426 indie products shipped by makers

mk_builds

@solobuildpro

My first product taught me a painful lesson about building. Beginning of this year, I published my first KDP book: A gratitude journal specifically for overthinkers. I learned KDP from scratch and launched it within a month. Then I made the classic beginner mistake. I thought: “It's published. Now the sales will come.” I even started calculating my potential MRR. 😂 Then… Nothing. No sales from Amazon KDP. I optimized the profile twice. Still nothing. That’s when it clicked: Publishing is not distribution. Building is not demand. I had built something for a specific niche. But I hadn't built an audience or created a reason for people to discover it. The product wasn't the finish line. It was the starting point. That failure still influences how I build today: → Talk to users → Validate the problem → Build → Distribute → Learn → Repeat What’s a product you launched that taught you a lesson the hard way?

How they grewAmazon KDP; optimized the profile twice

Chaminda

@chams_builds

this side project got 195 signups while I ignored it. $33 MRR. no launch push, no marketing. just a chart that kept going up. that's a signal. also a sign of misaligned intentions and a confused audience. so i cut it down to one job: finding posts on X where your product is the answer. relaunching this Tuesday on PeerPush. would you like to support the relaunch? 👋

How they grewno launch push, no marketing

Edem Devlet

@EdemDevletEN

Hi peeps, I'm Edem! I've been living in Berlin for 4 years 🇩🇪, originally from Crimea. I have a 9-5 job, but for the past 2 years, I've been trying to build my own products for most of that time, I built in silence. But last month, I started sharing my projects more actively: money-bee(.)app - a budget tracker for iOS, $18 MRR gptransport(.)app - real-time 🇩🇪 public transport departures iOS app, $8 MRR trustscope(.)app - a website/browser extension that shows how trustworthy a venue's Google Maps rating. It's free Let's connect and grow together!

How they grewsharing projects more actively

Vincent Alonzi

@vincent_alonzi

Road to $1M MRR And the crazy part is, this is only the first step of what’s coming.. We’re going to be able to build, push and do magic with our data Trendtrack is the culmination of all my years building businesses online.. We’ve helped create millionaires and helped others make millions Because that’s exactly what Trendtrack is built for knowing what’s working right now (Ads, email, lp, advertisers..) And now… you can even go back in time and see exactly what was working at any point The features will keep coming We’re just getting started Life is guud

Noorullah Jamakzai

@itzSaasified

linkedify does ~$25k MRR. arnies, the new one, is stuck at ~$1k and has been flat for a while. that's the weird part. i already built something that works. i know how to get customers. but pushing a second saas from zero feels harder than the first time. for months i kept thinking the next feature would move it. linkedin avatars, email warmup, domains, inboxes, sequences. arnies turned into a "GTM superapp" and honestly nobody buys a superapp. they buy one problem getting solved. every feature made it harder to explain. demos got longer, people nodded, then nothing happened. no viral moment, no big launch day, just slow weeks. so right now the only plan is to stay consistent. post every day, reply every day, ship small, talk to users, even when the numbers don't move. and this week i started cutting. i'm asking every paying user one question: if arnies disappeared tomorrow, what would you actually miss? whatever they say stays. everything else goes, even the stuff i spent weeks building and still like. it's hard going backwards at $1k when the other business is at $25k. but a small thing people would miss beats a big thing nobody can explain. will post what survives the cut.

