Founder of Buttondown, the bootstrapped newsletter platform he started at Stripe
Buttondown, Spoonbill~$15K MRR
stack --tool python · #18 of 80
Indie makers who build with Python (2026)
9 indie makers on IndieMakerList list Python in their stack — 5% of makers who share one — including Justin Duke, Tracy Osborn and Hitesh Choudhary. A general-purpose programming language popular for web backends, scripting and AI. Below: their products, self-reported revenue and the tools they pair with Python.
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28
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$15K/mo
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4
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Official site: python.org
Top indie makers using Python
9 makers, ranked by profile depth, audience and reported revenue.
WeddingLovely founder, Hello Web books author, GM at TinySeed and MicroConf
WeddingLovely, Hello Web App, Hello Web Design
Jaipur-based coding YouTuber behind Chai aur Code and ChaiCode cohorts; LCO founder
ChaiCode, LearnCodeOnline
Co-founder and CEO of Explosion, the company behind spaCy and Prodigy
spaCy, Prodigy, Ellf
Ex-CTO turned solopreneur behind the SaaS Pegasus Django boilerplate
SaaS Pegasus, Place Card Me, Scriv +2
Bootstrapper who built and sold TinyPilot, now writing Refactoring English
TinyPilot, Refactoring English, Zestful +3
Dallas developer shipping open-source AI agents, MCP servers and automation tools
Clawdbot Security Check, AI File Organizer Agent, MCP Server Starter +1
Full-stack developer running SendtoReader, which delivers newsletters to Kindle
SendtoReader
South African full-stack engineer building SwiftBooked and Muze Studios
SwiftBooked, Muze Studios
Products built by Python makers
A selection of the 28 products shipped by these makers.
Buttondown
buttondown.com
Simple, developer-friendly email newsletter platform for writers and publishers.
~$15K MRRby Justin Duke
Service that tracked changes people made to their social media profiles and bios.
by Justin Duke
Wedding vendor marketplace and online wedding planning app.
$62K in 2017by Tracy Osborn
Hello Web App
hellowebbooks.com
Beginner book and videos teaching how to build and launch a web app with Python and Django.
by Tracy Osborn
ChaiCode
chaicode.com
Coding education brand with live cohorts, recorded courses and events on web dev, GenAI and system design.
by Hitesh Choudhary
Bootstrapped coding education platform from Jaipur.
by Hitesh Choudhary
spaCy
spacy.io
Free, open source library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python.
by Ines Montani
Prodigy
prodi.gy
Scriptable, self-hosted annotation tool for creating training and evaluation data for machine learning models.
by Ines Montani
SaaS Pegasus
saaspegasus.com
Django boilerplate with auth, subscriptions, teams, AI and front-end tooling for launching SaaS apps quickly.
by Cory Zue
Place Card Me
placecardme.com
Web app for designing and printing place cards for weddings and events.
by Cory Zue
KVM-over-IP device for controlling computers remotely without installing software.
~$1M/yr before saleby Michael Lynch
Refactoring English
refactoringenglish.com
Book teaching software developers practical techniques for clearer writing.
by Michael Lynch
Revenue of indie makers using Python
Combined self-reported revenue: about $15K/mo across 1 maker. *Figures come from the makers' own posts and interviews, at different dates, and cover their whole business — not just Python projects.
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Justin DukeFounder of Buttondown, the bootstrapped newsletter platform he started at Stripe
~$15K MRRas of 2022-12
Tools commonly used with Python
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Python indie makers FAQ
Which indie makers build with Python?
Indie makers on IndieMakerList who list Python in their stack include Justin Duke, Tracy Osborn, Hitesh Choudhary, Ines Montani and Cory Zue. 9 makers use it in total.
How popular is Python with indie makers?
9 makers — 5% of the 170 profiles with a listed stack — use Python, ranking it #18 of 80 tools used by two or more makers.
What tools do indie makers use with Python?
The tools most often listed alongside Python are React (4 makers), Vue (3 makers), Django (3 makers) and Next.js (2 makers).
How much do indie makers using Python earn?
1 maker using Python have shared revenue figures, adding up to roughly $15K per month combined. The highest is Justin Duke (~$15K MRR). Figures are self-reported and from different dates.
What do indie makers build with Python?
Makers using Python mostly work in Creators & Writers (4), Educators & Course Creators (4) and SaaS Founders (4), and have shipped 28 listed products between them.
What is Python?
A general-purpose programming language popular for web backends, scripting and AI. Official site: https://www.python.org
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