Changelog
IndieMakerList changes: week of Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026
In the week of Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026: 73 makers added, 7 revenue updates, 38 products added, 87 milestones and 4 status changes. Each entry links to the maker's profile and, where there is one, the public source of the change.
209 changes
- 73 makers added
- 7 revenue updates
- 38 products added
- 87 milestones
- 4 status changes
Revenue updates (7)
Florin Pop · iCodeThis
iCodeThis revenue changed from ~$67K lifetime to ~$118K lifetime (self-reported).
~$67K lifetime→~$118K lifetime (self-reported)
Ilias Ism's reported revenue changed from $8.1K MRR (GenPPT, verified) to $7.7K MRR (GenPPT, verified) (as of 2026-10).
$8.1K MRR (GenPPT, verified)→$7.7K MRR (GenPPT, verified)▼
Jack Friks's reported revenue changed from $48.9K MRR (Post Bridge, verified) to $47.9K MRR (Post Bridge, verified) (as of 2026-10).
$48.9K MRR (Post Bridge, verified)→$47.9K MRR (Post Bridge, verified)▼
Louis Pereira's reported revenue changed from $73K in first 2 months to $15K+/mo (as of 2025-12).
$73K in first 2 months→$15K+/mo▼
Marcel Cruz · Linkero
Added public revenue for Linkero by Marcel Cruz: $6.4K total, excluding AppSumo (TrustMRR).
$6.4K total, excluding AppSumo (TrustMRR)
Nevo David's reported revenue changed from $250K MRR (verified) to $332K MRR (verified) (as of 2026-10).
$250K MRR (verified)→$332K MRR (verified)▲
New makers (73)
- AS
Co-founder of QUITTR, the quit-porn app built in 10 days that passed $500K a month
$500K+/mo (QUITTR) 
Creator of Coolify; runs coolLabs on sponsors and cloud revenue, no investors
$34K+ MRR
Founder of WebVeda; author of Do Epic Shit; built a ₹100 crore courses business
₹100 crore+ in course sales over five years (~₹25 crore profit)- AL
Founder of Letterly, the AI voice-to-text app making about $250K a month
$250K/mo - BS
Co-founder of Lux, maker of the award-winning Halide, Kino and Spectre camera apps
- BT
Creator of Stratechery; pioneer of the one-person paid newsletter business
Creator of RizzGPT (PlugAI) and Umax; co-founder of Cal AI; runs the 10X app studio
- BM
Creator of CARROT Weather; one-man studio behind the snarky CARROT apps
Founder of Platformer, the independent tech newsletter; co-host of Machine Gods
Co-founder and CEO of Wistia; bought back the company with $17M of debt
- CG
Co-founder of Snappa, bootstrapped to $1.6M ARR; now building GoodMetrics
Just under $1M ARR (peak $1.6M) - CS
Founder of Contrarian Thinking; author of Main Street Millionaire
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- CH
Founder of Castos podcast hosting; host of Rogue Startups; building UltraClip
7-figure ARR - CH
Co-creator of Twitterrific, the first Twitter app; principal at the Iconfactory
- DB
Creator of Storyteller and Dragonsweeper; Argentine solo game designer
Founder of Write of Passage, the cohort writing course; host of How I Write
~$2M/yr (Write of Passage)- DG
Creator of Teardown and co-creator of Smash Hit; founder of Tuxedo Labs
- DD
Creator of Crouton, the recipe app that won a 2024 Apple Design Award
Co-founder of TinySeed and founder of Discretion Capital, the SaaS M&A bank
- EY
Creator of Vue.js and Vite; founder of VoidZero, acquired by Cloudflare in 2026
- FV
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories; co-host of AppStories
Go cryptography maintainer; founder of Geomys, a firm of professional OSS maintainers
- FC
Author of 20+ programming handbooks; runs the Bootcamp and AI Workshop cohorts
- FD
Founder of Tool Finder (formerly Keep Productive); productivity software reviewer
- GR
Co-founder of Outseta, the bootstrapped all-in-one membership software
Low 7-figure ARR 
Creator of Insomnia (sold to Kong) and Yaak, the local-first API client
$20K MRR (Insomnia, before its 2019 sale)- HL
Co-founder and CTO of Cal AI, the teen-built calorie app sold to MyFitnessPal
Founder of Indexsy; builds SEO and AI tools like LocalRank.so and Trackings.ai in public
$2.92M in 2025- JM
Creator of Laravel Shift, the automated upgrade service that passed $1M in revenue
