IndieHackers Product Scraper

Extract products from IndieHackers — the largest community of bootstrapped founders. Get names, taglines, descriptions, websites, self-reported monthly revenue, follower counts, and rich vertical/funding/platform tags for 31,000+ products. No proxy required.

What you get

Field	Description
name	Product name
tagline	One-line description
description	Full product description
websiteUrl	Product website
indiehackersUrl	Link to the IndieHackers product page
revenue	Self-reported monthly revenue (USD) — see note below
last30DaysUniques	Self-reported unique visitors in the last 30 days (often null)
numFollowers	Number of IndieHackers followers
startDateStr	Month the product started (e.g. 2026-01)
avatarUrl	Product logo image URL
verticals	Vertical tags (e.g. ai, saas, finance, productivity)
platforms	Platform tags (e.g. web, ios, android, desktop)
revenueModels	Revenue model tags (e.g. subscription, advertising, partnerships)
funding	Funding tags (e.g. bootstrapped, self, venture)
commitment	side-project or full-time
employees	Team size bucket (e.g. 0, under-10)
soloFounder	Whether the product has a solo founder
foundersCode	Whether the founders code (true/false/null)
createdAt / publishedAt	ISO timestamps
tags	Full raw tag list
productId	IndieHackers product slug

Use cases

• Lead generation — find bootstrapped founders with proven revenue to pitch tools, services, or partnerships
• Market research — see which verticals and revenue models are growing
• Competitive intelligence — track new entrants and their reported traction in your category
• Investor / acquirer sourcing — filter profitable indie businesses by revenue and vertical
• Trend analysis — export the full catalog and analyze revenue distributions over time

Examples

Browse the most recent products

{
  "sortBy": "recent",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Find profitable AI SaaS businesses

{
  "sortBy": "revenue",
  "verticals": ["ai", "saas"],
  "minRevenue": 1000,
  "maxRevenue": 1000000,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Keyword search

{
  "searchQuery": "newsletter tool",
  "maxItems": 100
}

New launches since a date

{
  "sortBy": "recent",
  "createdAfter": "2026-05-01",
  "maxItems": 0
}

Recurring launch monitor (delta mode)

Run this on a schedule (e.g. daily) with a webhook. The first run sets a baseline; every run after returns only the products launched since the previous run — no duplicates to dedupe yourself.

{
  "deltaMode": true,
  "sortBy": "recent",
  "maxItems": 0
}

Advanced tag filtering

{
  "tagFilters": ["founders-solo", "funding-bootstrapped", "revenue-model-subscription"],
  "minRevenue": 500,
  "maxItems": 300
}

Monitoring new launches

• createdAfter — pass a date (YYYY-MM-DD or ISO) to get only products added after it.
• deltaMode — turn the scraper into a stateful monitor. It remembers the newest product it has seen (in a private key-value store on your account) and on each run returns only what's new since last time. Pair it with an Apify schedule + webhook to get notified of every new IndieHackers launch automatically. The first run establishes the baseline (and respects maxItems); set maxItems: 0 afterwards to never miss one.

Sort modes

• recent (default) — newest products first. This mode can window through the entire catalog (set maxItems: 0 for no limit).
• revenue — highest reported monthly revenue first. Best for finding profitable businesses. Combine with maxRevenue to skip spam (see note).

⚠️ Note on revenue

Revenue is self-reported by founders and not verified by IndieHackers. A small number of entries contain joke or spam values (e.g. billions per month). Use maxRevenue to cap them out when sorting by revenue, e.g. "maxRevenue": 1000000.

Filtering reference

Common values you can pass to verticals (OR) or tagFilters (AND):

• verticals: ai, saas, finance, productivity, b2c, marketing, ecommerce, developer-tools, social-media, analytics, content, writing, real-estate, health
• funding: funding-bootstrapped, funding-self, funding-venture
• platform: platform-web, platform-ios, platform-android, platform-desktop, platform-mac, platform-pc
• revenue model: revenue-model-subscription, revenue-model-advertising, revenue-model-partnerships, revenue-model-free
• team: founders-solo, employees-0, employees-under-10, commitment-side-project, commitment-full-time

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.003 per product extracted. A 100-product run costs $0.30; the full catalog (~31k) costs ~$94.

How it works

The actor queries IndieHackers' public product search index directly — no browser, no proxy, fast and reliable. It transparently windows past API pagination limits so you can extract large result sets in recent mode.