# IndieMakerList

> Discover the world's best indie makers and bootstrapped founders: rich profiles, products, self-reported revenue, courses, communities and launch platforms. Curated by John Rush.

IndieMakerList is a curated directory of 385 indie makers (bootstrapped, solo or tiny-team founders) from 50 countries, with 1198 products and 525 courses, books and resources made by makers. Revenue figures are only shown when publicly self-reported, with a source link. Curated by John Rush (https://indiemakerlist.com/p/john-rush/).

## Key pages
- [All indie makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/makers/): searchable directory by category, country, followers and revenue
- [Revenue leaderboard](https://indiemakerlist.com/leaderboard/): indie makers ranked by publicly reported revenue
- [State of Indie Makers 2026](https://indiemakerlist.com/report/2026/): data report on indie maker revenue, countries, stacks and exits
- [Maker journeys](https://indiemakerlist.com/journeys/): how long indie makers took to reach $1K, $10K and $100K MRR
- [Indie alternatives](https://indiemakerlist.com/alternatives/): indie-made alternatives to big software tools
- [Maker comparisons](https://indiemakerlist.com/compare/): side-by-side comparisons of indie makers
- [Tech stack](https://indiemakerlist.com/stack/): tools indie makers build with, with a page per tool
- [Ask the Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/ask/): AI answers grounded in indie maker profiles
- [Products by indie makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/products/)
- [Courses, books & resources by makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/learn/)
- [Where to launch your product](https://indiemakerlist.com/launch/): launch platforms and directories
- [Best indie maker communities](https://indiemakerlist.com/communities/)
- [Buy & sell side projects](https://indiemakerlist.com/marketplaces/)
- [Indie exits & acquisitions](https://indiemakerlist.com/exits/)
- [Guides](https://indiemakerlist.com/guides/): what is an indie maker, how to become one, how to launch

## Categories
- [SaaS Founders](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/saas/): Solo and tiny-team founders running subscription software businesses.
- [AI Builders](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/ai/): Makers shipping AI-powered apps, wrappers, agents and tools.
- [Directory Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/directories/): Makers who build and monetize curated directories and listing sites.
- [Boilerplate & Starter Kit Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/boilerplates/): Makers selling code templates, starter kits and boilerplates to ship faster.
- [Developer Tools](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/devtools/): Makers building APIs, SDKs, CLIs and infrastructure for developers.
- [No-Code Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/no-code/): Makers who build products with no-code and low-code tools like Bubble, Webflow and Framer.
- [Mobile App Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/mobile-apps/): Indie developers shipping iOS and Android apps.
- [Browser Extension Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/browser-extensions/): Makers building Chrome, Safari and Firefox extensions.
- [Mac & Desktop App Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/mac-apps/): Indie developers building native desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux.
- [Open Source Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/open-source/): Makers running sustainable businesses around open source software.
- [Creators & Writers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/creators/): Makers who build audiences with newsletters, YouTube, podcasts and social.
- [Educators & Course Creators](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/educators/): Makers who teach — courses, books, cohorts and communities for builders.
- [Marketing & SEO Tools](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/marketing-tools/): Makers building tools for SEO, social media, ads, email and growth.
- [Productivity Tools](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/productivity/): Makers of note-taking, task, calendar and focus tools.
- [Design Tools](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/design-tools/): Makers building design assets, mockup tools, icon sets and creative software.
- [Analytics & Data](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/analytics/): Makers building privacy-friendly analytics, dashboards and data products.
- [Fintech & Payments](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/fintech/): Makers building tools for money, invoicing, payments and finance.
- [E-commerce](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/ecommerce/): Makers selling physical or digital goods and building tools for online stores.
- [Community Builders](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/communities/): Makers running paid communities, job boards and maker hubs.
- [Indie Game Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/games/): Solo developers making and selling games.
- [Hardware Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/hardware/): Makers shipping physical products and devices.
- [Acquirers & Indie Investors](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/investors/): Makers who buy, grow and fund small internet businesses.
- [Productized Services](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/agencies/): Makers who turned services into productized, scalable offers.
- [Digital Nomads](https://indiemakerlist.com/categories/nomads/): Location-independent makers who build while traveling the world.

## Collections
- [$1M+ ARR Club](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/million-dollar-makers/): Indie makers who publicly reported crossing $1M in annual revenue, largely bootstrapped.
- [Build in Public Legends](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/build-in-public/): Makers known for openly sharing revenue, metrics and lessons as they build.
- [Serial Makers (10+ products)](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/serial-makers/): Makers who have launched 10 or more products.
- [Exited Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/exited/): Indie makers who sold one or more of their products.
- [Solo Founders](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/solo-founders/): One-person businesses — no co-founder, no employees (or almost none).
- [Bootstrapped](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/bootstrapped/): Makers who grew without venture capital.
- [Maker Couples & Duos](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/maker-couples/): Partners and duos who build products together.
- [Young Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/young-makers/): Makers who started building profitable products in their teens or early twenties.
- [Rising Makers](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/rising/): Up-and-coming makers growing fast right now.
- [Indie Hall of Fame](https://indiemakerlist.com/collections/legends/): The makers who shaped the indie hacker movement.

