Awesome Indie is a small niche community made for indie makers and small teams of bootstrapped startups, where you can explore, upvote, or submit projects.
Hi hunters and makers! 🙌
I've been working on this on and off as a side project since the last year. And now, after multiple refactors and redesigns, I feel it is finally in an MVP state ready for its first launch! 🚀
Awesome Indie was created as a small and clean alternative to startup directories like BetaList, StartupBase, Launching Next, and even Product Hunt itself (inception? 😂).
The main goal is to feature mostly bootstrapped products made by indie makers, solo founders, or small independent teams. As an indie maker myself, sometimes we see our hard-worked projects getting shadowed by big corporate products, so Awesome Indie is an attempt to create a small community dedicated to all of us, indie makers! 🙂
I tried to make the submission process as painless as possible. For example, it's not required to add custom images as I have an automated job that will automatically take screenshots to the product website when it gets approved.
The project was completely bootstrapped, with zero investment (only time and sweat 😅) and the first products were manually added by me. Nowadays there are a few organic users that submit their projects daily, but, the number of submissions is still very low, so sometimes some "not-so-indie" products are accepted, in a way to maintain the website running with 1-3 daily featured projects. So, hopefully, this launch will generate more visibility and increase the number of future submissions.
I hope you like it! It is very possible you find some bugs around, if so please ping me on Twitter so I can add it to the backlog.
Thanks! 🙌
@katerina_kurshina the image thumbnails are automated, I have a small puppeteer script, that runs after a product gets approved, which is responsible to screenshot the website and generate a thumbnail. I have been improving this script by, for example, trying to close any cookie banners before taking a screenshot, or properly waiting for all the JS to load. But you are right, some still come out a little sloppy. Maybe I'll add the option to upload a custom thumbnail if the automated one comes out with some issues. Anyway, I'm grateful for your upvote! 🙏 Thanks for the support! 🙌
@diogocapela Cool idea, I hope it levels the playing field for indie makers and help them reach their audiences. Also, I'm curious which team size you counsider "indie makers".
@maya_ovice thanks! 🙌 That's indeed a very difficult question, I think it goes into some kind of grey area. Sometimes is not that easy to label something as indie or not.
Congratulations on the Diogo. Your project would potentially provide exposure to often an under-appreciated community of IndieHackers. All the very best.
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