Indie Hackers Scraper

Pull the full Indie Hackers product directory at scale — self-reported monthly revenue, follower counts, founder profiles, taglines, verticals, revenue models, and funding type across the whole 35,000+ product catalog. Search by keyword, sort by revenue, or paste exact product links. Built for indie founders, angel investors, and market researchers who need structured revenue data on bootstrapped SaaS without manually combing thousands of product pages one at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• Self-reported monthly revenue on 95–100% of rows — the headline number indie founders publish, captured as monthlyRevenueUSD so you can rank, filter, and benchmark earners across the whole directory.
• 35,000+ products in the catalog — extract the entire Indie Hackers directory, not just the first page. Set maxResults to 0 with Newest First and you get every product; with a revenue sort you get every product that reports a revenue figure (about 33,800 — 5.4% of the catalog reports none, so no revenue ranking can place them).
• Founder enrichment built in — 99.9% of founder records resolve to a username, display name and full Indie Hackers profile URL, not just an opaque internal ID.
• Three sort orders that hold at any size — Newest First returns the genuinely newest products, not the most relevant ones, and Highest/Lowest Revenue return the true top or bottom earners even past 1,000 rows (verified on a 1,500-row pull: 0 of the 1,323 real top earners missing).
• Revenue band filter, applied at the source — minRevenue and maxRevenue set a floor and a ceiling on reported monthly revenue. Both cutoffs are applied before results are collected, so the joke entries at the very top of the ranking (15 products claim $10M+/month, one claims $10 quadrillion) never reach your dataset and never appear on your bill.
• Four category dimensions broken out — verticals (B2B, SaaS, e-commerce…), revenueModels (subscription, ads…), funding (bootstrapped, seed…), and platforms (web, iOS, Chrome extension…) split into clean structured fields. verticals and funding land on 100% of rows, revenueModels on 98%+, and platforms wherever the founder tagged one (94% of rows).
• Target exact products by URL — paste a list of indiehackers.com/product/<slug> links to pull specific products instead of, or alongside, a keyword search.
• Reach signals on every row — product website URL and logo image on 100% of rows, Indie Hackers follower count on 99.7%, plus the founder's Twitter/X handle wherever one has been published — this one varies by slice (25–65% of products) and Indie Hackers keeps backfilling it.

Use Cases

Market & Competitor Research

• Benchmark monthly revenue across an entire vertical (AI, newsletters, dev tools)
• Track which revenue models (subscription vs. one-time vs. ads) earn the most
• Map the bootstrapped vs. seed-funded split within a category
• Identify newly launched products in your niche before they trend

Investor & Deal Sourcing

• Build a shortlist of products earning above a revenue threshold
• Surface the highest-revenue indie startups in a single sorted pull
• Spot founders shipping multiple products by cross-referencing profiles
• Monitor follower growth as an early traction signal

Lead Generation & Outreach

• Collect founder profile URLs and Twitter handles for warm outreach
• Build lists of products on a specific platform (web, iOS, Chrome)
• Target founders by funding stage for partnership or service offers
• Enrich an existing prospect list with revenue and category data

Trend & Content Analysis

• Track the rise of categories like AI tooling over time using createdAt
• Compile "top earners" roundups for newsletters and blog posts
• Analyze tagline language across thousands of products
• Feed structured indie-startup data into dashboards and research reports

Getting Started

Search by Keyword

The simplest run — find products matching a topic:

{
    "query": "AI",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Find the Top Earners

Combine a minimum-revenue floor with the Highest Revenue sort to surface the biggest indie startups:

{
    "query": "SaaS",
    "sortBy": "revenue_desc",
    "minRevenue": 10000,
    "maxRevenue": 10000000,
    "maxResults": 200
}

The maxRevenue ceiling is what makes this list usable. Revenue is entered by founders with no checks, and a handful of entries claim figures no indie product earns. A $10,000,000/month ceiling removes all 15 of them while keeping every genuine top earner, from Nextiva and Envato down.

Target Specific Products

Paste exact product links to pull just those products:

{
    "productUrls": [
        "https://www.indiehackers.com/product/nomad-list",
        "https://www.indiehackers.com/product/bannerbear"
    ]
}

Full Catalog Pull

Leave the query blank, keep Newest First, and set maxResults to 0 to extract every product in the directory:

{
    "query": "",
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "maxResults": 0
}

Newest First is the sort that reaches the whole catalog. An unlimited run on Highest or Lowest Revenue returns roughly 33,800 products — the ones that report a revenue figure — because the 5.4% who report none have no place in a revenue ranking.

Input Reference

Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
query	string	""	Keyword to filter products, such as "AI", "SaaS", or "newsletter". Leave empty to scrape all products.
productUrls	string[]	[]	Specific Indie Hackers product page URLs (e.g. https://www.indiehackers.com/product/your-product). Use this to pull exact products instead of, or in addition to, a search.
sortBy	select	Newest First	Order in which products are collected: Newest First, Highest Revenue, or Lowest Revenue.

Limits & Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of products to return. Set to 0 for no limit (the full catalog is over 35,000 products). Start with 100–1,000 to keep costs reasonable.
minRevenue	integer	0	Only return products reporting at least this much monthly revenue in US dollars. Set to 0 to include all products.
maxRevenue	integer	(empty)	Only return products reporting at most this much monthly revenue in US dollars. Leave empty for no upper limit. Setting a limit also leaves out products that report no revenue at all.

