Indie maker launch and validation
Indie project showcase and launch platforms
Platforms where indie makers list, launch, and get feedback on their side projects and products — launch directories, pixel-canvas billboards, feedback-exchange queues, idea boards, and personal project hubs or portfolios.
Built for: Indie hackers and solo founders
Projects since May 04
242
Different builders
228
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-3%
AI is the core
4.1%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (72%), content or community site (15%), other (3.3%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Rank-It — Lets users create, customize, and share tier lists in a web browser.“I built a free, ad-free tier list maker with a lot of customization options. Would love some feedback!”
- Zerkuri — Lets creators list and sell digital design files for laser cutting, CNC, 3D printing and similar making, and lets buyers share finished projects made from them.“I built Zerkuri, a digital-file marketplace with creators at its centre”
- Fivehundrd — Showcases music, indie games, books, creators, podcasts and newsletters in temporary placements capped at 500 per category.“We’re building Fivehundrd: a finite place to discover creative work before the hype”
- AGMAN — Lists products, creators and services in a discovery directory with search, categories and traffic stats.“Built something useful? I want to help more people discover it.”
- DoItLaunch — Lists products on a platform where makers can get discovered by visitors.“490 visitors in the last 30 days coming from Reddit, X, and Google. What should I do to reach 1,000 visitors per month?”
- Free Your Workflow — Catalogs free and open-source alternatives to paid productivity and no-code tools, organized by the paid tool they replace and by profession.“Directory of free/open-source alternatives to Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Slack and more”
- VibeKing — Lists indie projects in a free directory and drafts each listing automatically from the project's own website URL.“I built VibeKing, a free directory to list your side project (paste your url and your listing fills itself in)”
- Muse use cases — Hosts a collection of example use cases for Meta Muse.“Muse use cases”
- ReplaceAI — Searches an index of about 59,000 software tools to find free open-source and self-hostable alternatives to paid proprietary software.“I Vibe coded a fast, 0ms discovery engine to find open-source alternatives to expensive software (59k+ tools indexed)”
- launch-agent — Automates submitting a product's approved copy and assets to many free online software directories through a coding agent driving Chrome.“Open Source Project to turn your AI Agent into a directory submission pro”
- ProjectGen — Generates project ideas from user preferences like time, budget and difficulty, then produces a full exportable build guide.“I built an AI project generator that turns an idea into an actual project plan”
- deepnar-workstation — Presents a personal portfolio as a Linux-style interactive workstation with a file-browser project list, terminal, and project graph.“I turned my portfolio into a Linux-style workstation instead of a normal portfolio — would love brutally honest feedback”
- SmartStack Hub — Lists and compares about 50 software tools with benchmarked pros and cons, plus vendor discount codes, with search and category filters.“I built an automated directory of 50+ benchmarked SaaS & developer tools (SmartStack Hub)”
- LaunchTeaser — Catalogs and lets users browse product launch videos submitted by brands and founders.“Built LaunchTeaser, a free product launch video discovery platform”
- Lists and lets visitors browse over 1,000 projects that people have built with Muse.“I built a place to discover 1,000+ things people are building with Muse”
- RedBid — Lets paying users claim a position on a public category leaderboard for their startup, product, or business.“I just launched RedBid — a live leaderboard where you can pay to claim a higher spot”
- Shipwithmuse — Lists and filters a directory of projects built with Meta's Muse and lets builders submit their own.“Made a website containing 900+ projects built with Muse”
- HackerMRR — Publishes interview-style stories of builders' product journeys, including revenue, user acquisition and lessons learned.“Just wanted to share a new thing I am working on”
- AGMAN — Lets products, professionals, creators and communities create listings and be discovered through a central platform.“I built a discovery network and need SaaS founders to test it with real listings”
- MW Stats — Computes local analytics for MakerWorld creators from data the site already shows the logged-in user, storing history in chrome.storage.“Built a Manifest V3 extension that keeps all analytics local (no server, no tracking) – feedback welcome”
Most discussed
- Viberant — Lets people discover and share vibe-coded projects in one place.“Opinion: Don't stop building useless apps”
- DevStash — Stores and organizes developer snippets, notes and resources in one place.“i just made my first sale 🥳”
- Empirical — Provides a paid online tool whose specific function the post does not describe.“Today my side project hit 500 users.”
- opensourcesoftware.io — Catalogs open source software alternatives to paid apps with screenshots, GitHub stats, license and deployment details, and an AI search chat.“I built a directory of 1,350+ open source alternatives to replace your paid apps, powered by AI search”
- The Zero Dollar Club — Lists public projects from founders who have a live product but no sales yet, and removes them once they make a sale.“Someone joked that 0 founders need an official club so I actually made it lol”
- doitlaunch — Lets founders publish their projects for free to gain users and exposure.“Six days, four sign-ups, still zero launches.”
- tandem — Shows a signup page visitor three other indie tools matching their profile and sends them an intro email about a chosen tool without redirecting them away.“nobody is actually clicking your 'Drop your SaaS' link and we all know it”
- OneDollarStock — Sells lifetime unlimited downloads of creative assets such as images, mockups, presets, LUTs and website templates.“Roast my idea: lifetime unlimited creative assets for designers/founders — useful or bullshit?”
- Provides a directory of SaaS app ideas, each backed by real complaints people have posted on Reddit.“It took 25 days to make my first €16. Here's everything I did.”
- Launch Panda — Provides a curated roadmap of vetted directories for launching indie projects and an auto-launch feature that submits to them.“After 60 days of building, my side project covers a quarter of my monthly income”