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How to post your product on Indie Hackers

Founder community with a product directory and a build-in-public forum

Indie Hackers has a free route; its paid options are extras, not a listing fee. The listing we checked marked its link to the product nofollow.

Free routeLink observed: nofollow — marked nofollow — search engines are asked not to pass ranking creditTop 50k
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At a glance

Free route
Free route

Terms state the services are free at the basic tier; a product page and forum posts cost nothing, but new accounts must be granted posting access by moderators (the IH+ page offers skipping that wait)

Paid listing from

No paid listing — the free route is the way in.

Review time
  • Free route: product page reported live immediately without review (third-party sources); posting access granted on an unpublished schedule
Link on a live listing
Link observed: nofollow — marked nofollow — search engines are asked not to pass ranking credit

Marked nofollow — search engines are asked not to pass ranking credit. Indie Hackers does not say what kind of link it gives.

What we read: https://www.indiehackers.com/products (Wayback Machine copy of 2026-10-03) - outbound links to product websites carry rel='nofollow noopener'; live pages are behind a Cloudflare 403 for curl

Requirements
  • Account required (no anonymous path)
  • New accounts need moderator-granted posting access, or an IH+ subscription to skip the wait.
  • Product page needs name, tagline, website and logo (per third-party guides; route /products/new)
  • Pure promotion without a story or numbers is reported to get no traction.
Popularity

#36,026 in the Tranco top-1M list of 9 October 2026 — Top 50k.

Plans and prices

PlanPriceStated waitIncludes
Indie Hackers Plus (annual)$198 a year—first-class community privileges: skip the wait and post from day one; premium founder profile; case studies and idea reports databases

How to post your product on Indie Hackers, step by step

  1. 1Get the kit ready. Name, a one-line tagline, a short description, a square logo, two or three screenshots and your pricing in numbers — the same kit works on every directory.
  2. 2Open Indie Hackers's submit page. It is at indiehackers.com/products/new.
  3. 3Take the free route, if it fits. Terms state the services are free at the basic tier; a product page and forum posts cost nothing, but new accounts must be granted posting access by moderators (the IH+ page offers skipping that wait)
  4. 4Check the rules first. Account required (no anonymous path) New accounts need moderator-granted posting access, or an IH+ subscription to skip the wait. Product page needs name, tagline, website and logo (per third-party guides; route /products/new)
  5. 5Once it is live, check the link. Open your listing, right-click the link to your site and choose Inspect: the rel attribute says whether it is a plain link, nofollow, ugc or sponsored.

What a launch there gets you

A product page in the Products database plus forum posts and build-in-public updates that can reach the home page and newsletter; there is no launch day or ranking. Suits bootstrapped and indie founders who will share numbers and lessons rather than announce a launch.

  • 16 of the 35 launch platforms and directories whose live listings we read gave a plain link; Indie Hackers's was marked nofollow.
  • By traffic rank it is number 13 of the 27 launch platforms and directories here that appear in the Tranco top-1M list.

Indie Hackers: the questions founders ask

How much does it cost to post on Indie Hackers?

Indie Hackers has a free route; its paid options are extras, not a listing fee. Other paid options: Indie Hackers Plus (annual) at $198 a year.

Is Indie Hackers free?

Yes, with conditions. Terms state the services are free at the basic tier; a product page and forum posts cost nothing, but new accounts must be granted posting access by moderators (the IH+ page offers skipping that wait)

How long does a post on Indie Hackers take?

Free route: product page reported live immediately without review (third-party sources); posting access granted on an unpublished schedule.

Does Indie Hackers give a dofollow backlink?

Indie Hackers does not say. The listing we checked marked its link to the product nofollow.

What does Indie Hackers require?

Account required (no anonymous path). New accounts need moderator-granted posting access, or an IH+ subscription to skip the wait. Product page needs name, tagline, website and logo (per third-party guides; route /products/new). Pure promotion without a story or numbers is reported to get no traction.

Sources

Read on 10 October 2026. Read on Indie Hackers's own pages; where a fact came from an archived copy or a third-party report, that source is listed too.

Next to the others

Indie Hackers is one of 41 launch platforms and directories we checked on the same day, with the same questions.

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