IndieHackers Scraper

Extract IndieHackers product data, founder stories, and revenue milestones without an API key. Perfect for market research, VC deal sourcing, and SaaS competitive analysis.

What it does

Pulls product listings from indiehackers.com — including publicly disclosed monthly revenue, founder handles, taglines, descriptions, verticals, revenue models, funding source, and tags — directly from the same search index that powers the site. No login, no proxy, no rate-limit headaches.

Use cases

• VCs & accelerators — source bootstrapped SaaS deals with real revenue traction
• Market research — map every newsletter, AI tool, or B2B SaaS founder publishing on IH
• Competitive analysis — track competitors' monthly revenue and update cadence
• Lead lists — build outreach lists of founders in a specific vertical (AI, fintech, devtools, etc.)
• Trend spotting — find new products in any niche, sorted by newest, revenue, or followers

Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Search term (e.g. "AI", "newsletter"). Empty = all products.
maxItems	integer	Max products to return. Default 100, max 10000.
minRevenue	integer	Only return products with at least this monthly revenue (USD). Default 0.
sortBy	string	newest, revenue, or followers. Default newest.

Example input

{
  "query": "AI",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "minRevenue": 1000,
  "sortBy": "revenue"
}

Output

Each item contains:

{
  "productId": "example-saas",
  "name": "Example SaaS",
  "tagline": "Short tagline",
  "description": "Longer founder description...",
  "url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/product/example-saas",
  "websiteUrl": "https://example.com",
  "avatarUrl": "https://...",
  "monthlyRevenueUSD": 4200,
  "numFollowers": 312,
  "twitterHandle": "examplesaas",
  "startDate": "2023-08",
  "createdAt": "2023-08-12T14:22:01.000Z",
  "publishedAt": "2023-08-12T14:22:01.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-04T09:11:43.000Z",
  "founderUserIds": ["AbCdEf123..."],
  "verticals": ["ai", "saas", "b2b"],
  "revenueModels": ["subscription"],
  "funding": ["bootstrapped"],
  "platforms": ["web"],
  "allTags": [...],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you only pay for products successfully scraped. No fixed cost, no compute charges.

Notes

• Data is sourced from indiehackers.com's public search index.
• Revenue is whatever founders have voluntarily disclosed — many leave it blank.
• Respect the data: don't spam founders or scrape for malicious purposes.