How they grewpost every day, reply every day, ship small, talk to users

Namanyay

@NamanyayG

here's i got 25 yc-backed customers in 4 weeks & how I'll scale to the next 1,000 while scaling my last product to $100k ARR, I built tons of agentic tooling to do marketing and get more sales turns out, it was solving problems faced by a LOT of other startups in just a few weeks, I signed on 25 yc cos and found them 23,000 leads. I'm calling it pumpgtm.com. it's built to be GTM tooling that is completely run by AI, helping agents sell product and scale companies. here's why we're great: - we find and engage with leads everywhere. we're truly multi-channel, you can run sequences across Linkedin, email, and X - we're building your agent's favorite tooling -- set up our MCP inside claude/hermes and let them find sales for you while you sleep github.com/pumpgtm/pumpgt… - Our X integration is better than anything else -- especially useful if you're selling to founders, CEOs, or basically anyone in SF. I'm using PumpGTM to scale PumpGTM (lol), and I've recorded one of my "plays" below. I'm planning to reach 8,000 YC founders in the next few weeks using PumpGTM.com and all of this runs automatically: - Find relevant YC startups (i made the entire list available at pumpgtm.com/yc/founders) - Connect with the founders' LinkedIn, X, and email - Start conversations with them - Every click, message, DM, fully tracked, analyzed, and improved week over week we're growing fast af, we haven't even properly launched and we've already had 60,000 MCP requests in this short time if you want to run the agentic multi-channel GTM system, try us out at pumpgtm.com

How they grewLinkedIn, email, X; MCP inside Claude/Hermes

Roman

@RomanWalcott

Want to meet other Founders/ PM owners. $2k MRR/mo across 8 clients. Automate invoice processing: 5+ min → <30s. Attending NARPM Vegas Oct. Acel Cortex founded by 2 PM owners who spent Fridays billing; built this to reclaim time. No time to edit so I’m just posting!

HOPE | Engineer.

@rlaope

I made a 4-hour fan game for my favorite YouTuber with 500k subscribers. We’ve already been in touch, and they’re scheduled to play it next week. Creating a full 4-hour game meant burning through tens of billions of tokens, but the end result turned out incredible. I used GPT Astra and Opus 5.5 to build an RPG-style game, which required a wide array of fine-tuned rules and systems—ranging from signature camera movements, dialogue, dynamic cutscenes, and effect directions to sprite generation, Visual QA, and gameplay QA. If this post gets a good response and the playthrough goes successfully, I plan to open-source the code for this fan game and bundle all the RPG game-making skills into an "AI RPG Maker" skill set to share with everyone. #deltarune #ai #build

I D R I S

@olanetsoft

Following the Midnight Foundation's recent wind-down of its developer relations team, my time at Midnight has come to an end. I built the developer education and AI developer tools, a dozen-video series explaining how ZKP and network implementation, a certification academy, and an MCP server downloaded 10,000+ times. Some of my favourite moments were the conversations, from fireside chats with builders to the hours spent alongside partner teams shipping on the network. Thank you to the team, the developer community, and every partner I worked with. Before Midnight, I spent over two years at Axelar working hands-on with partner teams building cross-chain applications. I designed their integrations, reviewed their code, and wrote the reference implementation developers used to send messages between blockchains. Before developer relations, I spent over four years as a backend engineer, building systems serving tens of thousands of users, data pipelines, and enterprise software for banks and telecoms. I also founded Web3 Afrika, a community of builders. That engineering background is what I bring to developer relations: I can sit with a team, read their code, and help them ship to production. Now I'm looking for my next role in developer relations, forward-deployed engineering, developer experience, developer support, solutions engineering, or AI engineering. I'm based in UK with a UK Global Talent visa, so no sponsorship is needed in the UK, and I'm open to remote or hybrid. Available now. If your team is hiring, or you know one that is, I'd love to hear from you. An intro or a repost would mean a lot. Portfolio and CV in the reply, kindly help RT

Cryptowaroom

@OLolo13781

Hello everyone, I’ve decided to do things differently. After 12 years in the markets, I’ve decided to finally doxx myself and put my name and reputation behind what I’m building because I’m here for the long term. I started my journey in Forex, moved into equities, and eventually transitioned into crypto. Over the years, I’ve spent thousands of hours trading, studying market cycles, developing strategies, and learning what actually works across different market conditions. Along the way, I built my Instagram to 10,000+ followers, where I share my experience, market analysis, and trading knowledge with a growing community. IG : instagram.com/oualidjaoudati… LinkedIn : ma.linkedin.com/in/oualid-jaou… Today, I’m taking that experience one step further with WARROOM. WARROOM is already being used by 40+ monthly active users, including experienced and professional traders. I don’t want WARROOM to be another token with no purpose behind it. The goal is to build a real product, grow the community, improve the platform, and create something that can actually stand on its own long term. The fee structure is simple: • 50% of fees → Buybacks & Burns • 50% of fees → Funding WARROOM development, growth, and marketing I’m putting my identity behind this because I believe in what I’m building and intend to be here for the long run. This is only the beginning. CA:9zZ1KGa1dSMmw7QQxT4WZKGVMpJHo6Cf9dBvZUNcpump PS: Supply is locked for 1 year.

