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Week of Oct 5–11, 2026: 182 makers added, 7 revenue updates, 1 exit and 25 profiles upgraded. RSS feed ↗

Week of Oct 5–11, 2026

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  • 182 makers added
  • 7 revenue updates
  • 1 exit
  • 25 profiles upgraded
  • 20 products added
  • 1 profile claimed
  • 17 milestones
  • 1 status change

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    Arvi Teikari

    Finnish solo game developer known as Hempuli, creator of the puzzle game Baba Is You

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    Arvid Kahl

    Sold FeedbackPanda, wrote Zero to Sold, built Podscan in public (acquired 2026)

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    Atta Ur Rehman Shah

    Pakistani solo founder of Fore Studio: Vitals and Flit Mac apps, StartupBase, Depost AI

    $13.3K all-time (Depost AI)
  • Baptiste Arnaud avatar

    Baptiste Arnaud

    Solo founder of Typebot, the open, self-hostable chatbot builder

  • Ben Tossell avatar

    Ben Tossell

    Non-technical builder who sold Makerpad to Zapier and now runs Ben's Bites

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    Benedikt Deicke

    Co-founder and CTO of Userlist; co-host of the Slow & Steady podcast

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    Bhanu Teja P

    Indian solo founder of SiteGPT; sold Notion-blog tool Feather for $250K

  • Billy Basso avatar

    Billy Basso

    Chicago solo developer who spent seven years building the hit Metroidvania Animal Well

  • Brad Traversy avatar

    Brad Traversy

    Web dev educator behind Traversy Media, plus a public lab of indie dev tools

  • Bram Kanstein avatar

    Bram Kanstein

    Dutch no-code maker of Startup Stash who built and sold five curation products

  • Brennan Dunn avatar

    Brennan Dunn

    Founder of RightMessage and Double Your Freelancing, author of This Is Personal

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    Brent Simmons

    Veteran Mac developer who created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit

  • Brett Williams avatar

    Brett Williams

    Solo designer running Designjoy, a $1M+/yr one-person design subscription

    $100K MRR (Designjoy) + $12K MRR (Productize Yourself)
  • Brian Casel avatar

    Brian Casel

    Serial bootstrapper behind Audience Ops, Clarityflow and Builder Methods

  • Caleb Porzio avatar

    Caleb Porzio

    Creator of Livewire, Alpine.js and Flux UI, funded by sponsors and component sales

    $112K/yr from GitHub Sponsors
  • Casey Liss avatar

    Casey Liss

    Indie iOS developer of Callsheet and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast

  • Channing Allen avatar

    Channing Allen

    Co-founder of Indie Hackers, now building the Hatch AI workspace

  • Charlie Chapman avatar

    Charlie Chapman

    Indie iOS dev of Dark Noise and host of the Launched podcast

  • Chris Coyier avatar

    Chris Coyier

    Co-founder of CodePen, ShopTalk Show co-host, ran CSS-Tricks 2007-2022

  • Chris Raroque avatar

    Chris Raroque

    Solo developer of the Ellie daily planner and other productivity apps, YouTuber

  • Christian Selig avatar

    Christian Selig

    iOS indie developer behind Apollo for Reddit, Pixel Pals and Juno

  • Corey Haines avatar

    Corey Haines

    SaaS marketer behind Swipe Files, Conversion Factory and the top AI marketing skills repo

    $1M ARR (Conversion Factory)
  • Cory Zue avatar

    Cory Zue

    Ex-CTO turned solopreneur behind the SaaS Pegasus Django boilerplate

  • Courtland Allen avatar

    Courtland Allen

    Founder of Indie Hackers, the community and podcast that named the movement

  • Csaba Kissi avatar

    Csaba Kissi

    Slovakia-based 'Coding Dinosaur' who has shipped 200+ web projects

  • Dagobert Renouf avatar

    Dagobert Renouf

    The startup meme king: co-founded Logology, runs LaunchDay, wore a 26-sponsor wedding suit

  • Damon Chen avatar

    Damon Chen

    Ex-Cisco engineer who built Testimonial.to and grew acquired PDF.ai into a top AI PDF tool

