# IndieTide

> IndieTide is a weekly launch board for indie products. Every week has its own leaderboard, ranked by votes from the community.

Launches run Monday to Sunday (UTC). Products are ranked by votes from signed-in users. Every product has a permanent page, and a markdown version at the same URL with `.md` appended.

Each product page links to the maker's website. The link is nofollow before and during the launch week and dofollow once the week has ended. It never depends on a badge or a link back.

## For AI agents

IndieTide has an MCP server (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in or API key) at https://indietide.com/mcp. Its tools:

- get_weekly_board: This week's launches ranked by votes, or the final results of any past week.
- search_products: Search every launched product by keyword, category, pricing or tech stack.
- get_product: One product's full page: description, pricing, tech stack, the maker's answers and screenshots.
- get_submission_guide: The launch rules, field limits, categories, technologies and the weeks that still have spots.
- prepare_submission: Checks a launch draft against the rules and returns a link where the maker signs in, reviews it and launches.

To launch a product for a user: call get_submission_guide, draft the fields from what the user tells you and from their website, then call prepare_submission and give the user the link it returns. The link works for 7 days. The user opens it, signs in, reviews the draft, adds a logo and screenshots, and launches it. An agent cannot sign in, vote or launch on a user's behalf, and nothing is public until the user schedules the launch. Only draft a product the user makes or represents, and don't invent features or prices.

Without MCP, send the user to https://indietide.com/submit to fill in the launch form themselves.

- [Setup for Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients](https://indietide.com/agents)
- [Launch rules](https://indietide.com/about): ranking, the weekly cap, moderation, relaunches and the link policy

## This week (week 46, Nov 9 – Nov 15, 2026)

- [traffic.cx](https://indietide.com/products/traffic-cx.md): Privacy-friendly web analytics that shows which sources bring paying customers
- [Postmoderno](https://indietide.com/products/postmoderno.md): Schedule social posts by asking ChatGPT, Claude or any MCP client
- [Uptimepage](https://indietide.com/products/uptimepage.md): Uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call in one open-source tool
- [Scanly](https://indietide.com/products/scanly.md): Free, open-source Android scanner. Clean PDFs, fully offline.
- [Seercraft](https://indietide.com/products/seercraft.md): Track your competitors' Facebook and Instagram ads and see what to test next
- [Novastart](https://indietide.com/products/novastart.md): The Infinite Canvas Whiteboard OS

## Last week's results (week 45)

- No launches.
- [Full results](https://indietide.com/week/2026/45)

## Directory

- [All products](https://indietide.com/products): every launched product, searchable and filterable by category, pricing and tech stack (query parameters: q, category, pricing, tech, sort=top|new|name).
- [Best tools](https://indietide.com/best): ranked collections of indie tools by category and by tech stack, most voted first.

## Categories

- [AI](https://indietide.com/categories/ai): Tools that use language, vision or speech models to do real work.
- [Developer tools](https://indietide.com/categories/developer-tools): CLIs, libraries, APIs and apps that make building software faster.
- [Productivity](https://indietide.com/categories/productivity): Apps for planning, focus, notes and getting through the day.
- [Design](https://indietide.com/categories/design): Tools for interface design, illustration, colour and type.
- [Marketing](https://indietide.com/categories/marketing): Help with SEO, social, email and growing an audience.
- [Analytics](https://indietide.com/categories/analytics): Understand traffic, users and revenue without the bloat.
- [Open source](https://indietide.com/categories/open-source): Projects you can read, fork and self-host.
- [Finance](https://indietide.com/categories/finance): Budgeting, invoicing and money tools for small teams.

## Built with

- [Paddle](https://indietide.com/tech/paddle): 2 products
- [PostgreSQL](https://indietide.com/tech/postgres): 2 products
- [Resend](https://indietide.com/tech/resend): 2 products
- [Rust](https://indietide.com/tech/rust): 2 products
- [ClickHouse](https://indietide.com/tech/clickhouse): 1 products
- [Dodo Payments](https://indietide.com/tech/dodo-payments): 1 products
- [Fly.io](https://indietide.com/tech/fly): 1 products
- [Go](https://indietide.com/tech/go): 1 products
- [MongoDB](https://indietide.com/tech/mongodb): 1 products
- [Next.js](https://indietide.com/tech/nextjs): 1 products
- [SQLite](https://indietide.com/tech/sqlite): 1 products
- [Vercel](https://indietide.com/tech/vercel): 1 products

## Alternatives

- [Adobe Scan alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/adobe-scan)
- [Atria alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/atria)
- [Better Stack alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/better-stack)
- [Buffer alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/buffer)
- [CamScanner alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/camscanner)
- [Foreplay alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/foreplay)
- [Google Analytics alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/google-analytics)
- [Hootsuite alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/hootsuite)
- [Microsoft Lens alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/microsoft-lens)
- [Motion alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/motion)
- [Pingdom alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/pingdom)
- [Plausible alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/plausible)
- [Typefully alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/typefully)
- [UptimeRobot alternatives](https://indietide.com/alternatives/uptimerobot)

## Tools

- [SEO tools](https://indietide.com/tools): tools for indie makers
- [Backlink checker](https://indietide.com/tools/link-checker): Check whether a page links to your domain, with the anchor text and whether the link is dofollow, nofollow, sponsored or ugc.
- [Meta tag checker](https://indietide.com/tools/meta-checker): See a page's title, description, canonical, robots and Open Graph tags, a social card preview, and a list of fixes.
- [Domain authority checker](https://indietide.com/tools/domain-authority): Look up the Open PageRank score for up to five domains at once and compare them side by side.
- [Indexability checker](https://indietide.com/tools/indexability-checker): Check robots.txt, noindex tags and headers, canonical, redirects, https and www setup, and your sitemap, with a fix for each problem.
- [Social preview checker](https://indietide.com/tools/social-preview): Preview your link as a feed card, a compact card and a chat message, and check the share image's size, shape and weight.
- [DR3 vs DR4 checker](https://indietide.com/tools/dr-checker): Compare Ahrefs Domain Rating under the current model (DR3) and the new one (DR4) for up to five domains or subdomains.
- [Widgets](https://indietide.com/widgets): embeddable vote counter, top-of-the-week list and maker card
- [Launch directories after DR4](https://indietide.com/launch-directories): launch directories compared by DR3, DR4, link type and price

## Guides

- [How to launch your product: a checklist](https://indietide.com/guides/launch-checklist): A practical launch checklist for indie makers: what to fix on your site before launch, what to do on launch day, and how to follow up in the week after.
- [How to get your site indexed by Google and Bing](https://indietide.com/guides/get-indexed-google-bing): Set up Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, submit a sitemap, fix robots.txt, noindex and canonical mistakes, use IndexNow, and check whether your pages are indexed.
- [Which launch directories are still worth it after DR4](https://indietide.com/guides/launch-directories-after-dr4): Ahrefs' DR4 cut the scores of many launch directories. How to judge a directory on what matters: real traffic, search visibility, the link it gives you and what it asks in return.
- [What Ahrefs DR4 means for makers](https://indietide.com/guides/ahrefs-dr4): Ahrefs is changing how Domain Rating is calculated. What DR4 changes, what DR is and isn't, why your score may move, and what to do about it.
- [Weekly newsletter](https://indietide.com/newsletter): every launch from the past week, by email and on the web

## Optional

- [RSS feed of launches](https://indietide.com/feed.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://indietide.com/sitemap.xml)
- [How it works](https://indietide.com/about)