Output

Each result is one product, returned as a flat record:

{
    "productId": "nomad-list",
    "name": "Nomad List",
    "tagline": "The largest community of remote workers and digital nomads",
    "description": "Nomad List helps you find the best places to live and work remotely, with cost-of-living and internet-speed data for 1,000+ cities.",
    "url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/product/nomad-list",
    "websiteUrl": "https://nomadlist.com",
    "avatarUrl": "https://storage.googleapis.com/indie-hackers.appspot.com/product-avatars/nomad-list/avatar",
    "monthlyRevenueUSD": 45000,
    "numFollowers": 1820,
    "twitterHandle": "nomadlist",
    "facebookUrl": null,
    "founders": [
        {
            "userId": "8z9ZIo2WVZYI5SeYZUY6bvh8Yjy2",
            "username": "levelsio",
            "name": "levelsio",
            "profileUrl": "https://www.indiehackers.com/levelsio"
        }
    ],
    "verticals": ["b2c", "community"],
    "revenueModels": ["subscription"],
    "funding": ["bootstrapped"],
    "platforms": ["web"],
    "allTags": ["vertical-b2c", "vertical-community", "revenue-model-subscription", "funding-bootstrapped", "platform-web"],
    "startDate": "2014-11",
    "endDate": null,
    "createdAt": "2018-03-25T02:15:00Z",
    "publishedAt": "2018-03-25T02:15:00Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-03-25T02:17:29Z",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-03T20:25:04Z"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
productId	string	Unique Indie Hackers product identifier (matches the URL slug)
name	string	Product name
tagline	string	Short one-line pitch
description	string	Longer product description (occasionally empty — present on 91–100% of rows)
url	string	Indie Hackers product page URL
websiteUrl	string	The product's own website
avatarUrl	string	Product logo / avatar image URL

Revenue & Reach

Field	Type	Description
monthlyRevenueUSD	number	Self-reported monthly revenue in USD (nullable; reported by founders, not verified)
numFollowers	number	Follower count on Indie Hackers
twitterHandle	string	Product or founder Twitter/X handle, when one has been published — varies by slice, typically 25–65% of rows, otherwise null
facebookUrl	string	Social link from the product's Facebook field — usually a Facebook page, occasionally another social profile. Present on 9–45% of rows

Founders & Categories

Field	Type	Description
founders	object[]	Founder records — each with userId, username, name, and profileUrl
verticals	string[]	Product verticals/categories (B2B, SaaS, e-commerce…)
revenueModels	string[]	Revenue model tags (subscription, ads, one-time…)
funding	string[]	Funding sources (bootstrapped, seed, vc…) — products often declare more than one
platforms	string[]	Platforms the product runs on (web, iOS, Chrome extension…) — empty when the founder tagged none (about 6% of rows)
allTags	string[]	Every raw tag attached to the product

Timestamps

Field	Type	Description
startDate	string	When the product started, as reported by the founder (YYYY-MM)
endDate	string	When the product ended, if reported (nullable)
createdAt	string	ISO timestamp when the product record was created on Indie Hackers
publishedAt	string	ISO timestamp when the product was published
updatedAt	string	ISO timestamp of the last update
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when this record was collected

Tips for Best Results

• Find the biggest earners fast — pair minRevenue with sortBy: revenue_desc. The minimum-revenue floor trims the long tail at the source, and the sort puts the top earners first, so a small maxResults returns the most valuable rows.
• Always add a maxRevenue ceiling to a Highest Revenue pull — without one, the first 15 rows are placeholder figures ($10M/month and up, including a $10 quadrillion entry). A ceiling of 10000000 cuts every one of them and still keeps the real leaders. Raise or lower it to taste; it is applied before collection, so a tighter ceiling also costs you less.
• Revenue is self-reported, not audited — monthlyRevenueUSD is whatever the founder entered, and a small number of products also report negative figures. Use minRevenue and maxRevenue to bound the range you trust, and sanity-check outliers before relying on them.
• Leave query blank to scan everything — an empty keyword matches the entire directory; combine with a sort order to walk the whole catalog in a meaningful sequence.
• Set maxResults to 0 only when you mean it — on Newest First that pulls the full 35,000+ product catalog (about 33,800 on a revenue sort) and bills per result, so start with 100–1,000 to validate your filters first.
• Mix URLs and search in one run — paste known productUrls and add a query; the scraper collects both the exact products and the keyword matches in a single pass.
• Use createdAt to track emerging trends — sort by Newest First and watch which verticals are launching most often to spot momentum early.
• Read the finish line before you trust the count — a run that has to stop short says so plainly in its status message and tells you why, so you never mistake a truncated pull for a complete one.
• Filter categories after the pull — verticals, revenueModels, funding, and platforms are clean structured arrays, so you can slice your dataset by category in a spreadsheet without re-running.

Pricing

From $8.00 per 1,000 results — undercuts the going rate for Indie Hackers data while delivering founder enrichment and full-catalog reach. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.96	$0.91	$0.85	$0.80
1,000	$9.60	$9.05	$8.50	$8.00
10,000	$96.00	$90.50	$85.00	$80.00
100,000	$960.00	$905.00	$850.00	$800.00

A "result" is one product row in the output dataset. Platform fees depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects publicly available product information from Indie Hackers for legitimate market research, investment analysis, and lead generation. Self-reported revenue figures are provided by founders and are not independently verified. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Indie Hackers' Terms of Service. Do not use collected data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose, and handle any personal data (such as founder profiles) responsibly.