$267K in 2020; $1M lifetime by Nov 2021 - JG
Author of Ansible for DevOps; open-source maintainer and Raspberry Pi YouTuber
- JY
Founder of Lunch Money, the bootstrapped budgeting app she built solo
$34K MRR - JW
Founder of Copyhackers; author of The Copyselling System; Airstory co-founder
Founder and CEO of Buffer, the profitable, fully remote social media tool
$22.4M ARR- JP
Founder of Deconstructeam; director of The Red Strings Club and Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
- JG
Co-founder of Gravl, the bootstrapped AI strength-training app at about $440K a month
$440K/mo - KV
Creator of Polypane, the browser for web developers; solo founder in the Netherlands
- KA
Founder of Toge Productions, the Indonesian studio behind Coffee Talk and Infectonator
- LM
Creator of Structured, the visual day planner with 15M+ downloads
- MP
Co-founder and CTO of Beyond Code; maker of Tinkerwell, Laravel Herd and Expose
CEO of Rogue Snail; designer of Hell Clock, Relic Hunters and Chroma Squad
- MD
Creator of Material for MkDocs; founder of Zensical, a Rust-based static site generator
$200K/yr (Insiders sponsorships) 
YouTuber and filmmaker behind the Master YouTube course and the slow creator movement
Creator of the Caddy web server, funded full-time by open-source sponsorships
Creator of Beekeeper Studio, the open-source SQL editor funded by a paid edition
Founder of Talk Python Training and host of the Talk Python To Me podcast
Founder of Zernio (formerly Late), the social media API that hit $1M ARR in 10 months
$1M ARR- NJ
Founder of Mimestream, the native Mac email client for Gmail; ex-Apple Mail lead
Creator of Not Boring, the 250K-subscriber tech strategy newsletter
- PH
Co-founder and developer of Tapbots, maker of Tweetbot, Ivory, Pastebot and Calcbot
- PK
Creator of Hazel, the Mac file-automation app; one-man company Noodlesoft
- PM
Self-published author of The Pathless Path (86K+ copies); shares live sales data
$1M+ earned over eight years solo; $404,933 from The Pathless Path - PG
Founder and CEO of Balsamiq, the bootstrapped wireframing tool
- PL
Solo developer of Keyboard Maestro; Mac shareware pioneer behind Anarchie
Creator of daisyUI, the most popular component library for Tailwind CSS
Creator of Streaks; Adelaide indie dev behind the Apple Design Award-winning habit app
Founder of Flux Academy; YouTuber teaching Webflow, Framer and web design
- RF
Co-founder of SparkToro and Moz; author of Lost and Founder; runs Snackbar Studio
Creator of BBEdit; founder of Bare Bones Software, a Mac indie since 1993
- RC
Co-founder of GojiberryAI, the AI sales agent at $424K verified MRR; sold CoCo AI
$424K MRR - RM
Founder and solo developer of Raindrop.io, the all-in-one bookmark manager
- R
Creator of Higurashi and Umineko When They Cry; leader of doujin circle 07th Expansion
Dead Cells lead designer; solo dev at Deepnight Games, maker of LDtk and Tenjutsu
Founder of Farnam Street; author of Clear Thinking and The Great Mental Models
- SR
Creator of Reeder, the RSS reader for Apple devices, and the Mela recipe app
Founder of Codédex, the game-like learn-to-code platform at $82K verified MRR
$82K MRR
Founder and CEO of Podia; co-founder of Carbonmade
- SE
Co-founder and CEO of Close, the bootstrapped sales CRM; host of The Startup Chat
Creator of Building a Second Brain and the PARA Method; founder of Forte Labs
Founder of Prosp and Speel, two bootstrapped AI tools past $1M ARR; now building Connie
$193K MRR across Prosp and Speel- ZC
Creator of Soulver, the natural-language notepad calculator for Mac, iPad and iPhone
Co-founder of Cal AI, the photo calorie app sold to MyFitnessPal; now building Persona
Founder of Keygen, the fair source software licensing API he has run since 2016
Creator of the Touhou Project; one-man studio Team Shanghai Alice since 1996
New products (38)
Brad Traversy · Stackmaven
New product listed for Brad Traversy: Stackmaven — Catalog of developer and AI tools with news and opinionated verdicts.
Brad Traversy · PortDoc
New product listed for Brad Traversy: PortDoc — Local control panel for dev servers, ports, conflicts and stale processes.