Jessica J, RDH

@thefithygienist

Little app update 🦷📱 5 paying subscribers + 1 active trial. the crazy part? I haven’t posted or marketed the app lately. I’m still working full-time as a dental hygienist while trying to balance fitness, relationships, a social life… and building an app somewhere in between😂 Progress might be slower than I’d like, but it’s still progress. 6 real people choosing to try something I built is pretty damn cool!!😎 Now it’s time to start marketing again and see where I can take this🚀

How they grewNo recent marketing; plans to start marketing again.

ISH

@ishm6m

i didn't post on x for a month. instead, i tried to see how much i could build in 30 days. in about 2 weeks, portform hit 100 users and 11 paid users. portform is a form backend built for websites and AI agents. you can test forms anonymously in a sandbox, configure everything before signing up, and connect AI agents through MCP. it's freemium, so most users are still on the free plan with 300 submissions. but seeing people actually pay for something i built was a pretty good signal. also grew hoverstate design to 1.5k+ monthly active users in around 2 weeks. hoverstate is a curated gallery of real websites, landing pages, and design sections for inspiration. somewhere in between all that, i had university finals too lol. and because apparently that wasn't enough, i also started working on a real FMCG product. it's a tea brand. currently working on product development, testing, and figuring out the whole thing from scratch. gonna share more about that soon. so yeah, i spent the last month building instead of posting about building. turns out SaaS still works in 2026. now time to shitpost more actively about what i'm building again.

Luis

@lmfresneda

3 weeks building HAGGIN in public 7 signups. 2 Haggins live, one not mine. 0 offers Worked: writing to founders one by one, Reddit threads under 2 hours old. Didn't: 3 posts a day, Product Hunt, a founding discount nobody took x.com/i/article/2104…

How they grewWriting to founders one by one; Reddit threads under 2 hours old.

vikesh dass

@shadygoneinsane

In 2016, I built Keep Me Out, an app that locks you out of your phone. It passed a million downloads. I ran the 2016 code on my Pixel 8 for these. The last one is Mindful Lock today.

BC

@bcchen82

We built the world’s first AI swim coach. 90% pilot retention. LOIs from clubs in China, US and Germany. And we might still quit. Our toughest competitor wasn’t another AI startup. It sold swimming headphones. Here’s what happened. x.com/i/article/2102…

Nihal

@imNihalN

Day 7 → Road to $10K MRR 🚀 Almost finished building a Mac utility made for you. 🖥️ Superpowers, packed into one icon. ⚡️ Planning to release it soon… Stay tuned. 👀 #BuildInPublic #SaaS #MacApp #IndieHacker #MacOS

Souryavardhan singh

@souryaeth

OmegleVC — 2 weeks since launch: 180+ downloads, 1K+ impressions, 2,500+ website visitors & 250+ users. From an idea to real users — and we’re just getting started. ❤️ 👀 Stay tuned — an exciting new feature is coming next! #OmegleVC #BuildInPublic

Usama Kashif

@itsusamak

UPDATE my app CookThis has reached 50+ downloads on PlayStore Wohoooo 🚀 (Alhamdulillah) #BuildInPublic #Cooking #IndieHacker #AI #AppDevelopment

John Opera

@JohnOperace8y

friday numbers, because posting them keeps me honest: 6 boxes running right now. 1 trial in progress. $50 in revenue in the last 30 days. tiny, but every number is real - and every box still deletes itself when it should. #BuildInPublic

Stephen

@steojodev

Friday. Off the 9-5, back onto postverse.io. 🔨 Fortnight in review: free SEO tools live, two more comparison pages, a big refactor, and a couple of embarrassing finds fixed. Still $0 MRR. Have a good weekend. #buildinpublic #saas #founder

