385 makers · 1198 products · 50 countries

All indie makers

The complete directory of 385 indie makers and bootstrapped founders in 2026. Each profile covers what they build, where they are based, their audience and — where public — their revenue. Search by name or product, or filter by category and country.

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385 makers

John Rush
@johnrush
Running a bootstrapped empire of 24+ SaaS products and directories
$3M/yr118K followers
Marc Lou
@marclou · Indonesia
French solopreneur from Bali behind TrustMRR, DataFast, ShipFast and 30+ startups
$98K/mo407K followers
Pieter Levels
@levelsio · Portugal
Solo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book
~$219K/mo across products971K followers
Julia Evans
@b0rk · Canada
Montreal developer behind Wizard Zines, illustrated guides to computing fundamentals
$101,558 in 2018192K followers
Adam Wathan
@adamwathan · Canada
Creator of Tailwind CSS who built a multi-million-dollar business on open source
Mid-seven figures/yr302K followers
Kitze
@thekitze
Serial maker of Sizzy, Benji and Tinkerer Club who teaches devs to ship
$223K in 30 days104K followers
Thibault Louis-Lucas (Tibo)
@tibo_maker · France
Built and sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio; now runs a $1M/month AI portfolio led by Revid
~$1M/mo across products211K followers
Patrick McKenzie
@patio11 · United States
patio11: Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Stripe Atlas and Bits about Money
~$275K/yr sales, ~$200K pro…201K followers
Jakob Greenfeld
@JakobGreenfeld · Denmark
Physicist turned permissionless entrepreneur, co-founder of Sales.co
$90K/mo23K followers
Corey Haines
@coreyhainesco
SaaS marketer behind Swipe Files, Conversion Factory and the top AI marketing skills repo
$1M ARR33K followers
Thomas Frank
@TomFrankly · United States
Productivity YouTuber behind Ultimate Brain, Notion tutorials and the Flylighter clipper
$1M in Notion template sales145K followers
Dan Koe
@thedankoe
One-person business writer behind The Art of Focus and co-founder of the Eden content app
$1M-$1.5M/yr1M followers
Tony Dinh
@tdinh_me
Vietnamese indie hacker behind TypingMind, DevUtils, and exits Black Magic and Xnapper
$142K/mo205K followers
Brad Traversy
@traversymedia · United States
Web dev educator behind Traversy Media, plus a public lab of indie dev tools
361K followers
Lenny Rachitsky
@lennysan · United States
Former Airbnb product lead behind Lenny's Newsletter and Lenny's Podcast
$1M+/yr449K followers
Jack Friks
@jackfriks · Canada
Self-taught Canadian solo builder of Post Bridge and a string of consumer apps
$48.9K MRR176K followers
Marc Köhlbrugge
@marckohlbrugge · Portugal
Serial maker behind BetaList, WIP and Startup Jobs, shipping online for 20+ years
89K followers
Ian Nuttall
@iannuttall
SEO veteran and serial internet entrepreneur shipping AI-coded SEO tools
$100K ARR82K followers
Matt Pocock
@mattpocockuk · United Kingdom
TypeScript and AI engineering educator behind Total TypeScript and AI Hero
368K followers
Pat Walls
@thepatwalls · United States
Founder of Starter Story, the founder case-study brand acquired by HubSpot in 2026
$1M/yr143K followers
Nathan Barry
@nathanbarry · United States
Founder of Kit (ConvertKit), bootstrapped from a failing side project to $1M+ MRR
$1.19M MRR152K followers
Damon Chen
@damonchen · United States
Ex-Cisco engineer who built Testimonial.to and grew acquired PDF.ai into a top AI PDF tool
$1.3M ARR99K followers
Sahil Lavingia
@shl · United States
Founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur
$17.8M/yr394K followers
Tyler Tringas
@tylertringas · United States
Coined micro-SaaS, sold Storemapper, then founded Calm Company Fund for bootstrappers
~$40K MRR31K followers
Caleb Porzio
@calebporzio · United States
Creator of Livewire, Alpine.js and Flux UI, funded by sponsors and component sales
$112K/yr from GitHub Sponso…53K followers
Mike Taber
@SingleFounder · United States
MicroConf co-founder, Bluetick founder and author of The Single Founder Handbook
Five-figure MRR6K followers
Easlo
@heyeaslo · Singapore
Singapore-based Notion template creator behind Second Brain and SyncTasks
$239K in 2022375K followers
Adam Lyttle
@adamlyttleapps · Australia
Australian indie dev running a portfolio of 30+ simple iOS apps
$70K/mo59K followers
Daniel Vassallo
@dvassallo · United States
Ex-Amazon engineer who popularized the small bets portfolio approach
$210K profit in 9 months205K followers
Ali Abdaal
@AliAbdaal · United Kingdom
Doctor-turned-YouTuber, author of Feel-Good Productivity and Part-Time YouTuber Academy
$4M+ in 2022356K followers
Derrick Reimer
@derrickreimer
Founder of SavvyCal; co-founded Drip, which sold to Leadpages
$20K MRR11K followers
Justin Welsh
@thejustinwelsh · United States
Solopreneur who passed $10M in revenue with a one-person business
$10M+ total revenue592K followers
