Best newsletters for indie makers and founders (2026)

Tiny Startups

tinystartups.com/newsletter

Weekly email about newly launched small startups, what they earn and deals worth grabbing.

Indie Hackers Newsletter

indiehackers.com/newsletter

Regular roundup of founder stories, revenue milestones and tactics from the Indie Hackers community.

Trends.vc

join.trends.vc

Short research reports on emerging markets and business ideas, written for founders hunting opportunities.

Starter Story

starterstory.com

Researched case studies and interviews with founders of real, profitable businesses.

The Bootstrapped Founder

thebootstrappedfounder.com

Weekly essays on building calm, sustainable, audience-first bootstrapped businesses.

Just Ship It

newsletter.marclou.com

Marc Lou's newsletter on finding startup ideas, launching fast and getting to profitability.

Bite-sized weekly issues spotlighting one or two indie developers, their backgrounds and their apps.

Weekly hand-picked selection of the best startup, tech and programming links from Hacker News.

Console.dev

console.dev

Free weekly newsletter reviewing the most interesting developer tools and beta releases.

Marketing Examples

marketingexamples.com

Practical, real-world marketing case studies on copywriting, SEO, referrals and more.

Justin Welsh

justinwelsh.me/essays

Saturday essays for solopreneurs on building a one-person business and audience.

Ben's Bites

bensbites.com

AI newsletter about building with agents and new tools worth trying.

TLDR

tldr.tech

Free daily digest of the most interesting stories in startups, tech and programming.

The Rundown AI

therundown.ai

Daily five-minute briefing on AI news and how to apply new tools at work.

Superhuman AI

superhuman.ai

Short daily newsletter on AI news, tools and tutorials for professionals.

Lenny's Newsletter

lennysnewsletter.com

Deeply researched advice on product, growth and careers for builders and founders.

Growth Unhinged

growthunhinged.com

Weekly breakdowns of pricing, marketing and go-to-market playbooks from fast-growing startups.

Bits about Money

bitsaboutmoney.com

Deep dives into how money moves through tech and finance, from payments to banking.

Dense Discovery

densediscovery.com

Weekly hand-picked links on design, tech, culture and useful tools.

Sidebar

sidebar.io

The five best design links, delivered every weekday.

Greg Isenberg

gregisenberg.com

Weekly email on internet communities, product ideas and startups built around community.

Exploding Topics

explodingtopics.com/newsletter

Newsletter surfacing fast-growing trends, markets and startups before they peak.

Failory

failory.com

Short lessons from startup failures and successes, with frameworks and tactics for founders.

Product Hunt Daily

producthunt.com/newsletters

Product Hunt's newsletter recapping top launches and tech news.

John Rush Newsletter

Behind-the-scenes on running 24+ bootstrapped products, SEO and directories.

by John Rush

Marc Lou newsletter

Newsletter with around 50K readers on ideas, launches and profitability.

by Marc Lou

levels.io blog

Long-running blog on startups, tech, travel and Europe, with a large email list.

by Pieter Levels

Julia Evans blog (jvns.ca)

Long-running blog explaining systems, networking, the terminal and more in plain language.

by Julia Evans

Tibo Maker newsletter

Weekly playbook with real numbers on growth, SEO, launches and personal branding, read by 85,000+ founders.

by Thibault Louis-Lucas (Tibo)

Bits about Money

Deep dives on how financial infrastructure actually works.

by Patrick McKenzie

Jakob Greenfeld's essays

Weekly essays on permissionless entrepreneurship, business ideas and distribution.

by Jakob Greenfeld

Opportunities

Researched business ideas and opportunities for indie entrepreneurs.

by Jakob Greenfeld

Swipe Files

Newsletter, community and courses on SaaS marketing.

by Corey Haines

The Koe Letter

Free twice-weekly letters on the mind, the internet and the future, read by about 196,000 subscribers.

by Dan Koe

Future Proof (premium guides)

Substack with premium guides on his content, marketing and AI systems, updated several times a month.

by Dan Koe

Tony Dinh's Newsletter

Monthly updates on what he built, learned and earned, read by 15,000+ subscribers.

by Tony Dinh

bradtraversy.dev weekly digest

Weekly digest of articles, devlog highlights and what shipped in the public lab.

by Brad Traversy

Lenny's Newsletter

Advice column on building product, driving growth and advancing your career.