    $1.3M ARR (Testimonial.to + PDF.ai)
  • Dan Koe avatar

    Dan Koe

    One-person business writer behind The Art of Focus and co-founder of the Eden content app

  • Daniel Jalkut avatar

    Daniel Jalkut

    Former Apple engineer running Red Sweater Software, maker of MarsEdit

  • Daniel Vassallo avatar

    Daniel Vassallo

    Ex-Amazon engineer who popularized the small bets portfolio approach

    $210K profit in 9 months (info products)
  • Danny Postma avatar

    Danny Postma

    Dutch founder of HeadshotPro who sold AI copywriter Headlime for seven figures

  • David Smith avatar

    David Smith

    Independent iOS developer behind Widgetsmith, Pedometer++ and Sleep++

  • Derek Sivers avatar

    Derek Sivers

    Musician who accidentally built CD Baby, sold it for $22M, and writes books on how to live

  • Derek Yu avatar

    Derek Yu

    Indie game designer behind Spelunky, Spelunky 2 and UFO 50, founder of Mossmouth

  • Derrick Reimer avatar

    Derrick Reimer

    Founder of SavvyCal; co-founded Drip, which sold to Leadpages

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    Dickie Bush

    Former BlackRock trader who co-founded Ship 30 for 30 to teach online writing

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    Dong Nguyen

    Vietnamese developer who made Flappy Bird, then pulled it at the height of its fame

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    Dru Riley

    Founder of Trends.vc, the market research newsletter and Trends Pro community

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    Easlo

    Singapore-based Notion template creator behind Second Brain and SyncTasks

    $239K in 2022
  • Eric Barone avatar

    Eric Barone

    Solo developer of Stardew Valley, now making Haunted Chocolatier

  • Erik Kennedy avatar

    Erik Kennedy

    Freelance designer teaching practical UI design through Learn UI Design

  • Fabrizio Rinaldi avatar

    Fabrizio Rinaldi

    Designer and co-founder of Typefully; previously built and sold Mailbrew

    Typefully: ~$2M ARR
  • Filipe Deschamps avatar

    Filipe Deschamps

    Brazilian programming YouTuber, ex-Pagar.me CTO, creator of curso.dev and TabNews

  • Florin Pop avatar

    Florin Pop

    Developer turned indie hacker on a public $1M revenue journey

    $445K lifetime across projects
  • Frey Chu avatar

    Frey Chu

    Directory website builder and SEO teacher behind Ship Your Directory

    $2K+/mo (first directory)
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    Gani Georgiev

    Solo creator of PocketBase, the open source backend in a single file

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    Gergely Orosz

    Ex-Uber engineering manager who writes The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter

  • Giancarlo Buomprisco avatar

    Giancarlo Buomprisco

    Italian developer in Taipei who built Makerkit, the B2B SaaS starter kit

  • Gita A. Ramdhani avatar

    Gita A. Ramdhani

    Indonesian Webflow developer and solo maker of Unsection, a website section design library

    $1.4K MRR
  • Greg Isenberg avatar

    Greg Isenberg

    CEO of Late Checkout, host of The Startup Ideas Podcast, creator of Ideabrowser

  • Guilherme Rambo avatar

    Guilherme Rambo

    Brazilian indie Mac and iOS developer behind AirBuddy and VirtualBuddy

  • Guillaume Moubeche avatar

    Guillaume Moubeche

    Co-founder of lemlist, bootstrapped from $1K to tens of millions in ARR

    ~$40M ARR (lempire)
  • Gus Mueller avatar

    Gus Mueller

    Founder of Flying Meat, two-decade indie Mac maker of Acorn and Retrobatch

  • Harry Dry avatar

    Harry Dry

    Copywriting teacher behind Marketing Examples and its 130K-reader newsletter

  • Hitesh Choudhary avatar

    Hitesh Choudhary

    Jaipur-based coding YouTuber behind Chai aur Code and ChaiCode cohorts; LCO founder

  • Ian Landsman avatar

    Ian Landsman

    Bootstrapper behind HelpSpot since 2005, LaraJobs and the Mostly Technical podcast