Guillaume Moubeche
@GuillaumeMbh · France
Co-founder of lemlist, bootstrapped from $1K to tens of millions in ARR
~$40M ARR25K followers
John O'Nolan
@JohnONolan
Founder and CEO of Ghost, the open source, non-profit publishing platform
Ghost: ~$11.1M ARR40K followers
Wes Bos
@wesbos · Canada
Canadian full-stack JavaScript teacher behind JavaScript30 and the Syntax podcast
441K followers
Maximilian Schwarzmüller
@maxedapps · Germany
Co-founder of Academind, bestselling coding instructor with 3.5M+ students
69K followers
Derek Sivers
@sivers · New Zealand
Musician who accidentally built CD Baby, sold it for $22M, and writes books on how to live
286K followers
Justin Jackson
@mijustin · Canada
Co-founder and CEO of Transistor.fm, the bootstrapped 'calm company' for podcast hosting
38K followers
Kevin Powell
@KevinJPowell · Canada
Canadian CSS educator with 1,000+ YouTube videos and The Cascade course platform
55K followers
Fabrizio Rinaldi
@linuz90 · Portugal
Designer and co-founder of Typefully; previously built and sold Mailbrew
Typefully: ~$2M ARR22K followers
Karl Hughes
@KarlLHughes · United States
Former CTO who built Draft.dev to $2.5M and now acquires podcast agencies
$2.5M/yr4K followers
Jon Yongfook
@yongfook · Singapore
Solo founder who bootstrapped Bannerbear, an image and video automation API, to $81K MRR
$81K MRR173K followers
Ayush Chaturvedi
@ayushtweetshere
Co-founder of Elephas and Voibe, runs Superframeworks and Indie Masterminds
$150K/yr13K followers
Pat Flynn
@PatFlynn · United States
Founder of Smart Passive Income, author of Will It Fly? and Superfans, Pokémon YouTuber
171K followers
Brett Williams
@BrettFromDJ · United States
Solo designer running Designjoy, a $1M+/yr one-person design subscription
$100K MRR171K followers
Josh Pigford
@Shpigford
Serial dabbler who built and sold Baremetrics for $4M, now shipping AI products
76K followers
Jim Raptis
@d__raptis · Greece
Greek design engineer running bootstrapped tools MagicPattern, BrandBird and SuperMotion
~$6.5K MRR across three pro…32K followers
Brian Casel
@CasJam · United States
Serial bootstrapper behind Audience Ops, Clarityflow and Builder Methods
12K followers
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz · Netherlands
Ex-Uber engineering manager who writes The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter
360K followers
Ilias Ism
@illyism
SEO-first serial maker behind GenPPT, LinkDR, AI SEO Tracker and MagicSpace
$8.1K MRR30K followers
Greg Isenberg
@gregisenberg
CEO of Late Checkout, host of The Startup Ideas Podcast, creator of Ideabrowser
727K followers
Jonas Schmedtmann
@jonasschmedtman · Portugal
Top-rated Udemy instructor teaching JavaScript, React, Node.js and CSS to 2M+ students
73K followers
Simon Høiberg
@SimonHoiberg · Switzerland
Ex-LEGO engineer building a bootstrapped SaaS portfolio: FeedHive, Aidbase, LinkDrip
$400K ARR164K followers
Thomas Sanlis
@T_Zahil · France
French developer-designer behind the Uneed launch platform and Writizzy
$134K in 202524K followers
Scott Tolinski
@stolinski · United States
Syntax podcast co-host and creator of Level Up Tutorials
64K followers
Daniel Nguyen
@daniel_nguyenx · Vietnam
Vietnamese solopreneur bootstrapping BoltAI, a native AI workspace for Mac
$33.5K/mo77K followers
Derek Yu
@mossmouth · United States
Indie game designer behind Spelunky, Spelunky 2 and UFO 50, founder of Mossmouth
59K followers
Eduardo Borges
@duborges · Brazil
Brazil's self-styled first digital nomad, serial AI app builder and Dolafy co-founder
19K followers
Lynne Tye
@lynnetye · United States
Solo founder of Key Values, the job board matching engineers with values-aligned teams
~$300K–350K/yr5K followers
Wilson Wilson
@euboid · Nigeria
Co-founded Senja to $800K ARR; now building Ferndesk, self-updating AI help docs
$5K MRR40K followers

A–Z index of all indie makers

Every one of the 385 maker profiles, alphabetically.

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Indie makers FAQ

How many indie makers are listed on IndieMakerList?

IndieMakerList currently lists 385 indie makers with 1198 products across 50 countries and 24 categories.

Who are the most followed indie makers in 2026?

By follower count, the most followed indie makers in the directory are Markus Persson, Toby Fox, Eric Barone, Dan Koe and Pieter Levels.

Which indie makers earn the most revenue?

Based on publicly reported figures, the top earners include Guillaume Moubeche (~$40M ARR (lempire)), Sahil Lavingia ($17.8M/yr (Gumroad, 2025)), Nathan Barry ($1.19M MRR (ConvertKit)), Thibault Louis-Lucas (Tibo) (~$1M/mo across products) and John O'Nolan (Ghost: ~$11.1M ARR). See the full revenue leaderboard for more.

Which country has the most indie makers?

United States leads with 80 listed makers, followed by United Kingdom (21), Canada (17) and France (16).

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