Brad Traversy · DevStash
New product listed for Brad Traversy: DevStash — Snippet manager for stashing and sharing developer code snippets, built as the project of his Coding With AI course.
Brad Traversy · NameScout
New product listed for Brad Traversy: NameScout — Checks a project name across domains, package registries, code hosts and plugin marketplaces in one report.
Brian Casel · Design OS
Brian Casel launched Design OS — Free open-source companion to Agent OS for planning product designs with AI coding agents.
Dan Salvato · Magicore Anomala
New product listed for Dan Salvato: Magicore Anomala — Modern bullet hell game for the Commodore Amiga, written in 68k assembly; release date TBA.
Dan Salvato · 20XX Tournament Edition
New product listed for Dan Salvato: 20XX Tournament Edition — Super Smash Bros. Melee mod with training and tournament features that runs on unmodified consoles from a memory card.
Dickie Bush · Write With AI
New product listed for Dickie Bush: Write With AI — Paid newsletter on using ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools as a personal writing assistant.
Dickie Bush · Typeshare
New product listed for Dickie Bush: Typeshare — Writing and publishing platform with templates, hosting and analytics for people writing online.
Easlo · Easlo Journal
Easlo launched Easlo Journal — Minimal iOS journaling app with saved templates and prompts.
Easlo · Mononote
Easlo launched Mononote — Keeps one important note visible on the iPhone Home Screen, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
Easlo · Easlo Experiments
Easlo launched Easlo Experiments — iOS app for trying new habits as timed experiments, with check-ins, notes, photos and widgets.
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Easlo · ScreenFast
Easlo launched ScreenFast — iOS blocker for distracting apps and websites, with timed breaks that resume blocking automatically.
Frey Chu · Discover Plasma
New product listed for Frey Chu: Discover Plasma — Directory comparing donor pay rates and bonuses at more than 1,250 plasma donation centers in the US.
Frey Chu · HeyLinks
New product listed for Frey Chu: HeyLinks — AI backlink outreach tool that finds sites linking to competitors and writes a personal email for each.
- GG
Gani Georgiev · fexpr
New product listed for Gani Georgiev: fexpr — Go parser for simple filter expressions, used for PocketBase's query syntax.
Ilias Ism · MagicBuddy
New product listed for Ilias Ism: MagicBuddy — AI assistant on Telegram for quick research, notes and drafts.
Jason Fried · Fizzy
Jason Fried launched Fizzy — Kanban-style tracker for issues, ideas and small projects, with source code you can self-host.
Kent C. Dodds · Kody
New product listed for Kent C. Dodds: Kody — Shared cloud for the credentials, memory, tools and workflows that a team's AI agents use.
Kevin Naughton Jr. · The Daily Byte
New product listed for Kevin Naughton Jr.: The Daily Byte — Coding interview prep platform with a curriculum of 365 curated coding problems.
Kevin Yun · ComplyDog
New product listed for Kevin Yun: ComplyDog — GDPR compliance software for software companies; Kevin says it was acquired for 10x ARR in under a year (acquired).
Lee Hills · Carousel Examples
New product listed for Lee Hills: Carousel Examples — Curated library of LinkedIn carousel examples for creators and marketers, built with Bubble.
Martin Donadieu · Captime
New product listed for Martin Donadieu: Captime — Workout timer app for CrossFit and high-intensity interval training, the app whose update problems led to Capgo.
Mckay Wrigley · AgentShare
Mckay Wrigley launched AgentShare — Workspace for creating, sharing and running AI agents on your Mac or in the cloud.
Miguel Ángel Durán · Codember
New product listed for Miguel Ángel Durán: Codember — Free online programming challenge event from midudev.
Miguel Ángel Durán · JSCamp
Miguel Ángel Durán launched JSCamp — Spanish-language JavaScript bootcamp run by midudev.
Mike Cao · Dream
New product listed for Mike Cao: Dream — Open-source desktop IDE that keeps AI coding agents, projects, terminals and Git in one workspace.
Mike Cao · Astrofox
New product listed for Mike Cao: Astrofox — Free, open-source motion graphics app that turns audio into audio-reactive videos.
Mike Moloney · GlutenBee
New product listed for Mike Moloney: GlutenBee — Information site about gluten-free living and gluten-related diet issues.
Nevo David · Nevo's Brain
Nevo David launched Nevo's Brain — Free MCP server that plugs Nevo David's marketing and growth playbook into AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.
