Solo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book
Photo AI, Vibe Jam, Interior AI +5~$219K/mo across products
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Indie makers who build with SQLite (2026)
6 indie makers on IndieMakerList list SQLite in their stack — 4% of makers who share one — including Pieter Levels, Maximilian Schwarzmüller and Aaron Francis. A small, self-contained, serverless SQL database engine stored in a single file. Below: their products, self-reported revenue and the tools they pair with SQLite.
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28
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$219K/mo
combined revenue*
3
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Official site: sqlite.org
Top indie makers using SQLite
6 makers, ranked by profile depth, audience and reported revenue.
Co-founder of Academind, bestselling coding instructor with 3.5M+ students
Academind, AI Enhanced Dev, Business Headshots AI
Developer-educator behind Mastering Postgres, High Performance SQLite and Solo
Database School, Solo, Screencasting.com +1
Bootstrapper who built and sold TinyPilot, now writing Refactoring English
TinyPilot, Refactoring English, Zestful +3
Founder of Flying Meat, two-decade indie Mac maker of Acorn and Retrobatch
Acorn, Retrobatch, VoodooPad +1
Solo creator of PocketBase, the open source backend in a single file
PocketBase, Presentator, Hide Ratings Extension
Products built by SQLite makers
A selection of the 28 products shipped by these makers.
Photo AI
photoai.com
AI photo generator that trains a model on your selfies to create realistic photos and videos of you.
$86K/moby Pieter Levels
Vibe Jam
vibejam.com
Game jam for games built mostly with AI coding tools.
$44K/moby Pieter Levels
Academind
academind.com
Coding and AI course platform with single-course licenses and an all-access membership.
by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
AI Enhanced Dev
aienhanced.dev
Two-week cohort for building real web apps with AI agents while keeping code quality high.
by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Database School
databaseschool.com
Home of Aaron and Steve's database video courses, including Mastering Postgres and High Performance SQLite.
by Aaron Francis
Solo
soloterm.com
Desktop app that runs and manages every dev process for your projects, with MCP integration for AI agents.
by Aaron Francis
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
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Acorn
flyingmeat.com
Image editor for the Mac, designed to be powerful yet approachable and affordable.
by Gus Mueller
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Retrobatch
flyingmeat.com
Node-based batch image processing app for macOS.
by Gus Mueller
PocketBase
pocketbase.io
Open source realtime backend (database, auth, files, admin UI) shipped as a single Go binary.
by Gani Georgiev
Presentator
presentator.io
Free, open source design presentation and feedback platform.
by Gani Georgiev
Revenue of indie makers using SQLite
Combined self-reported revenue: about $219K/mo across 1 maker. *Figures come from the makers' own posts and interviews, at different dates, and cover their whole business — not just SQLite projects.
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Pieter LevelsSolo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book
~$219K/mo across productsas of 2026
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SQLite indie makers FAQ
Which indie makers build with SQLite?
Indie makers on IndieMakerList who list SQLite in their stack include Pieter Levels, Maximilian Schwarzmüller, Aaron Francis, Michael Lynch and Gus Mueller. 6 makers use it in total.
How popular is SQLite with indie makers?
6 makers — 4% of the 170 profiles with a listed stack — use SQLite, ranking it #25 of 80 tools used by two or more makers.
What tools do indie makers use with SQLite?
The tools most often listed alongside SQLite are JavaScript (2 makers), PHP (2 makers), Docker (2 makers) and Go (2 makers).
How much do indie makers using SQLite earn?
1 maker using SQLite have shared revenue figures, adding up to roughly $219K per month combined. The highest is Pieter Levels (~$219K/mo across products). Figures are self-reported and from different dates.
What do indie makers build with SQLite?
Makers using SQLite mostly work in Creators & Writers (3), Educators & Course Creators (3) and Open Source Makers (3), and have shipped 28 listed products between them.
What is SQLite?
A small, self-contained, serverless SQL database engine stored in a single file. Official site: https://www.sqlite.org
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