426 indie products shipped by makers

reaget

@reagetacc

DAY 13 BUILDING IN PUBLIC: 6 followers — +1! 🎉 $0 MRR My current workspace: Work laptop. Personal laptop. Monitor. And a tiny pink cup of tea. 😂 Okay, it’s actually a 1L mug. Still working on the project, but these last few improvements are taking forever. #buildinpublic

How they grewbuild in public

Georgios

@georgios_stav

Krasis, first week on the App Store: 12 downloads, 0 trials, 0 purchases. Also found the pricing experiment I built in August was still a draft at launch. Running now. Last day of Shipaton. Small numbers, posted anyway. #Shipaton #BuildInPublic

Joey Walker

@Joey_Walker82

algorithms will randomly decide you do not exist you spend 2 weeks shipping an update, post the demo, and get 12 impressions brutal feeling what I do now when a post completely flops: 1. close Twitter immediately 2. open a group chat with 3 founder friends 3. drop the unedited screen recording of what I built no algorithm, no engagement farming just other builders giving raw feedback last time I did this, someone pointed out my pricing page was broken on Safari fixed it in 5 minutes, got my first sale an hour later the feed is cold talk to real people instead

How they grewTwitter; group chat with founder friends

Abhinav C V

@abhinavcv007

I shipped my app WAY before perfection. It changed so much since I launched it in June August was when I made my first major change in it's design and overall functionality and now we have 8+ paying users and made $150 in sales

Somanshu Singh

@SomanshuSingh

Just listed a side project and within 48hrs got my first sale 🔥

Tharsan

@vtharsandev

I just made my first $ online with my first SaaS 🥹 7 days ago I launched Plume on @ProductHunt. Today: $17 MRR, 3 paying users. Tiny number, but strangers paid for something I built. That feels unreal. Next goal: $100 MRR 🎯 Roast my landing page 👇 (link in reply)

How they grewProduct Hunt launch

Dmitrii Volosatov

@volosatovde

My first online sale was only $59. But it proved something worth much more: A stranger found my product. Understood the value. Entered their card details. And paid for something I built. The first sale won’t change your life financially. It changes what you believe is possible. Then you do it again.

Shakhzod Karimov

@shakhzod1001

Day 66/160 - Missed days: [3] Stage 1: 100 connections✅ & $100 MRR Stage 2: 1k connections✅ & $1k MRR Stage 3: 3,354 -> 10k connections & $10k MRR Did I get better today? - yess: connect ed with 75 people. New project is ready to publish. Needs some updates. Passed 3.2k 🎉🎉.

ImNotAVirus

@ImNotAV1rus

Getting to 1,000 followers suddenly feels possible. Getting one person to pay for my apps still doesn't 😅 My last 3-month challenge ended at $0 MRR New one: 30 days to find my first paying customer and hit 1,000 followers. Maybe 1,200 if the account keeps growing like this 🚀 x.com/ImNotAV1rus/st…

GSR

@xgautamsingh

launched my app few weeks ago $6 revenue 7 active subs $3 MRR $94 away from my first $100 month if I don't hit it, I reset to $0 and start counting again next month will I make it? 👀

Tibo

@tibo_maker

the best decisions I've made for my products came from talking to other founders that's why I built the tmaker Founders Room it's 200+ bootstrapped founders who share what's actually working for them, intro each other to the right people, and tell you when you're about to make a mistake we've already had guest sessions with Marc Lou, Ilias Ism and Rob from SuperX, and each one shared the exact playbooks they used to grow next up is Nevo David from Postiz 👀 he grew it to $220k+ MRR in one of the most crowded spaces out there, and I can't wait to hear how he did it if you're already using one of my products, you get 50% off for 12 months and if you don't find it useful in 7 days, email me and I'll give you a full refund join here 👉 : tmaker.io/founders

pc

@pcshipp

My app makes $15 MRR, but my dream is to afford the $200 Claude Max plan.

Arpit

@Arpitsharma_0

My app makes $15 MRR, but my dream is to afford the $200 Claude Max plan.

