# Indie Hackers Products Tracker — Maker Discovery API (`nexgendata/indie-hackers-products-tracker`) Actor

Track Indie Hackers products for maker and startup discovery. Clean JSON for PR, media-monitoring teams and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/indie-hackers-products-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 indie hackers products

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Indie Hackers Products Tracker

Track Indie Hackers products for maker and startup discovery. Built for PR, comms, media-monitoring teams and AI agents.

### ⏰ Run this as a maker watch (recommended)

Every IP registry actor is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new filings as they land:

```json
{
  "query": "company or keyword",
  "limit": 100
}
```

Weekly cron (`0 8 * * 1`) turns this into an always-on maker watch.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per product (full output has 34 fields):

- `approved_at` — Approved at
- `bumped_at` — Bumped at
- `categories` — Categories
- `category` — Category
- `commitment` — Commitment
- `description` — Description
- `employees_band` — Employees band
- `external_website` — External website
- `founded_date` — Founded date
- `founder_count` — Founder count

**Pricing:** $0.05 per product (Pay-Per-Event) — about **20 products per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run Indie Hackers maker-product discovery on demand.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
List new Indie Hackers products in a category with revenue signals.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### 🔗 Related news & media actors

**Full media-monitoring stack — monitor every major wire:** [PR Newswire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/pr-newswire-press-releases-scraper), [Business Wire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/business-wire-press-releases-scraper), [GlobeNewswire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/globenewswire-press-releases-scraper), [PRWeb](https://apify.com/nexgendata/pr-web-press-releases-scraper), [EIN Presswire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/ein-presswire-press-releases-scraper), [Brand Mention Monitor](https://apify.com/nexgendata/brand-mention-monitor)

**News agent front door:** [News MCP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/news-mcp-server)

***

*Data from public news, press-wire and media sources.*

# Actor input Schema

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of Indie Hackers product records to return (1–5000). Each product is one dataset row. The full Indie Hackers product directory currently lists 12,000+ products. Use 10 for a smoke test, 100 for a sector slice, 1000+ for a full mining sweep.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

How to order the result set. 'top' = bumped/popular (default Indie Hackers product feed order — what shows on indiehackers.com/products). 'revenue' = highest disclosed monthly revenue first (best for VC sourcing — surfaces six- and seven-figure MRR indie SaaS). 'recent' = newest first (best for trend-spotting fresh launches and ProductHunt-adjacent discovery).

## `min_revenue` (type: `integer`):

Filter to only products with publicly disclosed monthly revenue ≥ this value (USD). 0 = no revenue filter (include zero-revenue and undisclosed). 100 = post-validation only. 1000 = ramen-profitable. 10000 = $10k MRR club. 100000 = bootstrapped winners. Indie Hackers stores revenue as USD/month, self-reported by founders.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Substring match against Indie Hackers vertical tags (case-insensitive). Top verticals: 'saas', 'ai', 'b2b', 'b2c', 'content', 'data', 'developer', 'design', 'ecommerce', 'education', 'finance', 'games', 'growth', 'health', 'marketing', 'productivity', 'social-media'. Examples: \['saas'], \['ai','developer']. Empty = ALL verticals.

## `revenue_disclosed_only` (type: `boolean`):

If true, return only products whose founder has publicly disclosed monthly revenue on Indie Hackers (revenue field > 0). If false (default), include all products regardless of disclosure. Useful for MRR research, VC sourcing of validated indie businesses, and filtering out pre-revenue side projects.

## `platforms` (type: `array`):

Filter by product platform tag. Allowed values (case-insensitive substring match): 'web', 'ios', 'android', 'mac', 'windows', 'linux', 'chrome-extension', 'shopify', 'wordpress'. Examples: \['web'], \['ios','android']. Empty = ALL platforms.

## `revenue_model` (type: `array`):

Filter by revenue-model tag from Indie Hackers (case-insensitive substring match). Common values: 'subscription' (SaaS recurring), 'advertising', 'transactional' (one-off), 'commission', 'donations', 'licensing', 'ecommerce'. Examples: \['subscription'] to find indie SaaS, \['advertising','transactional'] for content + one-off. Empty = ALL models.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "limit": 10,
  "sort": "top",
  "min_revenue": 0,
  "categories": [],
  "revenue_disclosed_only": false,
  "platforms": [],
  "revenue_model": []
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "limit": 10,
    "sort": "top",
    "min_revenue": 0,
    "categories": [],
    "revenue_disclosed_only": false,
    "platforms": [],
    "revenue_model": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/indie-hackers-products-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "limit": 10,
    "sort": "top",
    "min_revenue": 0,
    "categories": [],
    "revenue_disclosed_only": False,
    "platforms": [],
    "revenue_model": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/indie-hackers-products-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "limit": 10,
  "sort": "top",
  "min_revenue": 0,
  "categories": [],
  "revenue_disclosed_only": false,
  "platforms": [],
  "revenue_model": []
}' |
apify call nexgendata/indie-hackers-products-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nexgendata/indie-hackers-products-tracker"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/eg7cRhF7Dapc6KrGT/builds/gLhAgQJinNFH33Yuv/openapi.json