## Countries
- [Indie makers in United States](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/united-states/) (80)
- [Indie makers in United Kingdom](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/united-kingdom/) (21)
- [Indie makers in Canada](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/canada/) (17)
- [Indie makers in France](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/france/) (16)
- [Indie makers in Germany](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/germany/) (14)
- [Indie makers in India](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/india/) (14)
- [Indie makers in Portugal](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/portugal/) (7)
- [Indie makers in Brazil](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/brazil/) (5)
- [Indie makers in Netherlands](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/netherlands/) (5)
- [Indie makers in Poland](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/poland/) (5)
- [Indie makers in Singapore](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/singapore/) (5)
- [Indie makers in Australia](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/australia/) (4)
- [Indie makers in Denmark](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/denmark/) (4)
- [Indie makers in South Africa](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/south-africa/) (4)
- [Indie makers in Spain](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/spain/) (4)
- [Indie makers in Sweden](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/sweden/) (4)
- [Indie makers in Vietnam](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/vietnam/) (4)
- [Indie makers in Indonesia](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/indonesia/) (3)
- [Indie makers in Japan](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/japan/) (3)
- [Indie makers in Thailand](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/thailand/) (3)
- [Indie makers in Austria](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/austria/) (2)
- [Indie makers in Hungary](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/hungary/) (2)
- [Indie makers in Nigeria](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/nigeria/) (2)
- [Indie makers in Pakistan](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/pakistan/) (2)
- [Indie makers in Romania](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/romania/) (2)
- [Indie makers in Switzerland](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/switzerland/) (2)
- [Indie makers in Ukraine](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/ukraine/) (2)
- [Indie makers in Albania](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/albania/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Belgium](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/belgium/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Bulgaria](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/bulgaria/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Croatia](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/croatia/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Czechia](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/czechia/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Egypt](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/egypt/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Estonia](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/estonia/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Finland](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/finland/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Greece](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/greece/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Hong Kong](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/hong-kong/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Ireland](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/ireland/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Mauritania](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/mauritania/) (1)
- [Indie makers in Morocco](https://indiemakerlist.com/countries/morocco/) (1)

## Featured maker profiles
- [John Rush](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/john-rush/): Running a bootstrapped empire of 24+ SaaS products and directories — revenue $3M/yr — products: Unicorn Platform, SEObot, ListingBott, DevHunt, IndexRusher
- [Marc Lou](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/marc-lou/): French solopreneur from Bali behind TrustMRR, DataFast, ShipFast and 30+ startups — revenue $98K/mo (July 2026) — products: TrustMRR, DataFast, CodeFast, ShipFast, Ship or Die
- [Pieter Levels](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/pieter-levels/): Solo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book — revenue ~$219K/mo across products — products: Photo AI, Vibe Jam, Interior AI, Nomads.com (formerly Nomad List), Remote OK
- [Julia Evans](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/julia-evans/): Montreal developer behind Wizard Zines, illustrated guides to computing fundamentals — revenue $101,558 in 2018 (zine business) — products: Wizard Zines, Mess With DNS, Memory Spy, nginx playground, integer.exposed
- [Adam Wathan](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/adam-wathan/): Creator of Tailwind CSS who built a multi-million-dollar business on open source — revenue Mid-seven figures/yr (2020) — products: Tailwind CSS, Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI), Refactoring UI, Headless UI, Heroicons
- [Kitze](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/kitze/): Serial maker of Sizzy, Benji and Tinkerer Club who teaches devs to ship — revenue $223K in 30 days (verified, Tinkerer Club launch); $400K+ total verified — products: Sizzy, Benji, Tinkerer Club, Zero To Shipped, Sotto