Aaron Delasy

@aarondelasy

dats mee!!! I started my own projects 8 years ago, since that time I built: - my own programming language - figma-like form builder - AI agents orchestration platform - desktop app to provide visual feedback for AI agents that was the time I saw @levelsio growing like crazy the biggest regret I have was not following my dreams and instead working for someone else yes I became a higher paid worker, but many indie hackers are now at 10k+ MRR and are set for life

Alex Danilowicz

@alexdanilowicz

today marks the 4th anniversary of our getting into yc - applied with an idea we thought would be "the next whatsapp" - got into w23 with roughly $70 in MRR - our partner said: "this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard" - tanked our demo day - raised only $120k while many batchmates raised $2m+ - took 8 pivots to find pmf - $263 in monthly revenue in our first month with @magicpatterns - took a year+ to reach $10k mrr - hit $1m ARR over the next 7 months (profitable) with two people - raised our series A - got a proper office - hired people - started closing more enterprise deals - worked with ramp, granola, doordash + many more interesting logos - built a ~20 person team across two offices tl;dr: getting accepted into yc changed my life! also made us realize "just don’t die" is more than generic startup wisdom that's passed around because it sounds cool.

Pranjal Soni

@pranjalsoni_

made about $11k in last 4 weeks mrr is down bcs we have paused some ads and launched some more stealth projects overall this month was positive trying to survive

How they grewPaused some ads; launched some more stealth projects

jack friks

@jackfriks

recently my SaaS hit $45k MRR so to celebrate i added a brand new feature... dark mode!!!

peekly

@peekly_app

This app is a TikTok that turns online novels into AI videos It just hit $400K MRR🔥

Taras

@tarasshyn

RedReplier just hit $300 MRR 🎉 While I'm preoccupied with AdaptlyPost's AppSumo release, RedReplier is quietly making an absolute comeback

Usukhbayar Batbayar

@unoryas

Just hit $1 MRR. 🥹 To the very first person who ever paid for Progress Clock: thank you. Seriously. I can’t put into words how much this means to me.

Scott Simson

@imscottsimson

For 7 years I have been building my YouTube agency on a retainer model. $5k-$10k per client...great MRR. We built it to multi-seven figures. ...but I was tired of blowing up channels and not participating in the growth. We switched to a performance based model a few months ago and this happened... Our channels blew up. Of course we take the risk in the beginning, but the back end is so much more lucrative and our clients become partners. We launched this channel on May 13th 2026. It now pays me 8x the amount we used to charge in monthly retainers. If you're truly good at what you do, performance based is the way to go. If you have a successful YouTube channel and you want us to make it more successful for a cut of the growth, hit me up.

SHIP OR DIE

@shipordie_

Treasure hit the deck. @jakebuildthings just received $10.00 for PrivBot. 💰 Total revenue: $4,154 📈 Last 30 days: $541 🔁 MRR: $555

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 113 of the MRR brand: We are back to performance before the adrevival ban finally! Actually better since profit margin is sitting at 25-30%. On a much safer set up as well with personal account. It took a while but we made it. We are going to start testing new angles. If we can crack these new angles the the sky is the limit fr. Next 3 month goals: This month hit 10k day. October hit 20k day. November hit 1M/M run rate(33k A Day) I truly think its possible now that we have an actual safe setup.

Gauthier

@gauthiergirlt

Long time no post; we crossed 25k MRR at hcube.ai after the first month. Thanks to the partnership with Cargo YC S23! It is just our first steps, and things are moving so fast; I was not prepared for this. Let's see if we have what is cost :)

How they grewpartnership with Cargo YC S23

Mehul Fanawala

@MehulFanawala

Hooray! We hit 25! 🥳 Just received another Lifetime Deal for NagMeLater.com. Customer #25 is from India 🇮🇳 25 people have now trusted NagMeLater enough to pay for it. For a product I started building from scratch, that's a pretty special milestone. 25 paying customers. And we're just getting started. 💚🚀

How they grewLifetime Deal

Serg

@karakhanyanS

There is more today, blogr passed $1,000/MRR

Pranav Patel

@ThatsPranav

We just hit $46 MRR ($552 ARR) at Reloop! 🚀 Not a huge number, but it means a lot to us. Building open-source email infrastructure from scratch, and our first dollars are coming in. Next stop: $100 MRR. Let's keep building. ❤️

Quinten Kamphuis

@QuintenKamphuis

My SaaS Reachkit crossed $10k MRR yesterday. Almost 2 years in now. Until 6 months ago it was only referrals. Then I went all in on cold email. That's where the last $100k+ ARR came from. Turns out the thing I sell works on me too.

How they grewreferrals, then cold email

Caleb Panza ☾

@CalebPanza

Earlier this year, we set an aggressive goal for scaling our first product that we just hit. Today @postforme_dev reached $20K MRR 3 MONTHS EARLIER THAN WE PLANNED! My mind is blown and so proud of the work and dedication that we've put into this project. We now set our sights on some major improvements and updates as we hunt down our stretch goal of $30k by EOY. Wow.. I just feel to grateful and blessed. God is good!