by Lenny Rachitsky

Ian Nuttall newsletter

Posts on SEO, business and shipping products with AI, sent to 9,000+ subscribers.

by Ian Nuttall

AI Hero free email course

Seven-lesson email course on a repeatable agent workflow, followed by ongoing AI Hero updates.

by Matt Pocock

Starter Story Newsletter

Weekly newsletter with founder stories, business ideas and case studies.

by Pat Walls

Nathan Barry's Newsletter

Weekly essays on building creator businesses and running Kit.

by Nathan Barry

Ali Abdaal newsletter

Weekly email with ideas on productivity and building a life you love.

by Ali Abdaal

Derrick Reimer's essays and newsletter

Essays on shipping small, spotting market opportunities and choosing a stack, with an email list of 2,000+ readers.

by Derrick Reimer

The Saturday Essay

Weekly essay on solopreneurship and building a business on your own terms.

by Justin Welsh

John O'Nolan's blog

Posts on publishing, open source, Ghost's history and independent business.

by John O'Nolan

Justin Jackson's newsletter

Essays on entrepreneurship, marketing, indie SaaS and technology.

by Justin Jackson

Kevin Powell newsletter

Weekly email with updates and interesting CSS and front-end links.

by Kevin Powell

Karl Hughes newsletter

Writing on scaling and acquiring digital service businesses.

by Karl Hughes

12 Startups in 12 Months

Blog log of his 2018 challenge and the scoring sheet he used to pick ideas.

by Jon Yongfook

Superframeworks

Case studies of bootstrapped indie businesses and one new business idea each week.

by Ayush Chaturvedi

Listen Up Indie Hacker

Lessons from successful indie hackers on customer conversations, positioning and pricing.

by Ayush Chaturvedi

The Builder Briefing

Free weekly newsletter sent every Friday about building with AI.

by Brian Casel

The Pragmatic Engineer

Weekly deep dives and news analysis for software engineers and engineering managers.

by Gergely Orosz

Ilias Ism blog

Articles on SEO, distribution, AI search and building in public, plus a free SEO launch checklist.

by Ilias Ism

Greg's Letter

Newsletter with startup ideas and frameworks.

by Greg Isenberg

jonas.io resources and updates

Signup for updates, including notification when The Practical TypeScript Course launches.

by Jonas Schmedtmann

Thomas Sanlis blog

Essays on indie making, product strategy and self-hosting, with email subscription.

by Thomas Sanlis

Daniel Nguyen's newsletter

Monthly notes and revenue updates from bootstrapping BoltAI.

by Daniel Nguyen

Creator Science newsletter

Weekly Sunday email with experiments, insights and strategies for growing a creator business.

by Jay Clouse

The Bootstrapped Founder Newsletter

Weekly essays on calm, sustainable, build-in-public entrepreneurship.

by Arvid Kahl

Deep South Ventures essays

Essays on developing premium domains into small, durable web businesses.

by Peter Askew

The Product Compass (premium)

Full archive of 140+ AI PM playbooks, private Slack community and bundled courses.

by Paweł Huryn

Makerkit blog

Tutorials on building SaaS products with Next.js, Supabase, Drizzle and Prisma.

by Giancarlo Buomprisco

louis.blog

Short essays on building, creativity, focus and life in Goa.

by Louis Pereira

Jason's indie hacker journey

Revenue reviews, product retrospectives and indie lessons.

by Jason Leow

Extends Logic

Ruben's personal blog on growing bootstrapped SaaS.

by Ruben Gamez

Andrew's Newsletter

Monthly-ish stories on buying businesses, making mistakes and figuring it out.

by Andrew Wilkinson

Solopreneur on the road to freedom

Substack about building and selling micro-SaaS products as a solopreneur.

by Luca Restagno

Florin Pop Newsletter

Updates on his $1M journey and lessons from launches.

by Florin Pop

Hardcore Blog

His blog on quitting his job, launching apps and getting to profitability.

by Andrey Azimov

steipete.me newsletter

Twice-monthly posts on shipping with AI agents, open-source tools and building software.

by Peter Steinberger

Trends.vc

One new market or trend per week for 50,000+ founders.

by Dru Riley

Dean McPherson on Substack

Notes on growing a bootstrapped B2B SaaS.

by Dean McPherson

Dev as Life newsletter

Behind-the-scenes posts on building Inkdrop, productivity and indie development.

by Takuya Matsuyama

Maker Mind (Ness Labs newsletter)