- [Thibault Louis-Lucas (Tibo)](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/thibault-louis-lucas/): Built and sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio; now runs a $1M/month AI portfolio led by Revid — revenue ~$1M/mo across products — products: Revid, Outrank, SuperX, PostSyncer, Feather
- [Patrick McKenzie](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/patrick-mckenzie/): patio11: Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Stripe Atlas and Bits about Money — revenue ~$275K/yr sales, ~$200K profit (excl. Appointment Reminder) — products: Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Starfighter, Bits about Money, Complex Systems
- [Jakob Greenfeld](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jakob-greenfeld/): Physicist turned permissionless entrepreneur, co-founder of Sales.co — revenue $90K/mo (Sales.co) — products: Sales.co, Founder Flywheel, Opportunities.so, Newsletter Spy, What to Tweet
- [Corey Haines](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/corey-haines/): SaaS marketer behind Swipe Files, Conversion Factory and the top AI marketing skills repo — revenue $1M ARR (Conversion Factory) — products: Conversion Factory, Swipe Files, Marketing Skills, Magister, SwipeWell
- [Thomas Frank](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/thomas-frank/): Productivity YouTuber behind Ultimate Brain, Notion tutorials and the Flylighter clipper — revenue $1M in Notion template sales (2022) — products: Ultimate Brain, Creator's Companion, Flylighter, College Info Geek, Notion Formula Reference
- [Dan Koe](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/dan-koe/): One-person business writer behind The Art of Focus and co-founder of the Eden content app — revenue $1M-$1.5M/yr — products: Eden, The 2 Hour Writer
- [Tony Dinh](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/tony-dinh/): Vietnamese indie hacker behind TypingMind, DevUtils, and exits Black Magic and Xnapper — revenue $142K/mo (TypingMind + DevUtils) — products: TypingMind, DevUtils, Black Magic, Xnapper, Make a Website
- [Brad Traversy](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/brad-traversy/): Web dev educator behind Traversy Media, plus a public lab of indie dev tools — products: Traversy Media, DevSheets, WebUtils, ApiMocker, Vidpipe
- [Lenny Rachitsky](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/lenny-rachitsky/): Former Airbnb product lead behind Lenny's Newsletter and Lenny's Podcast — revenue $1M+/yr (newsletter and podcast, each over $500K) — products: Lenny's Newsletter, Lenny's Podcast, Lenny's Jobs, Lenny's Product Pass
- [Jack Friks](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jack-friks/): Self-taught Canadian solo builder of Post Bridge and a string of consumer apps — revenue $48.9K MRR (Post Bridge, verified) — products: Post Bridge, Lovelee, Curiosity Quench, Deep Work Depot, Doof
- [Marc Köhlbrugge](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/marc-kohlbrugge/): Serial maker behind BetaList, WIP and Startup Jobs, shipping online for 20+ years — products: BetaList, WIP, Startup Jobs, Room AI, AI Jobs
- [Ian Nuttall](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ian-nuttall/): SEO veteran and serial internet entrepreneur shipping AI-coded SEO tools — revenue $100K ARR (Keyword Metrics + URL Monitor) — products: ian.is SEO tools, URL Monitor (now Cromojo), Keyword Metrics, Practical Programmatic
- [Matt Pocock](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/matt-pocock/): TypeScript and AI engineering educator behind Total TypeScript and AI Hero — products: AI Hero, Total TypeScript, ts-reset, Evalite, Skills for Real Engineers
- [Pat Walls](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/pat-walls/): Founder of Starter Story, the founder case-study brand acquired by HubSpot in 2026 — revenue $1M/yr — products: Starter Story, Starter Story Build
- [Nathan Barry](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/nathan-barry/): Founder of Kit (ConvertKit), bootstrapped from a failing side project to $1M+ MRR — revenue $1.19M MRR (ConvertKit) — products: Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
- [Damon Chen](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/damon-chen/): Ex-Cisco engineer who built Testimonial.to and grew acquired PDF.ai into a top AI PDF tool — revenue $1.3M ARR (Testimonial.to + PDF.ai) — products: Testimonial.to, PDF.ai, Chat.sh, PDFgen, QuickyAI
- [Sahil Lavingia](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/sahil-lavingia/): Founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur — revenue $17.8M/yr (Gumroad, 2025) — products: Gumroad, Flexile, Helper
- [Tyler Tringas](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/tyler-tringas/): Coined micro-SaaS, sold Storemapper, then founded Calm Company Fund for bootstrappers — revenue ~$40K MRR (Storemapper at sale) — products: Storemapper, Calm Company Fund (formerly Earnest Capital), BK UP
- [Caleb Porzio](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/caleb-porzio/): Creator of Livewire, Alpine.js and Flux UI, funded by sponsors and component sales — revenue $112K/yr from GitHub Sponsors — products: Livewire, Alpine.js, Flux, Alpine UI Components, Sushi
- [Mike Taber](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/mike-taber/): MicroConf co-founder, Bluetick founder and author of The Single Founder Handbook — revenue Five-figure MRR (Bluetick) — products: Bluetick, MicroConf, FounderCafe, AuditShark
- [Easlo](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/easlo/): Singapore-based Notion template creator behind Second Brain and SyncTasks — revenue $239K in 2022 — products: Notion Second Brain, Finance Tracker, Easlo Templates, SyncTasks, The Digital Minimalist
