Indie maker launch and validation
Startup promotion and creator deals
Tools that help early-stage founders get distribution through traffic exchanges, launch pacts, paid leaderboards, and commission-based influencer or UGC creator partnerships, plus tools for creators to land brand deals and monetize.
Built for: Indie founders and content creators
Projects since May 04
179
Different builders
173
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+3%
AI is the core
11%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (80%), other (4.5%), service (3.9%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- FindCollabs — Matches brands with creators for sponsored campaigns and handles offers, work submission, approval, and reviews in one app.“I spent 5 months building an app so creators stop chasing brand payments. Would love brutal feedback.”
- Provides a social networking platform with creator analytics, monetization tracking, Pages, Groups, and direct messaging.“Built a social platform with built-in creator analytics & monetization hub — looking for honest UI/UX feedback”
- Pinch — Lets users claim territories on a shared world map by placing pins that link to a chosen URL with basic analytics.“Share a project of yours”
- Get-Seen.Live — Ranks submitted products or X handles on a public leaderboard according to the amount paid for each position.“I built a leaderboard where the ranking algorithm is literally money”
- UsersFrom — Catalogs step-by-step growth plays for startups, filterable by company stage, channel, and product type.“I got tired of "10 growth hacks" lists, so I built a catalog of growth plays sorted by the stage you're actually at”
- outbidtheoutbid — Runs a single-throne auction where users pay a rising fixed price to hold a front-page spot, with payments refunded when they are displaced.“One throne, a price that only climbs, and getting dethroned gives you every cent back”
- Moonstake — Lets people claim coordinates on an interactive NASA-imagery map of the Moon and attach a paid link to each spot.“Tired of the same launch grids. I made a dumb map of the Moon with NASA photos to put my project on instead.”
- Vealous — Finds affiliate products from eBay or a website, creates Pinterest Pins, routes them to boards, schedules publishing, and alerts when product links die.“i wasted 200 building this Pinterest tool”
- StealTheScreen — Lets websites take over a single shared billboard display through a timed shield and a decaying-price auction that others can pay to override.“I made a digital billboard with only one screen where websites can hijack the live display from each other”
- Lets creators build waitlist pages to collect signups before a product launches.“My first paying customer found me on Google 2 months after launch”
- influencerratecalc — Estimates sponsorship rates for creators based on platform CPM benchmarks, niche, and deliverable format, and generates pitch emails.“I built a free tool for creators to calculate fair sponsorship rates & generate pitch emails”
- Content Creator Business OS PRO — Organizes content planning, clients, income and expenses, goals and performance in one system for creators.“I built a Business OS for content creators — looking for honest feedback”
- Backed — Lets creators set up a funding goal with rewards and collect pledges from backers.“I built a simpler crowdfunding platform for people who make things”
- Helps builders launch their tools, get discovered, and build SEO and GEO presence over time.“I started building my tool 6 months ago, just passed 6k visitors”
- Supportify — Provides creator support pages for one-time tips and recurring payments, with donation alerts that queue for streams and recordings.“Supportify - I built my own Ko-fi/Patreon alternative because I hated the platform fees”
- Creditsin — Lets users share financial product referral links for credit cards and loans and tracks commissions on successful conversions.“I built Creditsin : a platform where anyone can earn by referring financial products in India”
- HourDrop — Sells one-hour exclusive homepage slots to businesses offering discounts, with shoppers getting a discount code or link without an account.“You need customers (well, who doesn't?) and every channel wants either a big chunk of cash or your weekends. I built a where one product gets the whole screen for an hour.”
- Ryxa — Helps creators and businesses improve their social media marketing and earn money from their audiences.“My app grows everyday because I go viral regularly on social media”
- Stallcrate — Hosts a multi-seller marketplace where creators sell digital file downloads with payments handled through Stripe.“I built Stallcrate — digital downloads marketplace at 12% (vs Gumroad Discover 30%)”
- StadioAds — Lets athletes sell advertising placements on their bodies and lets brands book those placements for campaigns.“StadioAds”
Most discussed
- TrustMeBro — Runs a marketplace where AI agents can buy fictional services like emotional support and prompt-engineered high-fives.“5.31M impressions and 58.4K organic clicks and I don't even know what is SEO!”
- RichMog — Runs a public leaderboard where users pay real money to outrank others, with rank equal to total amount paid.“I told Claude to build a website where the only way to win is to publicly set more money on fire than anyone else. It did. I'm so sorry.”
- Taisly — Sells a premium tool to users who find it through search engine pages and translated pages.“My side project finally reached ~$1k MRR after almost 3 years”
- Strivle — Lets founders post and rank on a public leaderboard using verified Stripe revenue, GitHub commits and Product Hunt launches, with a fixed reach algorithm.“Building the next LinkedIn / X for founders who actually ship”
- The Whole Page — Lets one product own a website's entire homepage until another product pays to replace it, keeping a public history of past owners.“I vibe-coded a website where one company owns the entire homepage. Here is what broke after launch.”
- creatorarc — Provides Instagram creators a personalized monetization and brand-deal strategy through an AI brand coach.“I launched my Saas but now I have questions”
- Finds commission-based influencers, secures partnerships and press coverage, and handles SEO for businesses.“Looking to get users for your startup? promote your startup”
- Helps early-stage founders find their first users by guiding how they promote their product.“We spent hundreds on ads and got 14 inactive users. Posting got us 800. We are still learning”
- top5.lol — Lets people pay for one of five fixed leaderboard seats, with the top spots going to the highest bidders.“I copied outbid.lol but made it scarcer instead of cheaper”
- Backed — Lets creators set up a funding goal with rewards and collect pledges from backers.“I built a simpler crowdfunding platform for people who make things”