  • Ian Nuttall avatar

    Ian Nuttall

    SEO veteran and serial internet entrepreneur shipping AI-coded SEO tools

  • Ilias Ism avatar

    Ilias Ism

    SEO-first serial maker behind GenPPT, LinkDR, AI SEO Tracker and MagicSpace

    $8.1K MRR (GenPPT, verified)
  • Ines Montani avatar

    Ines Montani

    Co-founder and CEO of Explosion, the company behind spaCy and Prodigy

  • Ivan Kutskir avatar

    Ivan Kutskir

    Solo developer of Photopea, the free browser-based Photoshop alternative

    ~$200K/mo
  • Jack Butcher avatar

    Jack Butcher

    Founder of Visualize Value: minimalist visuals, courses on leverage, and digital art

  • Jack Ellis avatar

    Jack Ellis

    Software engineer and sole owner of Fathom, the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative

  • Jack Friks avatar

    Jack Friks

    Self-taught Canadian solo builder of Post Bridge and a string of consumer apps

    $48.9K MRR (Post Bridge, verified)
  • Jakob Greenfeld avatar

    Jakob Greenfeld

    Physicist turned permissionless entrepreneur, co-founder of Sales.co

    $90K/mo (Sales.co)
  • Jane Portman avatar

    Jane Portman

    Co-founder and CEO of Userlist, host of the UI Breakfast podcast

  • Jay Clouse avatar

    Jay Clouse

    Founder of Creator Science, teaching creators to build businesses through experiments

  • Jeff Delaney avatar

    Jeff Delaney

    Creator and voice of Fireship, the fast-paced coding YouTube channel, merged with ui.dev

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    Jeff Johnson

    Indie Safari extension developer behind StopTheMadness at Underpass App Company

  • Jeffrey Way avatar

    Jeffrey Way

    Founder of Laracasts, the bootstrapped video school for Laravel and PHP

  • Jesse Hanley avatar

    Jesse Hanley

    Australian founder of the Bento email platform, building from Fukuoka, Japan

  • Jim Raptis avatar

    Jim Raptis

    Greek design engineer running bootstrapped tools MagicPattern, BrandBird and SuperMotion

    ~$6.5K MRR across three products
  • John O'Nolan avatar

    John O'Nolan

    Founder and CEO of Ghost, the open source, non-profit publishing platform

    Ghost: ~$11.1M ARR
  • Jon Yongfook avatar

    Jon Yongfook

    Solo founder who bootstrapped Bannerbear, an image and video automation API, to $81K MRR

    $81K MRR
  • Jonas Schmedtmann avatar

    Jonas Schmedtmann

    Top-rated Udemy instructor teaching JavaScript, React, Node.js and CSS to 2M+ students

  • Jonas Tyroller avatar

    Jonas Tyroller

    German indie dev and YouTuber behind Islanders, Will You Snail? and Thronefall

  • Jonathan Blow avatar

    Jonathan Blow

    Designer of Braid and The Witness, creator of the Jai language, head of Thekla

  • Jonathan Wilke avatar

    Jonathan Wilke

    German founder of supastarter, the SaaS starter kit for Next.js, Nuxt and TanStack

    $12K/mo
  • Jordan Hughes avatar

    Jordan Hughes

    Australian product designer behind Untitled UI, the best-selling Figma UI kit

  • Jordi Bruin avatar

    Jordi Bruin

    Prolific Dutch indie Apple developer behind MacWhisper, Navi and Posture Pal

  • Josh Pigford avatar

    Josh Pigford

    Serial dabbler who built and sold Baremetrics for $4M, now shipping AI products

  • Josh W. Comeau avatar

    Josh W. Comeau

    Montreal developer-educator behind CSS for JavaScript Developers and The Joy of React

  • Julia Evans avatar

    Julia Evans

    Montreal developer behind Wizard Zines, illustrated guides to computing fundamentals

    $101,558 in 2018 (zine business)
  • Justin Duke avatar

    Justin Duke

    Founder of Buttondown, the bootstrapped newsletter platform he started at Stripe

    ~$15K MRR
  • Justin Jackson avatar

    Justin Jackson

    Co-founder and CEO of Transistor.fm, the bootstrapped 'calm company' for podcast hosting