- [Adam Lyttle](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/adam-lyttle/): Australian indie dev running a portfolio of 30+ simple iOS apps — revenue $70K/mo — products: Card Value Scanner for Pokemon, Swipe the cat, PIANORUN, Fish Identifier: AI Scanner, iMic
- [Daniel Vassallo](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/daniel-vassallo/): Ex-Amazon engineer who popularized the small bets portfolio approach — revenue $210K profit in 9 months (info products) — products: Small Bets, Userbase, Single Server, Full Send
- [Ali Abdaal](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ali-abdaal/): Doctor-turned-YouTuber, author of Feel-Good Productivity and Part-Time YouTuber Academy — revenue $4M+ in 2022 — products: Part-Time YouTuber Academy, Superfocus, 6med
- [Derrick Reimer](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/derrick-reimer/): Founder of SavvyCal; co-founded Drip, which sold to Leadpages — revenue $20K MRR — products: SavvyCal, Drip, Codetree, StaticKit, Level
- [Justin Welsh](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/justin-welsh/): Solopreneur who passed $10M in revenue with a one-person business — revenue $10M+ total revenue (lifetime) — products: The LinkedIn Operating System, The Content Operating System, The Saturday Essay
- [Guillaume Moubeche](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/guillaume-moubeche/): Co-founder of lemlist, bootstrapped from $1K to tens of millions in ARR — revenue ~$40M ARR (lempire) — products: lemlist, lemwarm, lemcal, Taplio, Tweet Hunter
- [John O'Nolan](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/john-onolan/): Founder and CEO of Ghost, the open source, non-profit publishing platform — revenue Ghost: ~$11.1M ARR — products: Ghost, Alcove
- [Wes Bos](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/wes-bos/): Canadian full-stack JavaScript teacher behind JavaScript30 and the Syntax podcast — products: Syntax, Wes Bos Courses
- [Maximilian Schwarzmüller](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/maximilian-schwarzmuller/): Co-founder of Academind, bestselling coding instructor with 3.5M+ students — products: Academind, AI Enhanced Dev, Business Headshots AI
- [Derek Sivers](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/derek-sivers/): Musician who accidentally built CD Baby, sold it for $22M, and writes books on how to live — products: CD Baby, HostBaby, Wood Egg
- [Justin Jackson](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/justin-jackson/): Co-founder and CEO of Transistor.fm, the bootstrapped 'calm company' for podcast hosting — products: Transistor.fm, MegaMaker, Marketing for Developers, Meeps, Product Press
- [Kevin Powell](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/kevin-powell/): Canadian CSS educator with 1,000+ YouTube videos and The Cascade course platform — products: The Cascade, CSS Demystified, Kevin Powell YouTube channel
- [Fabrizio Rinaldi](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/fabrizio-rinaldi/): Designer and co-founder of Typefully; previously built and sold Mailbrew — revenue Typefully: ~$2M ARR — products: Typefully, Mailbrew, Boxy Suite, Unreadit, lofi.cafe
- [Karl Hughes](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/karl-hughes/): Former CTO who built Draft.dev to $2.5M and now acquires podcast agencies — revenue $2.5M/yr (Draft.dev, 2022) — products: Draft.dev, The Podcast Consultant, Rise25
- [Jon Yongfook](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jon-yongfook/): Solo founder who bootstrapped Bannerbear, an image and video automation API, to $81K MRR — revenue $81K MRR — products: Bannerbear, Redacted
- [Ayush Chaturvedi](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ayush-chaturvedi/): Co-founder of Elephas and Voibe, runs Superframeworks and Indie Masterminds — revenue $150K/yr (Elephas) — products: Elephas, Voibe, OutlierKit, Superframeworks, Indie Masterminds
- [Pat Flynn](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/pat-flynn/): Founder of Smart Passive Income, author of Will It Fly? and Superfans, Pokémon YouTuber — products: Smart Passive Income, SwitchPod, Deep Pocket Monster
- [Brett Williams](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/brett-williams/): Solo designer running Designjoy, a $1M+/yr one-person design subscription — revenue $100K MRR (Designjoy) + $12K MRR (Productize Yourself) — products: Designjoy, Productize Yourself, GatherOS, Playgrnd
- [Josh Pigford](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/josh-pigford/): Serial dabbler who built and sold Baremetrics for $4M, now shipping AI products — products: Baremetrics, Maybe, Knockoff, Granite, KeptWell
- [Jim Raptis](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jim-raptis/): Greek design engineer running bootstrapped tools MagicPattern, BrandBird and SuperMotion — revenue ~$6.5K MRR across three products — products: MagicPattern, BrandBird, SuperMotion, Gradients.fm, AI Selfie Studio
- [Brian Casel](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/brian-casel/): Serial bootstrapper behind Audience Ops, Clarityflow and Builder Methods — products: Builder Methods, Agent OS, Clarityflow (formerly ZipMessage), Audience Ops, Restaurant Engine
- [Gergely Orosz](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/gergely-orosz/): Ex-Uber engineering manager who writes The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter — products: The Pragmatic Engineer, The Software Engineer's Guidebook, The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
- [Ilias Ism](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ilias-ism/): SEO-first serial maker behind GenPPT, LinkDR, AI SEO Tracker and MagicSpace — revenue $8.1K MRR (GenPPT, verified) — products: GenPPT, LinkDR, AI SEO Tracker, MagicSpace SEO, SEO Roast