Amaan Malik

@amaaan_malik

#day5 of growing my SaaS noori.fun to $1K in 1st month i got my first paying user. what to and where should i market? #buildinpublic #dev #virałpost #fypシ゚viralシ

Naoto — building World Fishing Map

@WorldFishingMap

My last Shipaton article: 101 days to two app stores, in numbers. 873 commits. 790 merged PRs. 109 accounts, 90 of them inactive. Revenue: zero. Plus three claims I got wrong in public, and the feedback that changed the app. medium.com/@WorldFishingM… #BuildInPublic #Shipaton

peekly

@peekly_app

this app hit $200K MRR in 15 weeks 🤯 you look at the camera and it analyzes the wellness indicators on your face

Pierre-Eliott Lallemant

@pierreeliottlal

3,500 customers in 12 months. if you're a founder stuck before $1M ARR, steal this. here's the exact playbook 👇 PHASE 1: THE FIRST $1M ARR 1. stop cold emailing strangers cold lists are dead. we used gojiberry to grow gojiberry, and only contacted people already showing intent: → people engaging with our content → people engaging with our competitors' posts → people engaging with topics our buyers care about → companies that just raised or are hiring then we hit them on every channel: → LinkedIn: connection request + DM → phone: for the hottest leads right person + right moment + right channel. result: 300+ demos in a few month enter your website on gojiberry, it learns your business and does the rest. 2. launch every single day on X and LinkedIn: → 6 days/week: lead magnet posts (free guide, template, playbook) → ask people to comment to get it → 1 day/week: founder story → reply to every single comment every comment = a warm lead you can contact. one post added $5K MRR in under 24 hours. if nobody talks about your product, it's because you don't. 3. use reddit reddit hates marketers. so don't act like one. → warm up your account before posting → post 3x/week: real stories + free playbooks → find threads where people mention your competitors, and leave a genuinely helpful comment → answer niche questions in your space better than anyone → never pitch, never argue with haters result: 14.8M+ views. PHASE 2: SCALE WHAT WORKS 4. influencers most founders pick creators by follower count. wrong. pick them by audience and engagement: if your buyers are sales leaders, find creators sales leaders follow. how to do it: → start with 5-10 small creators in your niche, not 1 big one → give them one clear angle → give each one a free lead magnet to push, so you can track who drives signups → kill the ones that don't convert after 2-3 posts → double down on the winners today, tens of creators talk about gojiberry every month. bonus: their best posts become your best ads. 5. Meta + LinkedIn ads how to do it: → retarget everyone who touched you: site visitors, video viewers, people who engaged with your posts → creatives: your best organic posts, creator videos, testimonials → always be testing, cut what doesn't work fast, scale what does so when your outbound hits their inbox, they already know your name. ads don't create demand. they amplify it. 6. sales leads are like fruit. if nobody picks them fast, they rot. how we run it: → before the call: check their company, team size, and what they sell → during the demo: don't show slides. run the product live on their own business → they see their own leads in real time. that's what closes → goal of the first call: get them started, not sign a huge contract → once they see results, help them upgrade → no-shows get a LinkedIn DM + email the same day marketing fills the pipeline. speed and a live demo close it. 7. focus founders, salespeople, growth teams, agencies… lots of different people use gojiberry. but now, we're building for one core customer: sales teams of 2 to 30 people. why them? they're the ones who get the most value from it. how to find yours: → look at your best customers, not your biggest segment → who gets results fastest? → who pays the most? → who stays the longest? → that's your core customer then point everything at them: posts, ads, emails, features. everyone else still gets value. you're just clear on who you build for first. the truth: none of this is magic. it's doing the simple things every single day: → contact people showing intent → post every day → give real value → follow up fast do that long enough, and it compounds. that's how we got to 3,500 customers in year 1. PS: we made a free 0 → $1M ARR GTM playbook. want it? RT + comment "GTM" 👇

How they grewContent, LinkedIn, phone, Reddit, influencers, Meta and LinkedIn ads