  • Justin Welsh avatar

    Justin Welsh

    Solopreneur who passed $10M in revenue with a one-person business

    $10M+ total revenue (lifetime)
  • Karl Hughes avatar

    Karl Hughes

    Former CTO who built Draft.dev to $2.5M and now acquires podcast agencies

    $2.5M/yr (Draft.dev, 2022)
  • Kent C. Dodds avatar

    Kent C. Dodds

    JavaScript educator behind Epic React, Epic Web and Testing JavaScript

  • Kevin Powell avatar

    Kevin Powell

    Canadian CSS educator with 1,000+ YouTube videos and The Cascade course platform

  • Kevin Sahin avatar

    Kevin Sahin

    Co-founder of ScrapingBee and author of The Java Web Scraping Handbook

    $5M+ ARR (at exit)
  • Kevon Cheung avatar

    Kevon Cheung

    Hong Kong educator who taught building in public, now building AI learning tools for kids

  • Kitze avatar

    Kitze

    Serial maker of Sizzy, Benji and Tinkerer Club who teaches devs to ship

    $223K in 30 days (verified, Tinkerer Club launch); $400K+ total verified
  • Kyle Gawley avatar

    Kyle Gawley

    Belfast founder of Gravity SaaS boilerplate, Alertly and the Zero To Paid course

  • Laura Roeder avatar

    Laura Roeder

    Founder of Paperbell coaching software; bootstrapped and sold MeetEdgar

  • Lenny Rachitsky avatar

    Lenny Rachitsky

    Former Airbnb product lead behind Lenny's Newsletter and Lenny's Podcast

    $1M+/yr (newsletter and podcast, each over $500K)
  • Louis Pereira avatar

    Louis Pereira

    Goa-based maker of AudioPen, the AI voice-to-text notes app

    $73K in first 2 months
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    Luca Galante

    Italian developer known as poncle, creator of Vampire Survivors

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    Luca Restagno

    Software engineer turned solopreneur behind BlackTwist and Shipped.club

    $2.5K/mo (BlackTwist)
  • Lucas Pope avatar

    Lucas Pope

    Solo designer of Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn

  • Lynne Tye avatar

    Lynne Tye

    Solo founder of Key Values, the job board matching engineers with values-aligned teams

    ~$300K–350K/yr
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    Maddy Thorson

    Canadian game designer behind Celeste and TowerFall, co-founder of Extremely OK Games

  • Marc Köhlbrugge avatar

    Marc Köhlbrugge

    Serial maker behind BetaList, WIP and Startup Jobs, shipping online for 20+ years

  • Marc Lou avatar

    Marc Lou

    French solopreneur from Bali behind TrustMRR, DataFast, ShipFast and 30+ startups

    $98K/mo (July 2026)
  • Marcin Moskała avatar

    Marcin Moskała

    Polish Kotlin educator, founder of Kt. Academy and author of Effective Kotlin

  • Marco Arment avatar

    Marco Arment

    Indie iOS developer of Overcast, previously Instapaper and Tumblr

  • Marie Poulin avatar

    Marie Poulin

    Creator of the Notion Mastery course and co-founder of Oki Doki

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    Mario Guzmán

    Mac developer behind retro Apple Music remotes and PDX Transit

  • Marko Saric avatar

    Marko Saric

    Co-founder of Plausible Analytics, writer on privacy and bootstrapped marketing

    $1M+ ARR
  • Markus Persson avatar

    Markus Persson

    Creator of Minecraft, sold Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5B; now making Levers and Chests

  • Matt Pocock avatar

    Matt Pocock

    TypeScript and AI engineering educator behind Total TypeScript and AI Hero

  • Matt Wolfe avatar

    Matt Wolfe

    AI YouTuber and founder of Future Tools, the AI tool directory and newsletter

  • Max Rozen avatar

    Max Rozen

    Australian engineer in France running OnlineOrNot, a self-funded uptime monitoring SaaS

  • Maximilian Schwarzmüller avatar

    Maximilian Schwarzmüller

    Co-founder of Academind, bestselling coding instructor with 3.5M+ students

  • Mckay Wrigley avatar

    Mckay Wrigley

    Builds and teaches AI coding; creator of Chatbot UI and founder of Takeoff

  • Meng To avatar

    Meng To

    Designer behind Design+Code, teaching designers to code, now building the AI builder Aura

