Indie maker launch and validation
Indie app testing exchanges
Platforms where indie mobile app developers swap or pay for real-user testing and feedback, often via credits, including meeting Google Play closed-testing requirements, alongside some app marketing and launch tools.
Built for: Indie mobile app developers
Projects since May 04
145
Different builders
142
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-8%
AI is the core
3.4%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (41%), mobile app (30%), developer tool or library (7.6%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/vibecoding, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- Lets users try Android apps in the browser without installing them.“I built a way to let people try Android apps without installing them. What do you think?”
- Dev Test Swap — Coordinates Android closed-testing tester matching and logs tester engagement to help developers meet Google Play's 14-day testing requirement.“Built DevTestSwap to solve 14-day testing dropouts & questionnaire rejections + I'm testing your apps today!”
- AppAcquire — Lists and sells mobile apps through a marketplace where developers can exit their projects.“7 months ago I shared my mobile apps marketplace - today it hit 100 listings!!!”
- Screens app signups with a gatekeeping step before users are admitted.“6 apps built, 0 users. App #7 is a bouncer for signups. Feedback wanted.”
- Offers a paywall and free trial for a mobile app that helps n8n users, and the author is A/B testing its copy.“I changed one sentence on my paywall… and free trial starts dropped. Which version would you choose?”
- Lets users track or manage a personal task through a mobile app, according to the post's description of a consumer B2C app.“I'm going to quit my FT job to grow my mobile app generating $80 a month - pls change my mind”
- Libertyscan — Checks which iPhone and Mac apps in a downloaded Apple data export are unavailable in other countries' App Stores before an Apple Account country change.“Free tool that shows which of your iPhone and Mac apps you'd lose if you move your Apple Account to another country”
- Does not state what the product does; post only reports user signups.“My side project quietly passed 1,000 users and I did not tell a single person in my real life”
- testersseeker — Helps developers find testers for their Google Play Store apps.“I built a web app to make finding Play Store testers much easier”
- beforego.art — Serves a static multilingual marketing website for a studio's seven iPhone apps, with product pages, free tool pages and a blog.“I vibe-coded our studio's first real website: plain HTML and CSS, no framework, 83 pages in 12 languages”
- Hosts a web app built with Lovable at a lovable.app address, with its function unclear from the post alone.“Check out what I just built with Lovable!”
- AppShow — Generates a landing page for a mobile app from its App Store or Google Play listing.“I built AppShow: paste an App Store / Google Play link, get a landing page for your app in seconds”
- Provides a reusable setup of build, signing, licensing, payments, email, and website tooling around a paid Mac app.“Here's everything that goes into a paid Mac app (besides the app itself)”
- GeoRewards: Earn Cash Rewards — Pays users cash rewards for completing surveys and offers on an Android app.“Need some help testing my app! (Happy to help you too!)”
- renameapps — Lets visitors suggest and vote on new names for famous apps shown in a virtual launchpad.“I built a launchpad where you can rename famous apps”
- TestFlightTesters — Connects iOS developers with paid real iPhone and iPad testers who provide structured QA feedback on TestFlight builds.“I built a service that lets iOS developers hire real TestFlight testers”
- ScoutForge — Lets indie app developers test each other's apps in exchange for credits and displays the resulting feedback on app pages.“I built a way for indie devs to get real users testing their app by testing each other's”
- Flo — Provides a productivity app that the author is publishing to the app store.“Publishing our app on the app store for the first time”
- Creator Network — Lets app makers list paid apps for affiliate-style partners who earn a commission on eligible sales.“I built Creator Network for app makers who need more than another launch post”
- thebighead.ca apps — Offers nine small everyday apps for habits, planning, finances, fitness, events and local cleanups, free instead of subscription-based.“I got tired of paying for apps that should be free, so I built 9 of my own”
Most discussed
- Offers a free app with a subscription tier that unlocks extra features beyond the free core.“I added subscriptions to my app. 18 people paid. I think I'm done.”
- Offers onboarding and topic selection for a short in-app session on a website.“I just got my 1st user!!!!!!!!”
- Publishes a utility app and a simple mobile game to the Apple and Google app stores.“Seriously... how are you guys actually making money with vibe coding?”
- gptransport — Provides a transport app for iOS, details not described in the post.“I spent 150+ hours to build a boolshit”
- 1kusers — Lets developers share their apps and trade reviews and testing with other developers, with visibility earned by reviewing others' apps.“Let’s be each other’s First Users”
- Packages an open-source small utility into a bundled desktop app with easy install and auto-updates.“I learned why people pay for open-source products”
- Lets users track or manage a personal task through a mobile app, according to the post's description of a consumer B2C app.“I'm going to quit my FT job to grow my mobile app generating $80 a month - pls change my mind”
- apppa.ge — Creates a single shareable link that redirects visitors to the correct app store page based on their device.“My tiny tool just hit $50 MRR after 2 years 🥹”
- Does not state what the product does; post only reports user signups.“My side project quietly passed 1,000 users and I did not tell a single person in my real life”
- Provides an unspecified software product with paid features to a growing user base.“Passed 3000 users recently and didn't even notice”