Sofia

@sofiarxin

The new design of my first product upplaunch.com just dropped 😍 I launched 2 days ago, first time completely new and now we hit 44 USERS!! The little app is growing little by day (yay! 🥹) FOR the first 3 paying users, I will pin their logos on my X banner! The roles are simple: - You buy a paid launch (19$/39$) - You choose the duration (weekly/6 weeks) - Your app logo will be pinned on my X banner for that duration Let's see how this will turn out. So excited to see what happens! 🚀

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 115 of the MRR brand: Another peak day hit lets go! The reason for this new scale is a new winning ad + an advertorial i cooked up. I was creating this advertorial because i wanted to try out Taboola but its absolutely crushing rn in Meta. When you look at consumables almost none of the big brands are running advertorials, but i guess it aint dead. Yesterday we sat at a 1.45 front end roas which is absolutely insane and crushing all targets. If we can sit at a 1.1 front end im so happy. But now its time to keep scaling up everyday🫎🫎

How they grewMeta ads; advertorial; Taboola test

Mehdi Ben Haddou

@mehdibhaddou

2 big stuff Today: 1. We hit 5 000€ in MRR 2. We launched a completely useless but super fun way to keep your brain sharp (probably already too late). If you feel like you're losing brain cells thanks to Claude Code

Javier Castro

@Jcastromarchant

Zentrali just crossed $30K in monthly revenue 🎉 A year ago we were a team of 4. Today we're 18, with our models watching 100+ cameras across mine sites in Chile. No VC money. Just paying customers. Next stop: $100K 🇨🇱

MOON JEFF

@moonjeff_

Just hit $13 MRR on Moonlist Server costs are-$35, Vitalik is ignoring my DMs, and we are officially subsidizing the global multi-chain economy out of pocket. If we keep compounding this, I can buy a medium pizza by Q4 2031. To the moon

David

@David_cbolt

A year ago I built my first app. It took 1,723 commits. It was an inventory management app called Stckr. You'd stick a QR code on something you own, scan it, and your phone would pull up the manual, the receipts and when it was next due a service. I worked on it for 81 days. Nearly half the commits were fixes, and I rolled the whole thing back 66 times when something broke. Getting a scanned QR code to open the app on the right item took weeks. Getting Google sign-in to work took 34 commits over two days. Today I could build it in an afternoon. I wouldn't swap those 81 days though. Doing every piece by hand taught me how apps actually fit together. A year later I've launched my first profitable product, and I'm about to hit £1,000 MRR for the first time.

Kerem Gurel

@cankeremgurel

first checkpoint: practicecelpip.ca crossed $1K MRR 59 days after launch - We're at 1136 signups, $1354 revenue, 65 payments, $1,101 inferred MRR. - launched a sibling app for the TEF exam (tefpractice.ca) which had 3 purchases in the first week. x.com/cankeremgurel/…

Rishi Uttam

@RishiUttamHK

@sino_send We just hit $100,000 in sales on AppSumo appsumo.com/products/sinos… Campaign is now over, MRR from here. 🚀 Amazing feedback and thanks to everyone that supported us!

How they grewAppSumo launch

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 117 of the MRR brand: Another peak day hit. It feels like we are really starting to crack our main angle now. Today im gonna discuss with the team how we can scale the main angle further while also unlocking new angles. My idea is to lowkey just run all the top concepts for the new angles as well. Lets get to the 20k day soon🥷