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    Michael Lynch

    Bootstrapper who built and sold TinyPilot, now writing Refactoring English

  • Michele Hansen avatar

    Michele Hansen

    Co-founder and CEO of Geocodio and author of Deploy Empathy

  • Miguel Ángel Durán avatar

    Miguel Ángel Durán

    Barcelona developer-streamer teaching programming and AI in Spanish via midu.dev academy

  • Mike Cao avatar

    Mike Cao

    Creator of Umami, the open-source, privacy-focused Google Analytics alternative

  • Mike Taber avatar

    Mike Taber

    MicroConf co-founder, Bluetick founder and author of The Single Founder Handbook

  • Monica Lent avatar

    Monica Lent

    Technical co-founder of Affilimate and creator of Blogging for Devs

  • Nathan Barry avatar

    Nathan Barry

    Founder of Kit (ConvertKit), bootstrapped from a failing side project to $1M+ MRR

    $1.19M MRR (ConvertKit)
  • Nevo David avatar

    Nevo David

    Solo founder of Postiz, the open-source agentic social media scheduler

    $250K MRR (verified)
  • Nico Jeannen avatar

    Nico Jeannen

    Ads-first indie hacker who sold Talknotes for $200K, now building AdKit

  • Nicolas Cole avatar

    Nicolas Cole

    Writer and co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, author of The Art & Business of Online Writing

  • Olly Meakings avatar

    Olly Meakings

    Co-founder of Senja, bootstrapping a testimonial tool in public to $1M ARR

    $1M ARR
  • Pablo Stanley avatar

    Pablo Stanley

    Designer and serial maker behind Humaaans, Blush and Lummi, which Udemy acquired

  • Pat Flynn avatar

    Pat Flynn

    Founder of Smart Passive Income, author of Will It Fly? and Superfans, Pokémon YouTuber

  • Pat Walls avatar

    Pat Walls

    Founder of Starter Story, the founder case-study brand acquired by HubSpot in 2026

    $1M/yr
  • Patrick McKenzie avatar

    Patrick McKenzie

    patio11: Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Stripe Atlas and Bits about Money

    ~$275K/yr sales, ~$200K profit (excl. Appointment Reminder)
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    Paul Hudson

    Creator of Hacking with Swift, the free Swift and SwiftUI learning site

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    Paul Jarvis

    Author of Company of One and co-founder of Fathom Analytics (retired 2024)

  • Paweł Huryn avatar

    Paweł Huryn

    Warsaw-based author of The Product Compass, a top AI and product management newsletter

    $126K ARR
  • Peter Askew avatar

    Peter Askew

    Domain investor who turns premium .com names into businesses — and sells onions online

  • Peter Steinberger avatar

    Peter Steinberger

    PSPDFKit founder turned creator of OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI agent

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    Pierre de Wulf

    Co-founder of ScrapingBee, bootstrapped to $5M ARR and sold to Oxylabs

    ~$5M ARR (at exit)
  • Pieter Levels avatar

    Pieter Levels

    Solo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book

    ~$219K/mo across products
  • Prajwal Tomar avatar

    Prajwal Tomar

    AI-first builder running the IgnytLabs MVP agency, a community and an AI newsletter

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    rameerez

    Solo developer who built and sold PromptHero; now making RailsFast

  • Ramy Khuffash avatar

    Ramy Khuffash

    London indie founder of Hovercode; built and sold Page Flows

  • Riley Brown avatar

    Riley Brown

    AI creator and vibe coder who co-founded Vibecode and now builds Agent Native

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    Rob Fitzpatrick

    Author of The Mom Test and Write Useful Books, building beta-reading software for authors

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    Rob Walling

    Drip founder, MicroConf and TinySeed co-founder, host of Startups for the Rest of Us

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    Rosie Sherry

    Community builder who founded Ministry of Testing and runs Rosieland

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    Ruben Gamez

    Bootstrapped founder of SignWell e-signatures and Bidsketch proposals

    Several million ARR (SignWell)
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    Ryan Hanson