Nick Velkovski · Loopster
New product listed for Nick Velkovski: Loopster — GTM orchestration platform built by HeyReach: build lists, enrich contacts and launch outreach plays for one flat fee.
Nicolas Cole · Write With AI
New product listed for Nicolas Cole: Write With AI — Weekly paid newsletter sharing ChatGPT and Claude writing prompts.
Steve Schoger · Zondicons
New product listed for Steve Schoger: Zondicons — Free set of SVG icons he designed before Heroicons.
Tanner Linsley · TanStack DB
New product listed for Tanner Linsley: TanStack DB — Reactive client-side data store for TanStack apps; 1.0 release candidate in October 2026.
Tanner Linsley · TanStack Charts
Tanner Linsley launched TanStack Charts — Charting library from the TanStack family; reached 1.0 in October 2026.
Tanner Linsley · TanStack Virtual
New product listed for Tanner Linsley: TanStack Virtual — Headless virtualization for long lists and large grids.
Tristan Roth · Use AI Securely
New product listed for Tristan Roth: Use AI Securely — AI literacy courses for using AI responsibly at work, with free courses on Udemy.
Tristan Roth · AI Security Directory
New product listed for Tristan Roth: AI Security Directory — Directory of AI security tools and resources.
Product status changes (4)
Louis Pereira · Tiny Testimonial
Tiny Testimonial by Louis Pereira is now listed as shut down.
active→shut down
Milestones (87)
Abhi Bisht: Working on infrastructure for Meta Superintelligence Labs in Dublin; Fyli's domain is listed for sale.
2026
Akshay Saini: Gave a TEDx talk at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies on his path from coder to edtech founder.
2025
Alex Finn: Gained wide attention for his OpenClaw agent Henry and started Henry Intelligent Machines.
2026Alex Finn: Launched Creator Buddy publicly in January; later shared its story on Starter Story.
2025
An Nayal: Sold Flamme to Arya after a cold LinkedIn DM, a deal covered by Business Insider.
2026An Nayal: Spoke at App Growth Summit Berlin on reaching 50M+ organic views with no paid spend.
2026Brad Traversy: Posted an update on his and the channel's future and launched the new Modern React course.
2025Brad Traversy: Runs bradtraversy.dev as a public lab, shipping projects like DevSheets, DevStash, SkillPass and Vidpipe with a near-daily devlog.
2026
Brett Williams: Designjoy at about $100K MRR, still run solo, while building GatherOS and Playgrnd.
2026Brett Williams: Described Designjoy as a roughly $2M-a-year solo business on the Product Growth podcast.
2025Brian Casel: Closed his consulting work in November to focus on Builder Methods and began Design OS in December.
2025
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Channing Allen: Started Hatch, an AI workspace and assistant, with Courtland in May while running Indie Hackers.
2025
Chris Coyier: Launched CodePen 2.0 on July 23, a full rebuild with projects and one-click deploys.
2026Dagobert Renouf: Married in Lille on 25 October wearing a suit sponsored by 26 startups, a story covered worldwide.
2025
Daniel Vassallo: Sold Small Bets to Gumroad for $3.6M (50% cash, 50% stock options), agreeing to keep running it for five years.
2025
Danny Postma: HeadshotPro passed 250,000 customers; began posting YouTube videos about building with AI agents.
2026
David Heinemeier Hansson: Released Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux setup for developers.
2025
Filipe Deschamps: Opened pre-sales for IA para quem programa de verdade, a curso.dev course on AI-assisted programming.
2026Florin Pop: Sold iCodeThis to Boot.dev for $50,000, launched Indie Action and started 1-on-1 consulting.
2025Frey Chu: Profiled in GeoDirectory's founder story series for his thrift directory and directory-building method.
2025- GG
Gani Georgiev: Moved his projects to his own site, ganigeorgiev.com; PocketBase passed 60,000 GitHub stars.
2026 
Gergely Orosz: Held the first Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco (about 500 attendees) and grew the team with two engineer-writers.
2026
Henrik Westerlund: Marked 14 months at Lovable as the company raised a $330M Series B.
2025Ilias Ism: GenPPT passed about $178K in verified all-time revenue at roughly $7.7K MRR.
2026
Jack Friks: Post Bridge passed $500K in all-time verified revenue at about $48K a month.
2026Jack Friks: Turned down a reported $1M offer for Post Bridge, moved out of his mom's basement and launched Lovelee.
2025Jason Fried: Released Fizzy, a kanban tool whose source code anyone can run on their own servers.
