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State of Indie Launches 2026

A real look at the indie SaaS landscape on Ignlab Launch — every number below is a live query against the actual catalogue, not a survey or an estimate.

Tools tracked

656

Total upvotes

21,061

Reviews written

none yet

Claimed by makers

1 tools

Verified working

98%

link-checked automatically

Collections

0 community-made

Tools by category

Developer Tools

138

100

Productivity

Design

Marketing

Other

No-Code

Security

Analytics

Finance

Pricing mix

How indie tools on the directory actually price themselves.

Freemium

48%

Open source

32%

Paid

10%

Free

10%

Not specified

Launch cadence — last 12 months

New tools approved per month.

Most common tags

open source · 187 AI · 65 API · 37 privacy · 34 no-code · 27 notes · 24 email · 23 LLM · 23 design · 20 analytics · 19 react · 17 database · 16

What this tells us

Developer Tools is the largest category with 138 tools, followed by AI (100).
10% of listed tools are completely free — indie makers lean heavily toward free or freemium over paid-only models.
0% of tools have been claimed by a verified maker account, and 2 people have a public maker profile.
Automated link-checking keeps 98% of the catalogue confirmed reachable at any given time — see the guides for how that works.

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