Axultan

@axultan

You can ship every day and still get $0 MRR. I’m head of product at Higgsfield. 80 releases since June. The company just crossed a $1B revenue run rate. Those releases wouldn’t have succeeded without distribution. Here’s some help with your next batch of ads and demos: 100% cashback on paid Higgsfield API usage, across every model including Seedance 2.5. Spend $1k on generations. Get $1k back for the next batch. $20M cashback pool. Up to $100K per business. Earn and use your cashback by September 30. Go grow that MRR.

How they grewDistribution; ads and demos

Vu Nguyen

@VuNguyenDev

It's been 15 days since I added subscription to SmoothCapture $111 Revenue $90 MRR 3 churns Pretty good result so far, with this rate I will hit $1k MRR in about 5 months

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 114 of the MRR brand: Finally we hit the 10k day it took way to long to get here. After 3 ad account bans and so many issues but we got here🐣🐣 Next step is 20k days in October lets run this shit. Today i have a coaching call with one strategist, gonna go trough all his briefs. Also working on some sick new angles🥷

How they grewAds; ad accounts were banned three times.

Kainat

@kainat_projmngr

People launch a "SaaS" that's just a Notion template and make $10k in a week. I built actual software with a backend and still can't hit $100 MRR.

Open Book

@carlmonkft

For all new indie app builders: Posting on social media will NOT make you rich. Before I hit $10,000 MRR, I failed my first app and wasted 2 years. I loved meditation so I made Monkeyless a meditation screen time app. I couldn't let it go. For 2 years I posted organically everyday. I did not miss a single day, not ONE. I did: - 30,000,000 views in the span of 2 months after 1 year of little progress -Tortured myself with ridiculous videos like Rawdogging a clock for 8 hours -Embarassed myself in front of the camera since I'm not an extrovert -Tried slideshows, AI content, hired UGC creators, partnerships, every angle possible I still failed. I was sold the idea: "just post everyday, spark the winners and you get success". This is bad advice. Real takeaways after 2 years of failure: 1. Screen time niche is hard, I do not recommend 2. Don't post organically. Only exceptions: -To become familiar with social media in general -To become familiar with your specific niche -To get your first 500-1000 downloads But don't rely on it to make you real money. Use it as an experiment to get data and extrapolate from there. 3. Your #1 goal from launch is to discover whether your app is either a) worth scaling, or b) a flop. 4. Look at DATA. Download-to-paid rate, trial start rate, paywall showrate, optimize onboarding as much as possible especially if you have a hard paywall. 5. Be TRUTHFUL with yourself. If the data says your app sucks, your app sucks. Stop trying to save a sinking ship like I did. You don't need 2 years. You can determine this within 2 weeks. 6. Be careful who you listen to on X. I don't think people on here have bad intentions, but people like to exaggerate results and sell you a dream 7. No co-founders! You already make little money, don't split it even further. Maybe for the future, when you have more capital to scale, but don't do it for your first start-up. Luckily my social net was strong and I had many friends supporting me. Even when I failed, they liked my videos, recorded videos with me, and tried to give me advice even though their advice was bad 😂 Very grateful for them. Don't make the same mistakes I did!

How they grewPosting organically everyday; tried slideshows, AI content, UGC creators, partnerships

Alec Kremins

@aleckrem

August 4th, 2025: I got fired from beehiiv. August 6th, 2025: I found out I was going to be a dad. So I had two options: find another job, or bet on myself at the worst possible time. I bet. I posted about getting fired 20 minutes after it happened. It got 100K views in 24 hours. Nine days later, I launched @rallyupteam with no product, no customers, and no plan besides posting every day about what I was building. Then I spent 6 months building the wrong thing: Software to get employees posting on LinkedIn. Only 2-10% of them ever do. So we flipped it. Start with one exec, and do it for them. That's the company now. We build audiences for founders and execs who have something worth saying and no time to say it. We pull their real context (their talks, their customer calls, their actual opinions), and an expert writer/content engineer writes their post. My own account is the proof: → 23,500 followers, all organic → ~5M impressions in the last 12 months → My investors, my customers, and my first hire all came from posts, not outbound I post about building this in public, what actually works on LinkedIn and X/Twitter, and the parts of founder life nobody screenshots. This is on top of being a new dad and building from Israel. If you're a founder or exec who has over 5M in funding or ARR and you know you should be posting but still aren't, DM me. 🤝 P.S. I'm offline 25 hours every week for Shabbat. If I go quiet until Sunday, that's why.