2025
Jeffrey Way: Saw Laracasts revenue decline month after month as AI coding tools spread.
2025Jeffrey Way: Announced in January that Laracasts was cutting about 40% of staff because of AI.
2026
Justin Duke: Working on Buttondown's 2026 roadmap, including paid subscriptions 2.0 and self-hosted SMTP, alongside Third South Capital.
2026
Kent C. Dodds: Building Kody and co-teaching the MEGA.dev program for developers who build with AI agents.
2026Kent C. Dodds: Launched Epic AI, focused on building AI apps and the Model Context Protocol.
2025
Kevin Sahin: ScrapingBee was acquired by the Oxylabs group in an eight-figure deal announced in June.
2025
Lee Hills: Sold The Workflows, LaunchCasts and ViewExport, and launched BoardCalculate.
2025
Lenny Rachitsky: Cut the newsletter to two to four issues a month and released Lenny's Data, an AI-ready archive of his writing and podcast transcripts.
2026Lenny Rachitsky: Newsletter passed one million subscribers; launched the How I AI podcast and the Product Pass bundle.
2025Martin Donadieu: Capgo reached about $30K MRR, tracked publicly toward a $50K goal.
2026
Mckay Wrigley: Renamed Takeoff to MagicLearn and launched Magic MCP, AI for Code and AI for Work tracks.
2026
Micah McGonigal (mystman12): Had shipped version 0.14 of Baldi's Basics Plus by April and began work toward version 1.0.
2026Miguel Ángel Durán: Gave the Nerdearla talk on the future for developers, covering AI and MCP.
2026Miguel Ángel Durán: Hosted miduConf 2025, including a live interview with Chema Alonso.
2025Mike Cao: Umami neared 40,000 GitHub stars with the v3.4 release line, and Mike began building Dream, an open-source IDE for AI coding.
2026Nevo David: Reached about $332K MRR verified on TrustMRR in October, with more than $1.6M in all-time revenue; the Postiz repo passed 40,000 GitHub stars.
2026Nick Velkovski: HeyReach reported $14M ARR in April and more than $19M ARR with 7,500+ customers in October.
2026Nick Velkovski: Co-founded Loopster, a GTM orchestration and contact-data platform built by HeyReach.
2026Nick Velkovski: LinkedIn removed HeyReach's company page and the founders' profiles in March.
2026
OMOCAT: Kodansha USA published the first English Omori manga volume; launched a Persona 30th Anniversary collection with SEGA and Atlus.
2026
Paul Hudson: Released Kickstart, an App Store app that helps indie developers launch and market apps.
2026
Pieter Levels: Reported Photo AI at about $105K a month and announced his first investment exit, a levels.vc stake in Cursor.
2026
Riley Brown: Left Vibecode and started Agent Native, a company teaching people to work with AI agents, based in Brooklyn.
2026
Rob Fitzpatrick: Building Help This Book and the Useful Books membership, which counts 400+ nonfiction authors.
2026
Robert Topala: Geometry Dash topped 100,000 concurrent players on Steam in January.
2026
Sahil Lavingia: Gumroad reported $17.8M revenue for the year; Sahil stepped down as CEO after 14 years and joined the IRS as a career employee.
2025
Shawn Wang (swyx): Announced on September 8 that most of the smol.ai team would join Cognition, keeping Latent Space and AI Engineer independent.
2025Shawn Wang (swyx): Ran the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco from June 29 to July 2.
2026
Simon Høiberg: Launched SignupGate, a fake-signup and disposable-email blocker, in September.
2025Steve Schoger: Joined Shopify as a senior staff designer when Tailwind Labs joined the company in September.
2026Tanner Linsley: Declared TanStack Start 1.0 stable and production-ready on October 13.
2026Tanner Linsley: Introduced TanStack Redact, a smaller replacement for React and React DOM in the browser, on October 26.
2026
Thibault Louis-Lucas (Tibo): Reported roughly $1M per month across Revid, Outrank, SuperX, Squad and his other products.
2026Tristan Roth: Launched heyGRC, a GitHub app that reviews pull requests for compliance issues.
2025Tristan Roth: Better ISMS scheduled its own ISO 27001 certification audit for November.
2026Tristan Roth: Launched Aevral; free AI literacy courses on Udemy passed 50,000 enrollments.
2026Tristan Roth: Released dedicated assistants for ISO 27001, DORA and the EU AI Act in ISMS Copilot, which passed 1,500 users.
2025