Indie Hackers Products Scraper

💰 $5.00 / 1 000 results  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

The devil's in the data. 😈

Indie Hackers is where bootstrapped founders publish their product and, often, their real self-reported monthly revenue. This Actor turns that directory into clean rows — name, tagline, logo, MRR, category — so you can screen the bootstrapped SaaS market without opening a single tab.

🎯 What this scrapes

The Indie Hackers /products directory, filtered by zero or more categories and sorted the way you choose (recently updated, recently added, highest revenue, or lowest revenue). Each row is one product card: its slug, name, tagline, logo, and self-reported monthly revenue (when the founder chose to publish one).

🔥 Features

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints (curl-cffi impersonation across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari profiles) so every request looks like a real browser, not a script.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 503 and honour Retry-After — up to 5 attempts per category page.
• 🧱 We isolate faults, not runs. A malformed card is skipped and logged; a category that fails to load is skipped too. Your run only fails outright when every requested category is unreachable.
• 🧊 Dedup you can trust. A product that shows up under two categories you requested is emitted once, attributed to whichever category you listed first.
• 💰 You pay only for results that land. No data → no charge beyond the small warm-up fee.

💡 Use cases

• SaaS founders scouting competitor pricing and positioning inside a specific category before they launch.
• Acquirers and brokers screening bootstrapped products by self-reported MRR for acquisition leads.
• Investors and researchers tracking how the indie/bootstrapped SaaS market is trending category by category.
• Growth marketers building a target list of tools in a niche to pitch affiliate or integration partnerships.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Pick one or more categories (leave empty for the unfiltered directory) and a sorting order — highest-revenue surfaces the biggest self-reported earners first.
2. Set maxProducts to cap how many rows you want across all requested categories, after dedup.
3. Run it, then export to JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull the dataset straight from the Apify API.
4. Re-run on a schedule to track how self-reported revenue for a category moves over time.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
categories	array<string>	no	["ai", "productivity"]	Zero or more of the 57 valid Indie Hackers category slugs. Empty array = the unfiltered directory.
sorting	string	no	"highest-revenue"	One of recently-updated, recently-added, highest-revenue, lowest-revenue.
maxProducts	integer	no	40	Hard cap on total rows across all requested categories, after dedup (1-500).
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Apify Proxy configuration. No anti-bot surface confirmed on this target, so proxy is optional.

Example input

{
  "categories": ["ai", "productivity"],
  "sorting": "highest-revenue",
  "maxProducts": 10
}

📤 Output

One row per product matching your filters.

Field	Type	Notes
product_slug	string	Slug parsed from the product's /product/<slug> URL.
product_url	string	Full absolute URL to the product's Indie Hackers page.
name	string	Product display name.
tagline	string | null	Product tagline, if present.
logo_url	string | null	Product logo/avatar image URL.
monthly_revenue_usd	integer | null	Self-reported monthly revenue in USD. null when the product did not self-report — never faked as 0.
revenue_period	string | null	Revenue period label (e.g. "month"). null when revenue is absent.
matched_category	string | null	First category slug this product was discovered under this run.
matched_sorting	string	The sorting value used for the request that found this row.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp this row was scraped.

Example output

{
  "product_slug": "jotlee",
  "product_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/product/jotlee",
  "name": "Jotlee",
  "tagline": "Everything job seekers need in one AI-powered platform",
  "logo_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/indie-hackers.appspot.com/product-avatars/jotlee/128x128_jotlee.webp",
  "monthly_revenue_usd": 0,
  "revenue_period": "month",
  "matched_category": "ai",
  "matched_sorting": "highest-revenue",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.0048	Per product row written to the dataset

Example: 1 000 products = $5.00 per run ($0.20 start + 1000 x $0.0048). No subscription, no minimum, no card required to try it.

🚧 Limitations

• Revenue is self-reported and unvalidated. Indie Hackers never audits the numbers founders publish — treat monthly_revenue_usd as a signal of what a founder is willing to claim, not audited financials.
• ~17-18 cards per category page, no deep pagination in v1. The site's own "Load More" pagination runs through an undocumented client-side index that could change without notice; iterating multiple categories is how you get breadth today. Deeper pagination is a candidate for a future version.
• maxProducts counts post-dedup rows. If two requested categories share a product, it only counts once against your cap.
• No product detail-page enrichment. This Actor scrapes the directory card only (name, tagline, logo, revenue) — founder story and milestone data from the individual product page are out of scope for v1.

❓ FAQ

Is the revenue data accurate? It's exactly what the founder chose to publish on their own product page — self-reported, not verified by Indie Hackers or by us. Use it as a directional signal, not a financial statement.

Can I filter by more than one category in a single run? Yes. Pass an array to categories; each one is fetched as its own request, and products that appear under more than one requested category are only counted once.

What happens if a category has no self-reported revenue for some products? Those rows come back with monthly_revenue_usd and revenue_period both null — never a fabricated 0.

Do I need to configure a proxy? No. We didn't find any anti-bot surface on this target during testing, so proxyConfiguration defaults to a direct connection. You can still turn on Apify Proxy if you want the extra layer.

🙋 Your feedback

Found a category slug that changed, a card layout we mis-parse, or a feature you wish this Actor had? Open an issue on the Actor's Apify Store page or message DevilScrapes directly — we ship fixes fast.