sheet for tracking. I called dozens of users to sharpen our ICP, and personally handled every onboarding call in French, English, and Spanish. Every call delivered two things: clients who felt heard, and market insights no dashboard could ever provide. Step 3: Turn customer satisfaction into organic growth. Our first satisfied clients became our best advocates, without us ever asking. The product delivered clear financial value the only form of marketing that costs nothing and never stops working. Step 4: Play the long game on brand awareness. We spent three months investing heavily in brand recognition with zero immediate ROI, just so the market would know our name. Today, when we reach out to a prospect, trust is already established. It creates a virtuous cycle based on deeper customer insight, continuous product iteration, and frictionless sales. Any further question on this topic ?

How they grewExisting authority, user calls, onboarding calls, and customer advocacy

sui

@birdabo

the site that i vibecoded just reached 500+ users. > officially using dodopayments. > got supabase sponsored. > got vercel sponsored. > restarting $0 MRR BETA SEASON 1 ENDING IN 10 HOURS. everything in the store will forever be gone after. built using @cursor_ai

Richelo Killian

@RicheloKillian

Day 59 of the restart sprint for isitdisposable.com. September ends today, so the month's honest ledger: Shipped: the September data report (edition two, first churn measurements, 1,215 resurrected domains), seven blog pieces including four integration guides, a marketplace deal negotiated and structured on my terms, the platform core extracted so the next four products build on rails, an analytics migration, and the WordPress plugin's requested changes. Firsts: first page one rankings on Google and Bing. First ever ChatGPT referral. First week every input floor went green. Flops: two Hacker News submissions eaten by spam filters before human eyes. An enterprise outreach floor that went to zero once while comfort work volunteered. Revenue: $0 then, $0 now. What changed is everything upstream of revenue: the doors, the data, the rankings, the pipeline, the cohort waiting behind one marketplace approval. October has three weeks of sprint left and three loaded events: the report edition with our first ever domain lifespan data, its Hacker News submission, and Day 90's full accounting. Whatever the last line says, it will be true. That has been the product of this account all along. $0 MRR. 20 days left. One month to land it. #buildinpublic

How they grewGoogle and Bing rankings, ChatGPT referral, Hacker News submissions

Kourosh Ghaffari

@BuildingWaves

I BUILT SOMETHING NEW 🐈‍⬛ 🎉 In the last year, my business @VoicyApp got to: 💵 $11k MRR 💰Over 2000 paying users 📈 25000 monthly clicks from Google The secret? SEO + GEO. The cool part? It's 100% automated. I didn't write a single blog post. ZERO. Instead, I built Romeo. My personal SEO agent. This isn't a new idea, but I hated every single AI SEO tool out there. - They push out slop that nobody reads - They care about clicks, not conversions - You push a blog post out and never look at it again Romeo does things differently. - It writes like you and I write (mostly me 😘) - IT AUDITS YOUR SITE EVERY DAY Instead of writing new AI slop, it checks your existing site. What's ranking? What's dropping? What needs improvement? It then does all of that. Everybody wants to push more content, nobody wants to fix what's broken. Romeo SEO is not a new idea. There are a million competitors. But I know we can do it better than them. Give it a try at romeoseo.com ❤️

How they grewSEO + GEO; no blog posts

GSR

@xgautamsingh

my little habit app habitide just crossed 10,000 installs on android + ios 🥹 still solo. still free. still building nights and weekends around the day job. some days this still doesnt feel real a year ago habitide was just a note in my phone "why do all habit apps feel like homework?" now 2034 people opened it in the last 28 days. 5 of them pay me $10/month to keep it going $10 MRR wont pay rent. but 2034 humans deciding my app is the one they stick with that changes everything you really can build anything you want if you keep showing up Total revenue from this app is around $300