Weekly science-based newsletter on productivity, creativity, mental health and learning.

by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Marketing Examples Newsletter

Free Monday newsletter with three short examples, two copywriting tips and one favourite tweet, read by about 130K people.

by Harry Dry

Bytes

Humorous JavaScript newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Friday.

by Jeff Delaney

Future Tools Newsletter

Curated AI news and tool picks twice a week.

by Matt Wolfe

Blogging for Devs

Newsletter and free 7-day email course on growing a developer blog.

by Monica Lent

Ship Your Directory newsletter

Free tips on building and growing directory websites.

by Frey Chu

Marko Saric's blog

Essays on bootstrapping, content marketing and privacy-first business.

by Marko Saric

The AI Head Start

Weekly AI building playbooks and tool picks in plain language.

by Prajwal Tomar

AINews by smol.ai

Daily AI-generated digest of the top AI discussions.

by Shawn Wang (swyx)

Bitsplitting

Daniel Jalkut's blog on software, Apple and indie business.

by Daniel Jalkut

FA&FO Specialist

English newsletter on AI engineering, products and experiments.

by Goon Nguyen

My Solo Playbook

Vietnamese newsletter on building products solo, with practical lessons.

by Goon Nguyen

Jesse Hanley's newsletter

Notes on building software, marketing and growing tiny internet businesses.

by Jesse Hanley

rambo.codes

Blog about reverse engineering, Apple internals and indie app development.

by Guilherme Rambo

Ben's Bites

Daily digest of the most important AI news, tools and workflows for builders.

by Ben Tossell

Marie Poulin newsletter

Newsletter on getting organized, improving processes and finding flow in work.

by Marie Poulin

attacomsian.com

500+ programming tutorials and essays on building and launching indie products.

by Atta Ur Rehman Shah

Filipe Deschamps Newsletter

Daily tech news summarized for quick reading, in Portuguese.

by Filipe Deschamps

Kevin Yun on Substack

Essays on bootstrapping GrowSurf and referral growth.

by Kevin Yun

Indie Hackers Newsletter

Curated weekly roundup of the top interviews, posts and articles voted up by the community.

by Courtland Allen

Design Hacks

Free newsletter of practical UI design tips with 60,000+ readers.

by Erik Kennedy

Learn to Vibe Code

Tutorials and examples for building apps with AI.

by Riley Brown

Laura Roeder's blog

Stories, advice and shortcuts from the founder of MeetEdgar and Paperbell.

by Laura Roeder

Josh W. Comeau's blog and newsletter

Free, deeply interactive articles on CSS, React and animation.

by Josh W. Comeau

Cory Zue's blog and retrospectives

Monthly and yearly reports on running multiple solo businesses.

by Cory Zue

Side Project MVP

Tips and tricks from someone who has built 120+ side projects.

by Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)

Lee Launches

Personal newsletter sharing lessons learned from launching small projects.

by Lee Hills

More Making

Newsletter for indie makers about creating more online and consuming less.

by Mark Bowley

Katt & The Shiny Objects

Substack newsletter documenting Katt's solopreneur learnings, wins and failures.

by Katt Risen

Rosieland

Essays, research, tools and a glossary for people building communities.

by Rosie Sherry

Indie and Profitable

Behind-the-scenes newsletter on building and living off indie software businesses.

by Farez Rahman

Woody Hayday's blog and newsletter

Small bets, AI automation experiments and life philosophy.

by Woody Hayday

Lapcat Software blog

Blog on Mac and iOS bugs, privacy, security and App Store policy.

by Jeff Johnson

rameerez blog

Long-form posts on Rails, self-hosting, Kamal and indie hacking.

by rameerez

inessential

Brent Simmons's long-running blog about software development, RSS and the open web.

by Brent Simmons

Avinash Vagh on Substack

Notes on indie hacking, launches, SEO and go-to-market experiments.

by Avinash Vagh

Andrew Timberlake's blog

Short practical posts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView development.

by Andrew Timberlake

Hack the Algo

Substack on building organic growth as AI changes search.

by Ivan Palii

Business & Marketing with Nika

Case-study driven newsletter on marketing and business growth techniques.

by Nika Kotláriková

Centroid of Outliers

Personal Substack with Hamed's thoughts, notes and ideas.

by Hamed Mohammadpour

Pieter Builder

Bite-sized tips on tools and coding.

by Pieter