Justin Butlion

@justin_butlion

I was lying in bed last night thinking about my SaaS, @projectecho_io and for the first time I was considering the option of shutting it down. Earlier in the evening I published my weekly post on my Substack, SaaS Decoded, a 4.5k word guide on how to set up product analytics as a SaaS founder. As I was lying in my rock hard Thai bed I couldn't help but think of all the hours I'd spent on Project Echo and what if instead of starting it, I put that effort into my Substack instead. It was a deeply depressing moment. I told myself at the start of the year that SaaS Decoded would be my main focus. When I decided to start Project Echo I went against this decision. Why? I think I believed I could handle another project. I wanted to build a SaaS that can scale and help me move closer to my goal of $20k MRR. I'm now starting to see that this is another trap I walked into. Without having a clear way to drive a significant number of eyeballs onto Project Echo, I was inevitably going to find myself in this position. I knew the marketing would be a challenge but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that 4 months after starting the project I'd be in this position. The last legit signup to the service was on the 20th August, 39 days ago. Since that date there have been over 200 unique visitors to the website. I've posted about it more than a dozen times on social media. I've mentioned the app in multiple substack newsletters to my audience of 700+ email subscribers. I launched a free tool, MRR calculator which I shared on Hacker News and Reddit, as well as on my socials. I've managed to connect with 5 - 10 entrepreneurs over DMs and introduce them to Project Echo. Zero interest. What blows me away is I specifically picked a niche which is mature to help lower my risk. I thought by competing in a space that has at least a few players I would be able to tap into an existing market. I wouldn't have to wonder if there was demand for what I was building. If you're reading this and can relate, let me know your thoughts. I'm at a point where I really don't know what to do. Do I carry on pushing since it's been only 4 months and I don't yet have enough data to make any decision, or do I cut my loses and move on? What would you do? Link to Project Echo 👉 projectecho.io

How they grewSocial posts, Substack newsletters, Hacker News, Reddit, and DMs

Tushar Kapil

@TusharKapil003

My SaaS has crossed $1200 MRR 🚀 Growth has been a bit slow but still we are growing steadily. Launching facebook integration on Reachlee soon ✨ x.com/tusharkapil003…

Dmytro Krasun

@DmytroKrasun

ScreenshotOne is at ~$36K MRR and still growing. I run a developer tool, and despite all the predictions from big accounts and influencers on X, I still see demand. New customers keep subscribing and are happy to pay. What I am testing now: 1. Launched a hosted MCP server that gives AI agents screenshots and clean Markdown of any web page 👉 screenshotone.com/mcp/. The bet is that agents become a new kind of customer. Currently ~10 connections. 2. Started running paid ads. It is early to tell about the results, but it is costly. I like that I can experiment and get feedback fast. And also trying a new format of updates? An unpolished/unscripted video, with pauses and filler words trimmed. In the video, I share more about why I am betting on AI agents:

How they grewPaid ads; hosted MCP server for AI agents

Mike

@MikeDoesTech

Set a new daily record for my SaaS 2k MRR in blocked high risk transactions 😂

Guillaume Bardet

@GuillaumeBardet

We added $30K in MRR by watching who engaged with our competitors on LinkedIn. Every like. Every comment. Those are buying signals hiding in plain sight. If someone in your ICP keeps engaging with a competitor's content, they're: > Researching the problem. > Comparing solutions. > Getting close to a decision. All visible. All actionable. The play: > Build a list of your top 3–5 competitors. Include their founders and sales reps. > Track who's liking & commenting on their posts. > Filter for ICP fit. > Reach out without mentioning the competitor. Don't say: "Hey, I saw you commented on X's post." Say instead: "Saw you're exploring [this space]. We take a different approach. Thought it might be worth a look if you're comparing options." > Keep monitoring. Move the warmest prospects into your pipeline. That's it. Your competitors are already doing the demand gen work. You just need to show up at the right moment. P.S. We built this into Gojiberry, it automatically tracks competitor engagement, identifies ICP-fit prospects, and turns those signals into outreach-ready leads.

How they grewLinkedIn competitor engagement tracking

Caste

@castedev

$291 MRR. $120/mo costs. $171 profit. Day 1 of $291 → $500. Today: - Built a plugin that creates video and auto-publishes to every social. Until now I was relying on SEO only. - Rebuilt note creation. Old flow dumped too many choices on the user. Now it’s step by step. - Fixed a common bug: images generating in the wrong language. Added a language selector. - Cut free image gens from 4 → 3. Want more? Pay. Day 1 not done yet, keep updating and upgrading

How they grewSEO only, then auto-publishes to every social

Svetloslav Novoselski

@sv_novoselski

$10k MRR sounds easy. Then you do the math 😅 $30 a month = 334 customers. To get there in 12 months: 👀 11,667 visitors a month 📝 350 sign-ups a month 💳 35 new customers a month And 14 of them just replace the ones who churn 🩹 So I built a free calculator 🧮 What does your goal take? 👇