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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

894

Total upvotes

21,066

Reviews written

none yet

Claimed by makers

3 tools

Verified working

99%

link-checked automatically

Collections

0 community-made

Tools by category

Developer Tools

162

157

Productivity

138

Design

100

Other

Marketing

No-Code

Security

Analytics

Finance

Pricing mix

How indie tools on the directory actually price themselves.

Freemium

47%

Open source

24%

Free

16%

Paid

12%

Not specified

Launch cadence — last 12 months

New tools approved per month.

Most common tags

open source · 191 AI · 110 productivity · 53 privacy · 51 API · 43 SAAS · 36 design · 30 no-code · 30 email · 24 notes · 24 LLM · 23 marketing · 22

What this tells us

Developer Tools is the largest category with 162 tools, followed by AI (157).
16% 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 10 people have a public maker profile.
Automated link-checking keeps 99% of the catalogue confirmed reachable at any given time — see the guides for how that works.

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