- [Greg Isenberg](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/greg-isenberg/): CEO of Late Checkout, host of The Startup Ideas Podcast, creator of Ideabrowser — products: Late Checkout, Ideabrowser, The Vibe Marketer, Boring Marketer, 5by
- [Jonas Schmedtmann](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jonas-schmedtmann/): Top-rated Udemy instructor teaching JavaScript, React, Node.js and CSS to 2M+ students — products: jonas.io, The Complete JavaScript Course, The Ultimate React Course
- [Simon Høiberg](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/simon-hoiberg/): Ex-LEGO engineer building a bootstrapped SaaS portfolio: FeedHive, Aidbase, LinkDrip — revenue $400K ARR — products: FeedHive, Aidbase, LinkDrip, SignupGate, FounderStack
- [Thomas Sanlis](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/thomas-sanlis/): French developer-designer behind the Uneed launch platform and Writizzy — revenue $134K in 2025 — products: Uneed, Uneed Residency, Writizzy
- [Scott Tolinski](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/scott-tolinski/): Syntax podcast co-host and creator of Level Up Tutorials — products: Level Up Tutorials, Syntax, Phases, Agent Builder
- [Daniel Nguyen](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/daniel-nguyen/): Vietnamese solopreneur bootstrapping BoltAI, a native AI workspace for Mac — revenue $33.5K/mo — products: BoltAI, PDF Pals, KTool, ShotSolve
- [Derek Yu](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/derek-yu/): Indie game designer behind Spelunky, Spelunky 2 and UFO 50, founder of Mossmouth — products: Spelunky, Spelunky 2, UFO 50, Aquaria, Eternal Daughter
- [Eduardo Borges](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/eduardo-borges/): Brazil's self-styled first digital nomad, serial AI app builder and Dolafy co-founder — products: Dolafy, Ready For Mars, Viralist.ai, FengMyShui, Viajants
- [Lynne Tye](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/lynne-tye/): Solo founder of Key Values, the job board matching engineers with values-aligned teams — revenue ~$300K–350K/yr — products: Key Values
- [Wilson Wilson](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/wilson-wilson/): Co-founded Senja to $800K ARR; now building Ferndesk, self-updating AI help docs — revenue $5K MRR (Ferndesk) — products: Ferndesk, Senja
- [Jay Clouse](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jay-clouse/): Founder of Creator Science, teaching creators to build businesses through experiments — products: Creator Science, The Lab, CreatorHQ, Unreal Collective
- [Paul Hudson](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/paul-hudson/): Creator of Hacking with Swift, the free Swift and SwiftUI learning site — products: Hacking with Swift, Hacking with Swift+, Kickstart, Unwrap, Ignite
- [Arvid Kahl](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/arvid-kahl/): Sold FeedbackPanda, wrote Zero to Sold, built Podscan in public (acquired 2026) — products: Podscan, FeedbackPanda
- [Peter Askew](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/peter-askew/): Domain investor who turns premium .com names into businesses — and sells onions online — products: VidaliaOnions.com, Onions.com, RanchWork.com, ZooJobs.com, DudeRanch.com
- [Kevon Cheung](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/kevon-cheung/): Hong Kong educator who taught building in public, now building AI learning tools for kids — products: Public Lab, Chatty Bestie, AlphaStage
- [Jack Butcher](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jack-butcher/): Founder of Visualize Value: minimalist visuals, courses on leverage, and digital art — products: Visualize Value, Checks VV Edition, jackbutcher.md
- [Paweł Huryn](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/pawel-huryn/): Warsaw-based author of The Product Compass, a top AI and product management newsletter — revenue $126K ARR — products: The Product Compass
- [Giancarlo Buomprisco](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/giancarlo-buomprisco/): Italian developer in Taipei who built Makerkit, the B2B SaaS starter kit — revenue $8,606 in a month (Makerkit, month 6) — products: Makerkit, Formtoro, ngx-chips
- [Louis Pereira](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/louis-pereira/): Goa-based maker of AudioPen, the AI voice-to-text notes app — revenue $73K in first 2 months — products: AudioPen, Read Something Great, Tiny Testimonial
- [Pablo Stanley](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/pablo-stanley/): Designer and serial maker behind Humaaans, Blush and Lummi, which Udemy acquired — products: Lummi, Blush, Humaaans, Open Peeps, Open Doodles
- [Jason Leow](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jason-leow/): Singapore solopreneur behind Jason's Plugins for Carrd, Lifelog, Lists Kit and Commit365 — revenue ~$12K/yr (Plugins for Carrd) — products: Jason's Plugins for Carrd, Lifelog, Lists Kit, Commit365
- [Jonathan Blow](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jonathan-blow/): Designer of Braid and The Witness, creator of the Jai language, head of Thekla — products: Braid, The Witness, Order of the Sinking Star, Jai, Indie Fund
- [Dmytro Krasun](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/dmytro-krasun/): Solo founder of ScreenshotOne, a screenshot API for developers and AI agents — revenue ~$36K MRR — products: ScreenshotOne, How Browsers Work, Open Graph Examples & Debugger, Puppeteer.Guide
- [Ruben Gamez](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ruben-gamez/): Bootstrapped founder of SignWell e-signatures and Bidsketch proposals — revenue Several million ARR (SignWell) — products: SignWell, Bidsketch
