Inide Need
Discover and submit products built by indie makers
Today I was browsing new IndieNeed launches and found everything from wellness tools to tiny PDF utilities.
That’s exactly what I want more of:
useful products people probably haven’t discovered yet.
If you’ve built something real, submit it to IndieNeed:
Then comment your product name below.
I’ll personally check the new submissions.
I built IndieNeed to help good indie products get discovered beyond launch day.
Most founders don’t need another place to collect upvotes.
They need:
→ real visitors
→ useful feedback
→ ongoing discovery
→ more chances to be found
If you’re building a SaaS, AI tool, app, dev tool, or side project, submit it to IndieNeed:
I’m actively reviewing new submissions and featuring interesting products.
If you’re building a:
• SaaS
• AI tool
• developer tool
• app
• side project
drop your product below with:
→ link
→ what it does in one sentence
→ who it’s for
I’ll check every submission and pick the most interesting ones to feature.
No follower count needed.
No revenue needed.
Early-stage products are welcome.
You can also submit directly at indieneed.com
What are you building?
Have you built a startup, SaaS, AI tool, app, or website?
Don’t let it sit unnoticed.
Submit your product to Indie Need and get it listed in a growing directory of products built by independent founders.
It’s free to submit, takes just a few minutes, and gives your product another place to be discovered by founders, makers, and early adopters.
If you’ve already built something, why not put it out there?
https://www.indieneed.com/submit
Submit your startup to Indie Need.
A lot of indie products don’t disappear because they’re bad. They disappear because, after launch day, very few people know they exist.
I’m building IndieNeed as a simple place for indie makers to showcase websites, SaaS products, apps, tools, and side projects they’ve built.
If you’ve launched something recently and it has a live URL, I’d genuinely like to see it.
You can submit it here:
https://www.indieneed.com/submit
When you submit, share what you built, who it is for, and what kind of feedback or users you’re looking for. You can also share the link in the comments so other Indie Hackers can discover it.
I’m especially interested in early-stage products that are already usable but haven’t had much exposure yet.
What did you build recently?
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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.
You built it. Now let people find it.
IndieNeed is a place for indie makers to showcase websites, SaaS, apps, tools, and side projects.
Just launched something? Submit it to IndieNeed and get discovered.
submit - https://www.indieneed.com/submit
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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.
There are many useful products being built by indie hackers, but discovering them is not always easy.
That’s why I’m building Inide Need—a place where founders can submit their products and get discovered by people looking for new tools, services, and solutions.
If you have launched a product, even if it is still small or early-stage, you can submit it here:
https://www.indieneed.com/submit
Submitting your product can help you get more visibility, reach potential users, and become part of a growing collection of indie products.
If you are building something, share it below or submit it to Inide Need. I would love to discover what the Indie Hackers community is working on.
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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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Yesterday, I asked indie makers to submit their products to Indie Need, and the feedback raised an important question: What will make Indie Need different from the many other product directories already available?
I don’t want Indie Need to become just another place where founders submit a link once and never return.
My current idea is to make it more useful in three ways:
Help makers get discovered by people actively looking for useful products.
Make browsing easier through clear categories and simple product pages.
Give makers a reason to return through updates, new launches, feedback, and community discovery.
I’m still deciding what the most valuable repeat-use feature should be. Would you return for product feedback, launch visibility, founder networking, curated collections, analytics, or something else?
I’d really appreciate honest opinions. What would make a product directory genuinely useful to you—not just on submission day, but weeks or months later?
You can explore Indie Need here: https://www.indieneed.com/
I built Indie Need as a free directory for independent makers to share websites, SaaS products, apps, tools, and side projects.
The goal is simple: make it easier for people to discover what indie builders are creating. I’m currently improving the directory and would appreciate honest feedback from the Indie Hackers community.
If you have a live product, you can view the directory and submit it here: https://indieneed.com/submit
What would make a product directory genuinely useful to you—better categories, launch visibility, feedback, or something else?
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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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