Inide Need
Discover and submit products built by indie makers
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I’ve been building Cloutso, a self-serve platform where startups and brands can order creative campaigns like memes, GIFs, stickers, and branded assets.
Recently got my first real trial user, fixed mobile UX issues directly from their feedback, delivered the full campaign, and got a great testimonial. I’ve also shipped a startup program and referral credits since then.
Still early, but I’m trying to build around what real users actually ask for, not assumptions.
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HireSentinel (A Marshal Company)
- Basically building Ai protection for applicants / people on the job market.
Scans, and reports Fake "Ai remote jobs" that force you to do assessments and train their Ai without being aware of it.
The first tool in a long vision of protecting from Ai Exploits.
It's free on the Google Web Store if you wanted to try it out! (Can't post links yet)
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I recently launched Velora Code, an AI-powered coding workspace I'm building for developers and students.
The goal is to bring coding, AI assistance, live preview, project tools, and real-time team collaboration into one workspace. I'm also experimenting with features such as persistent project context and safer, narrowly scoped AI code changes.
It's live and usable, but I'm still very early and looking for developers who are willing to actually try it and give honest feedback — especially on what feels useful, confusing, or unnecessary.
I'd really appreciate any feedback from fellow builders here.
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FadeOut: an ephemeral event app. You create an event, invite your group, everyone shares photos and chats in one place, and when the event ends everything deletes itself. The metric I keep coming back to is our 50% repeat creator rate. Half our users have created more than one event. For a social app where the core mechanic is deletion, that tells me the loop is working in a way that download numbers alone never could.
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Simple submission process and clean presentation. Looking forward to seeing this grow.
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Submitted my side project today. Curious to see what kind of traffic it brings.
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Nice concept. Product discovery is definitely one of the hardest parts after launching.
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Just submitted my product. The process was surprisingly simple.
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The "discovering them is not always easy" line is the real problem, and it cuts both ways — as a maker I recently submitted to a few discovery sites and got a launch-day blip then silence, and as someone looking for tools I rarely go back to a directory after the first visit. The platforms that seem to work build a reason to return (a newsletter, a weekly "best of," alerts) rather than just being a submission form. Is that on your roadmap for IndieNeed, or are you focused on the submission side first?
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This is a really thoughtful way to frame it — I agree that a directory without a reason to return quickly becomes a one-time launch channel. IndieNeed is focused on making product submissions useful first, but the longer-term goal is definitely a repeat discovery loop: curated weekly picks, useful alerts, and a reason for makers and early adopters to come back. I’m still validating which format would create the most value rather than adding features for the sake of it. If you were using IndieNeed as a visitor, would a weekly “best new products” digest, personalized alerts, or something else bring you back?
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I like the simplicity of the idea. The real value of a product directory comes after there are enough submissions though, when you can actually help visitors filter through everything and find something relevant. Curious what your plan is for discovery once the database gets much larger
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That’s exactly the challenge I’m thinking about. The first priority is building a useful base of quality submissions, but once the database grows, a simple chronological directory won’t be enough. I’m planning to make discovery more structured through categories, tags, search, and curated collections around specific problems or use cases — for example, “tools for indie hackers,” “new AI products,” or “products useful for small teams.”
I’d also like to add recurring discovery formats, such as weekly featured products or personalized recommendations, so people have a reason to return rather than browse once and leave. I’m trying to avoid overbuilding before there is enough data to learn from, though. What would be most useful to you in a larger directory: better filters, use-case collections, recommendations, or community-curated lists?
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I just submitted. It's really straightforward and easy to use. I agree with teh first comment - what will make this different than other directory sites? I've submitted to quite a few. How do you envision the maker and hunter dynamics working?
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The directory itself is straightforward, but I’m curious what would make a maker return after submitting once rather than treating it as a one-time listing.
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Thanks for joining, Aryan! I’d love to hear your honest first impression. If you discover anything that would make Indie Need more useful for makers or visitors, please share it here—I’m actively improving the directory.
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I’ll take a look. The repeat-use question is probably the harder one to solve for a directory. I’ll share anything that stands out once I’ve explored it.
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Joining now to see if it's useful ^^
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Thanks for joining, Polgara! Hope you find it useful. I’d love to hear what you think after exploring the directory, especially anything you’d improve.
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Loved to use this site , have great features
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Thanks so much, Farooq! I’m happy you liked Indie Need. Which feature did you find most useful, and what should I improve next?
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