- [Jonathan Wilke](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jonathan-wilke/): German founder of supastarter, the SaaS starter kit for Next.js, Nuxt and TanStack — revenue $12K/mo — products: supastarter, supatools, Outbid, Maible
- [Andrew Wilkinson](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/andrew-wilkinson/): Co-founder of Tiny and MetaLab, buying and holding wonderful internet businesses — products: Tiny, MetaLab, Dribbble, Letterboxd
- [Luca Restagno](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/luca-restagno/): Software engineer turned solopreneur behind BlackTwist and Shipped.club — revenue $2.5K/mo (BlackTwist) — products: BlackTwist, Shipped.club, Latentcam, Hivoe, Inboxs
- [Yasser Elsaid](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/yasser-elsaid/): Solo founder who bootstrapped Chatbase from a student project to $10M ARR — revenue $864K MRR (verified) — products: Chatbase
- [Jeffrey Way](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jeffrey-way/): Founder of Laracasts, the bootstrapped video school for Laravel and PHP — products: Laracasts, Rosette, Laravel Mix
- [Florin Pop](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/florin-pop/): Developer turned indie hacker on a public $1M revenue journey — revenue $445K lifetime across projects — products: iCodeThis, Content Copilot, Indie Action
- [Sergiu Chiriac](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/sergiu-chiriac/): Software engineer turned indie hacker behind AI Directories, TransClipper and ColdConvert — revenue $7.7K in the last 30 days (AI Directories) — products: AI Directories, TransClipper, ColdConvert, BacklinkRise, ListMySaaS
- [Andrey Azimov](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/andrey-azimov/): Product Hunt Maker of the Year 2018 behind Sheet2Site, Web3 Jobs and SearchConsole.ai — products: SearchConsole.ai, Applicant AI, Web3 Jobs, Sheet2Site, Chart2Site
- [Nevo David](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/nevo-david/): Solo founder of Postiz, the open-source agentic social media scheduler — revenue $250K MRR (verified) — products: Postiz, agent-media
- [Peter Steinberger](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/peter-steinberger/): PSPDFKit founder turned creator of OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI agent — products: OpenClaw, PSPDFKit (Nutrient), CodexBar, summarize, RepoBar
- [Amy Hoy](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/amy-hoy/): Co-founder of Noko (Freckle) and Stacking the Bricks, creator of 30x500 and Sales Safari — products: Noko (formerly Freckle), 30x500, Stacking the Bricks
- [Martin Donadieu](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/martin-donadieu/): French solo maker of Capgo, open-source live updates for Capacitor apps — revenue $30K MRR — products: Capgo, Naturopia
- [Rob Fitzpatrick](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/rob-fitzpatrick/): Author of The Mom Test and Write Useful Books, building beta-reading software for authors — products: The Mom Test, Write Useful Books, The Workshop Survival Guide, Help This Book
- [Bram Kanstein](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/bram-kanstein/): Dutch no-code maker of Startup Stash who built and sold five curation products — products: Startup Stash, StartupWatching, Road to Scale, My Pitch Deck, Start with Magic
- [Justin Duke](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/justin-duke/): Founder of Buttondown, the bootstrapped newsletter platform he started at Stripe — revenue ~$15K MRR — products: Buttondown, Spoonbill
- [Jordi Bruin](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jordi-bruin/): Prolific Dutch indie Apple developer behind MacWhisper, Navi and Posture Pal — products: MacWhisper, Whisper Transcription, Navi, Posture Pal, Soosee
- [Dru Riley](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/dru-riley/): Founder of Trends.vc, the market research newsletter and Trends Pro community — products: Trends.vc, HeadsUp, Multi
- [Kent C. Dodds](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/kent-c-dodds/): JavaScript educator behind Epic React, Epic Web and Testing JavaScript — products: Epic React, Epic Web, Testing JavaScript, Epic AI, Testing Library
- [Dean McPherson](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/dean-mcpherson/): Co-founder of Paperform, a bootstrapped form builder grown to $3.5M+ ARR — revenue $3.5M ARR — products: Paperform
- [Meng To](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/meng-to/): Designer behind Design+Code, teaching designers to code, now building the AI builder Aura — products: Design+Code, Aura, Spring, Angle, ThreeUI
- [Sebastian Volkis](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/sebastian-volkis/): AI-first builder behind TrendFeed and CodeSpring, teaching non-coders to vibe code — revenue $29K/mo (TrendFeed + CodeSpring) — products: CodeSpring, TrendFeed, ChatIQ
- [Takuya Matsuyama](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/takuya-matsuyama/): Osaka-based solo developer of Inkdrop and the Dev as Life YouTube channel — revenue $10K+ MRR — products: Inkdrop
- [Surjith S M](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/surjith-s-m/): Kerala-based front-end maker of Web3Forms and Web3Templates (Astroship, Stablo) — revenue $75.7K all-time (Web3Templates) — products: Web3Forms, Web3Templates, Astroship, Stablo, Web3Inspiration
- [Rob Walling](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/rob-walling/): Drip founder, MicroConf and TinySeed co-founder, host of Startups for the Rest of Us — products: TinySeed, MicroConf, Drip
- [Anne-Laure Le Cunff](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/anne-laure-le-cunff/): Neuroscientist and founder of Ness Labs, author of Tiny Experiments — products: Ness Labs, Ness Labs Membership, Tiny Experiments