How they grewPosting every day in public; posted about getting fired and got 100K views in 24 hours

Suman Sharma | Serial Entrepreneur

@whysumancode

Day #15 of building the best AI hairstyle finder on the internet. $0 → $63 MRR. Customer #2 just subscribed to HairOver. Is $63 life-changing? No. But two strangers have now paid for something I built. That means the idea is becoming a business. Next milestone: $100 MRR. Let’s see how long it takes. #BuildInPublic #Startup #IndieHacker

Pixels

@madebypixels3

~$200. Not ARR. Not “pipeline.” Actual money from a tool I shipped 2 days ago. Framecast: framecast.framer.website → get a polished product video. No After Effects. No ugly screen recordings. Four strangers said yes.

Vadim K

@vadimk_77

$100k MRR SaaS. Same business, 7 countries. What the founder actually keeps per year: Cayman: $720k Dubai: $664k Hong Kong: $622k Cyprus: $607k Estonia: $562k US: $479k UK: $346k Dubai vs London: $318k a year. Everyone's hyping Cyprus right now. Read the fine print first. The setup: $1.2M revenue, 60% margin = $720k profit. Founder lives in the same country. All profit paid out as dividends. 2026 rules. US is federal only, state tax comes on top. Cyprus is not 12.5% anymore. 15% corporate tax since Jan 1, 2026. Non-dom = 0% defence tax on dividends, but you still pay a 2.65% health contribution (capped at €4,770/yr). ~15.8% all-in. Still good. Just not what you were sold. Dubai is not 0%. 9% corporate tax above AED 375k since 2023. The free zone 0% only applies to "qualifying income," and SaaS isn't on the list. So most SaaS founders pay 9%. ~7.7% all-in, 0% personal tax. I live here. Still the best number you can actually live with. Cayman is 0%. Also: no Stripe, substance rules, and if you don't live there, your home country taxes it anyway. It's a fund address, not a SaaS HQ. UK: 25% corp tax + dividend tax up to 39.35% (went up again April 2026). ~52% total. Cheapest country to start a company (£100). Most expensive country to succeed in. US LLC for non-residents is not a tax hack. Usually no US federal tax, but your home country taxes the profit. Forget one Form 5472 = $25,000 penalty. The LLC gets you Stripe and a US bank. Not a lower tax bill. Setup cost, roughly: UK: ~$130 Stripe Atlas (Delaware): $500 Hong Kong: ~$500 gov fees + agent Cyprus: $2-4k Dubai free zone w/ visa: $5-6k Cayman: $3-6k Cyprus, HK and UAE free zones also need an audit every year. Budget $2-9k. Where you incorporate matters way less than where YOU live. Company in Cyprus + you in Berlin = German tax. Company in Dubai + you in London = UK tax. Move first. Incorporate second. If you go the Delaware route from abroad, the stack is: EIN Registered agent US address US bank US phone number The phone number is the one everyone forgets until a US client asks for it. I built @BubblyPhone partly for this: US number, $3/mo, works in your browser. Use it for clients and vendors, not bank OTPs. Most banks reject VoIP. Not tax advice. Illustrative numbers, 2026 rules. Get an adviser in both countries before you move anything.

Brandon

@mrbrandowner

One of my greatest achievements this year, next to our brands, is building my own community called MRR Ecom Mastery together with @der_remo It was an idea I had at the beginning of this year: bring MRR brand owners together in one community and give them value they won't find anywhere else. We launched it in May 2026 A community that actually learns from founders who have built, lost and rebuilt in public MRR Mastery has now reached 300 members. A community I built organically, just by posting on Instagram and YouTube I can send a message in a group with 6-8 figure founders who are able to help me and each other out, and give updates on what is currently working in the space This is how you stay on top of how quickly the ecom space is moving We also have higher-up reps in the community from companies such as Slash, Aftersell, Checkout Champ, payment processors and more.. On top of that, we front-run our competition by updating the included masterclass on a bi-weekly basis. Everything on scaling your creative engine and mastering subscriptions for your brand on a deeper level We've helped 42+ founders build their MRR brand from $0, with everyone scaling to 6 figures a month, and even greater results like clients scaling to $2.5M in 90 days The results speak for themselves. An even better feeling is that when people ask about me, they can only vouch for the great stuff and how we helped them scale So much more to come

How they grewPosting on Instagram and YouTube

Shalom

@FlamesInTech

Day 11 of building ShureDesk to $10K MRR. I know distribution is going to be one of my biggest challenges, so I'm not waiting until the product is finished to start working on it. I’ve also built a waitlist page to start getting it in front of potential users. Check comments⬇️

How they grewwaitlist page