    Mac indie developer behind Rectangle, Rectangle Pro, Superkey and Hyperkey

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    Ryan Kulp

    Bootstrapper who grew and sold Fomo, now building the TRMNL e-ink dashboard

  • Sahil Lavingia avatar

    Sahil Lavingia

    Founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur

    $17.8M/yr (Gumroad, 2025)
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    Scott Tolinski

    Syntax podcast co-host and creator of Level Up Tutorials

  • Sebastian Volkis avatar

    Sebastian Volkis

    AI-first builder behind TrendFeed and CodeSpring, teaching non-coders to vibe code

    $29K/mo (TrendFeed + CodeSpring)
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    Shaban Haider

    19-year-old Pakistani maker of Efferd, premium shadcn/ui blocks for developers

    $17.4K all-time
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    Shawn Wang (swyx)

    Learn-in-public advocate, Coding Career Handbook author and Latent Space host

  • Simon Høiberg avatar

    Simon Høiberg

    Ex-LEGO engineer building a bootstrapped SaaS portfolio: FeedHive, Aidbase, LinkDrip

    $400K ARR
  • Sindre Sorhus avatar

    Sindre Sorhus

    Full-time open-sourcer maintaining 1,000+ npm packages and dozens of indie Mac apps

  • Steph Smith avatar

    Steph Smith

    Creator of Doing Content Right and Internet Pipes, former a16z podcast host

  • Steve Schoger avatar

    Steve Schoger

    Designer behind Refactoring UI, Heroicons and Tailwind's look, now at Shopify

  • Takuya Matsuyama avatar

    Takuya Matsuyama

    Osaka-based solo developer of Inkdrop and the Dev as Life YouTube channel

    $10K+ MRR
  • Tanner Linsley avatar

    Tanner Linsley

    Creator of TanStack: Query, Table, Router, Start and other open source libraries

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    Thibault Louis-Lucas (Tibo)

    Built and sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio; now runs a $1M/month AI portfolio led by Revid

    ~$1M/mo across products
  • Thomas Frank avatar

    Thomas Frank

    Productivity YouTuber behind Ultimate Brain, Notion tutorials and the Flylighter clipper

    $1M in Notion template sales (2022)
  • Thomas Sanlis avatar

    Thomas Sanlis

    French developer-designer behind the Uneed launch platform and Writizzy

    $134K in 2025
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    Toby Fox

    Creator and composer of Undertale and Deltarune

  • Tom Benattar avatar

    Tom Benattar

    Lisbon-based serial SaaS builder behind Podawaa and HumanInbox, with three exits

    $66K MRR (Podawaa, verified)
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    Tracy Osborn

    WeddingLovely founder, Hello Web books author, GM at TinySeed and MicroConf

  • Tyler Tringas avatar

    Tyler Tringas

    Coined micro-SaaS, sold Storemapper, then founded Calm Company Fund for bootstrappers

    ~$40K MRR (Storemapper at sale)
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    Uku Täht

    Creator of Plausible, the open source and privacy-first Google Analytics alternative

    $1M+ ARR
  • Wes Bos avatar

    Wes Bos

    Canadian full-stack JavaScript teacher behind JavaScript30 and the Syntax podcast

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    Wilson Wilson

    Co-founded Senja to $800K ARR; now building Ferndesk, self-updating AI help docs

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    Wooyeong Kim

    Seoul-based indie Mac developer of Shotomatic, hands-free screenshot automation

    $15.8K all-time
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    Yasser Elsaid

    Solo founder who bootstrapped Chatbase from a student project to $10M ARR

    $864K MRR (verified)
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    Zach Wilson

    Ex-big-tech data engineer who built DataExpert.io into a $4.7M+ education business

    $56K MRR + cohorts; $4.7M all-time (verified)

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    Marcel Cruz

    Marcel Cruz's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 4 products.

  • Martin Donadieu avatar

    Martin Donadieu

    Martin Donadieu's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 2 products and public revenue ($30K MRR).

    $30K MRR
  • Moritz Dausinger avatar

    Moritz Dausinger

    Moritz Dausinger's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products.