- [Danny Postma](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/danny-postma/): Dutch founder of HeadshotPro who sold AI copywriter Headlime for seven figures — products: HeadshotPro, Headlime, Landingfolio, Inspireframe
- [Harry Dry](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/harry-dry/): Copywriting teacher behind Marketing Examples and its 130K-reader newsletter — products: Marketing Examples, Copywriting Examples
- [Pierre de Wulf](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/pierre-de-wulf/): Co-founder of ScrapingBee, bootstrapped to $5M ARR and sold to Oxylabs — revenue ~$5M ARR (at exit) — products: ScrapingBee, PricingBot
- [Ervin Kalemi](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ervin-kalemi/): Albanian founder who bootstrapped Publer social media management to $3M ARR — revenue $3M ARR — products: Publer, Linkie, Kibo
- [Brian Shin](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/brian-shin/): Founder of Once, a disposable-camera event app, and owner of Xnapper — revenue $35K/mo — products: Once, Xnapper
- [Jeff Delaney](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jeff-delaney/): Creator and voice of Fireship, the fast-paced coding YouTube channel, merged with ui.dev — products: Fireship, Fireship PRO, Bytes
- [Sindre Sorhus](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/sindre-sorhus/): Full-time open-sourcer maintaining 1,000+ npm packages and dozens of indie Mac apps — products: Supercharge, Dato, Gifski, Velja, Plash
- [Jane Portman](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jane-portman/): Co-founder and CEO of Userlist, host of the UI Breakfast podcast — products: Userlist, The UI Audit, UI Breakfast
- [Matt Wolfe](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/matt-wolfe/): AI YouTuber and founder of Future Tools, the AI tool directory and newsletter — products: Future Tools, Future Tools Newsletter, The Next Wave
- [Dagobert Renouf](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/dagobert-renouf/): The startup meme king: co-founded Logology, runs LaunchDay, wore a 26-sponsor wedding suit — products: LaunchDay, Logology, How to Dominate Twitter/X
- [Monica Lent](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/monica-lent/): Technical co-founder of Affilimate and creator of Blogging for Devs — products: Affilimate, Blogging for Devs, BFD Trends, SEO for Devs
- [Yuyu](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/yuyu/): Singapore maker who sold OpenGraph.xyz, now runs a portfolio of directory sites — revenue S$5K/mo (portfolio) — products: OpenGraph.xyz, ClinicGeek, Dental Clinics Malaysia, Aesthetic Clinics Malaysia, PixDazzle
- [Tanner Linsley](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/tanner-linsley/): Creator of TanStack: Query, Table, Router, Start and other open source libraries — products: TanStack Query, TanStack Table, TanStack Router, TanStack Start, TanStack Form
- [Piotr Obidowski](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/piotr-obidowski/): Polish engineer-turned-indie hacker behind Visualizee.ai AI renders — revenue $8.2K MRR (Visualizee.ai, verified) — products: Visualizee.ai, VizTunr, Morga.ai, BrandPrix, ADesignHub
- [Frey Chu](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/frey-chu/): Directory website builder and SEO teacher behind Ship Your Directory — revenue $2K+/mo (first directory) — products: Ship Your Directory
- [Alexandre Grisey](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/alexandre-grisey/): French solo mobile developer running a portfolio of iOS apps and app-dev tools — revenue ~$2K/mo — products: AcceptMyApp, Mobiqo, CapWrapp, Selfie AI
- [Jonas Tyroller](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jonas-tyroller/): German indie dev and YouTuber behind Islanders, Will You Snail? and Thronefall — products: Thronefall, Will You Snail?, Islanders, Superflight
- [Aaron Francis](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/aaron-francis/): Developer-educator behind Mastering Postgres, High Performance SQLite and Solo — products: Database School, Solo, Screencasting.com, Try Hard Studios
- [Marco Arment](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/marco-arment/): Indie iOS developer of Overcast, previously Instapaper and Tumblr — products: Overcast, Unforgetful, Instapaper, FI Driving
- [Brennan Dunn](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/brennan-dunn/): Founder of RightMessage and Double Your Freelancing, author of This Is Personal — products: RightMessage, Double Your Freelancing, Planscope
- [Casey Liss](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/casey-liss/): Indie iOS developer of Callsheet and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast — products: Callsheet, MaskerAid, Peek-a-View, Vignette
- [Akshay Saini](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/akshay-saini/): Ex-Uber engineer who built NamasteDev, India's popular 'Namaste' coding courses — products: NamasteDev
- [Tom Benattar](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/tom-benattar/): Lisbon-based serial SaaS builder behind Podawaa and HumanInbox, with three exits — revenue $66K MRR (Podawaa, verified) — products: Podawaa, HumanInbox, PimpMySaaS, MailTracker
- [Marko Saric](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/marko-saric/): Co-founder of Plausible Analytics, writer on privacy and bootstrapped marketing — revenue $1M+ ARR — products: Plausible Analytics
- [Tracy Osborn](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/tracy-osborn/): WeddingLovely founder, Hello Web books author, GM at TinySeed and MicroConf — products: WeddingLovely, Hello Web App, Hello Web Design