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    Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)

    Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)'s profile was upgraded to a full profile with 6 products.

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    Navin Peiris

    Navin Peiris's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 2 products.

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    Piotr Obidowski

    Piotr Obidowski's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 6 products and public revenue ($8.2K MRR (Visualizee.ai, verified)).

    $8.2K MRR (Visualizee.ai, verified)
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    Richard Kovacs

    Richard Kovacs's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 4 products.

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    Rossveth Lopez

    Rossveth Lopez's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 2 products.

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    Shri Vatz

    Shri Vatz's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products and public revenue ($5K MRR).

    $5K MRR
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    Sidi Jeddou

    Sidi Jeddou's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 5 products.

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    Surjith S M

    Surjith S M's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 6 products and public revenue ($75.7K all-time (Web3Templates)).

    $75.7K all-time (Web3Templates)
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    Tony Dinh

    Tony Dinh's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 6 products and public revenue ($142K/mo (TypingMind + DevUtils)).

    $142K/mo (TypingMind + DevUtils)
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    Woody Hayday

    Woody Hayday's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products.

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    John Rush

    John Rush claimed their IndieMakerList profile.

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Milestones (17)

  • Benedikt Deicke avatar

    Benedikt Deicke

    Benedikt Deicke: Slow & Steady published its 250th episode.

    2026
  • Charlie Chapman avatar

    Charlie Chapman

    Charlie Chapman: Ran RevenueCat's Shipaton hackathon and hosted Launched live panels at Deep Dish Swift.

    2025
  • Dan Koe avatar

    Dan Koe

    Dan Koe: Said in a September video that his income had settled at $1M-$1.5M a year after peaking near $4M, as he reinvested in software.

    2026
  • Eduardo Borges avatar

    Eduardo Borges

    Eduardo Borges: Dolafy passed 200 live business customers and was profitable by September.

    2026
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    Eduardo Borges

    Eduardo Borges: Co-founded Dolafy in February with Guilherme Zanon.

    2026
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    Eduardo Borges

    Eduardo Borges: Went live on Lightspark payouts in May, five days after signing.

    2026
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    Ian Nuttall

    Ian Nuttall: URL Monitor was renamed Cromojo in November.

    2025
  • Jeff Delaney avatar

    Jeff Delaney

    Jeff Delaney: Announced in January that Fireship and ui.dev were joining forces and moving all courses to fireship.dev.

    2026
  • Jeffrey Way avatar

    Jeffrey Way

    Jeffrey Way: Released free AI-focused Laravel courses and a native Laracasts iOS app.

    2026
  • Jeffrey Way avatar

    Jeffrey Way

    Jeffrey Way: Announced in January that Laracasts had cut about 40% of staff as AI reshaped how developers learn.

    2026
  • Mike Cao avatar

    Mike Cao

    Mike Cao: Released Umami v3.0 in November.

    2025
  • Prajwal Tomar avatar

    Prajwal Tomar

    Prajwal Tomar: Grew AI MVP Builders to about 2,800 members and his combined X and Instagram audience past 100,000.

    2026
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  • Scott Tolinski avatar

    Scott Tolinski

    Scott Tolinski: Spoke on real-world local-first apps at Svelte Summit.

    2025
  • Sidi Jeddou avatar

    Sidi Jeddou

    Sidi Jeddou: Released next-to-tanstack, a CLI for migrating Next.js apps to TanStack Start.

    2025
  • Wilson Wilson avatar

    Wilson Wilson

    Wilson Wilson: Launched Ferndesk publicly in August and hit $1K MRR about three months later.

    2025
  • Wilson Wilson avatar

    Wilson Wilson

    Wilson Wilson: Announced in May that he was leaving Senja at about $800K ARR and selling his shares to Olly Meakings.

    2025
  • Wilson Wilson avatar

    Wilson Wilson

    Wilson Wilson: Ferndesk reached $3K MRR in February and $5K MRR by June.

    2026

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About the changelog

How often is IndieMakerList updated?

Every week. A research pass re-checks revenue, product status and milestones for the profiles that were checked longest ago, plus every claimed profile and the top of the revenue leaderboard, and adds new indie makers. 254 changes have been logged since Oct 5.

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