- [Ian Landsman](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ian-landsman/): Bootstrapper behind HelpSpot since 2005, LaraJobs and the Mostly Technical podcast — products: HelpSpot, LaraJobs, Outro, Laracon / Laracon Online, Snappy
- [Olly Meakings](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/olly-meakings/): Co-founder of Senja, bootstrapping a testimonial tool in public to $1M ARR — revenue $1M ARR — products: Senja
- [Eric Barone](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/eric-barone/): Solo developer of Stardew Valley, now making Haunted Chocolatier — products: Stardew Valley, Haunted Chocolatier
- [Dan Mindru](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/dan/): Denmark-based serial maker of Shipixen, Page UI and the Morning Maker Show — products: Shipixen, Page UI, Page AI, Clobbr, Crontap
- [Ivan Kutskir](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ivan-kutskir/): Solo developer of Photopea, the free browser-based Photoshop alternative — revenue ~$200K/mo — products: Photopea
- [Steve Schoger](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/steve-schoger/): Designer behind Refactoring UI, Heroicons and Tailwind's look, now at Shopify — products: Refactoring UI, Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI), Heroicons, Hero Patterns
- [Csaba Kissi](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/csaba-kissi/): Slovakia-based 'Coding Dinosaur' who has shipped 200+ web projects — products: Featurenest, Download3000, Colorion, TablerIcons.com, SQLZap
- [Hitesh Choudhary](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/hitesh-choudhary/): Jaipur-based coding YouTuber behind Chai aur Code and ChaiCode cohorts; LCO founder — products: ChaiCode, LearnCodeOnline
- [Charlie Chapman](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/charlie-chapman/): Indie iOS dev of Dark Noise and host of the Launched podcast — products: Dark Noise, Overviewer
- [Uku Täht](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/uku-taht/): Creator of Plausible, the open source and privacy-first Google Analytics alternative — revenue $1M+ ARR — products: Plausible Analytics
- [Chris Coyier](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/chris-coyier/): Co-founder of CodePen, ShopTalk Show co-host, ran CSS-Tricks 2007-2022 — products: CodePen, CSS-Tricks
- [Mckay Wrigley](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/mckay-wrigley/): Builds and teaches AI coding; creator of Chatbot UI and founder of Takeoff — products: Takeoff / MagicLearn, Chatbot UI, Mckay's App Template, AI Code Translator
- [Kevin Sahin](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/kevin-sahin/): Co-founder of ScrapingBee and author of The Java Web Scraping Handbook — revenue $5M+ ARR (at exit) — products: ScrapingBee
- [Prajwal Tomar](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/prajwal-tomar/): AI-first builder running the IgnytLabs MVP agency, a community and an AI newsletter — products: IgnytLabs, AI MVP Builders, The AI Head Start
- [Shawn Wang (swyx)](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/shawn-wang/): Learn-in-public advocate, Coding Career Handbook author and Latent Space host — products: Latent Space, AI Engineer, smol.ai
- [Jack Ellis](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jack-ellis/): Software engineer and sole owner of Fathom, the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative — products: Fathom Analytics, Serverless Laravel, SingleStore for Laravel
- [Alexander Isora](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/alex-isora/): Solo founder who bootstrapped Unicorn Platform to $16K MRR and sold it for $800K — products: Unicorn Platform, saas.page, Paracast, UI Generator
- [Daniel Jalkut](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/daniel-jalkut/): Former Apple engineer running Red Sweater Software, maker of MarsEdit — products: MarsEdit, FastScripts, Black Ink, FlexTime, Clarion
- [Goon Nguyen](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/goon-nguyen/): Vietnamese builder behind UI UX Pro Max, AgentKit and GoClaw AI agent tools — products: UI UX Pro Max, AgentKit, GoClaw, Dewee, IndieBoosting
- [Jesse Hanley](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/jesse-hanley/): Australian founder of the Bento email platform, building from Fukuoka, Japan — products: Bento, PostShiba, Tatami, Can I Send This
- [Guilherme Rambo](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/guilherme-rambo/): Brazilian indie Mac and iOS developer behind AirBuddy and VirtualBuddy — products: AirBuddy, VirtualBuddy, WWDC for macOS, StatusBuddy
- [Ben Tossell](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/ben-tossell/): Non-technical builder who sold Makerpad to Zapier and now runs Ben's Bites — products: Makerpad, Ben's Bites
- [Marie Poulin](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/marie-poulin/): Creator of the Notion Mastery course and co-founder of Oki Doki — products: Notion Mastery, Oki Doki
- [Marcin Moskała](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/marcin-moskala/): Polish Kotlin educator, founder of Kt. Academy and author of Effective Kotlin — products: Kt. Academy, Advanced Compose
- [Atta Ur Rehman Shah](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/atta-ur-rehman-shah/): Pakistani solo founder of Fore Studio: Vitals and Flit Mac apps, StartupBase, Depost AI — revenue $13.3K all-time (Depost AI) — products: Vitals, Flit, StartupBase, AcquireBase, Depost AI
- [Christian Selig](https://indiemakerlist.com/p/christian-selig/): iOS indie developer behind Apollo for Reddit, Pixel Pals and Juno — products: Apollo for Reddit, Pixel Pals, Amplosion, Achoo, Juno

## Open data
- [All makers as JSON](https://indiemakerlist.com/api/makers.json)
- [Full text for LLMs](https://indiemakerlist.com/llms-full.txt)
- [RSS feed](https://indiemakerlist.com/feed.xml)