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indie hacker passion projects

Recent window: last 5.1 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-27), compared with the prior 5.1 months.

media · 251 members · Data as of 2026-09-30

These products range from custom hardware conversions and reverse-engineered retro software to niche indie games, developer tools, and technical books. Built primarily by solo engineers and makers, they are made for curious developers, hobbyists, and fellow tech enthusiasts. Unlike commercially oriented B2B or consumer SaaS clusters, these launches are defined by idiosyncratic, deep-dive craftsmanship and long-term personal experiments.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
133
Prior count
99
Total count
251
Momentum
34.34
Attention
0.52
Crowding
0.72
Concentration
0.82
Opportunity
0.33

Opportunity components

Attention
0.52
Low crowding
0.28
Momentum (normalized)
0.34
Low concentration
0.18

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
6 (0.05)
hn
105 (0.79)
ph
21 (0.16)
yc
1 (0.01)

Dominant source: hn · Divergence: 0.78

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s HN 2935 2026-07-19
I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 HN 721 2026-02-10
Are You in the Weights? HN 471 2026-06-18
Lathe HN 402 2026-06-07
I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built HN 338 2026-08-02
I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back HN 314 2026-01-19
San Fran Sim PH 310 2026-07-11
Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt HN 265 2026-01-01
I wrote a technical history book on Lisp HN 252 2026-02-17
Koi.rest HN 226 2026-09-24
It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it HN 208 2026-02-04
Startups.RIP PH 204 2026-04-09
My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs HN 199 2025-12-29
Stacked Game of Life HN 195 2026-02-28
Incorruptible by Eric Ries PH 192 2026-06-10
Opening lines of famous literary works HN 183 2026-07-14
Sparkles - Lovable for existing projects YC 164 2026-02-04
I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin HN 160 2026-01-03
I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges HN 158 2026-04-04
An index of indie web/blog indexes HN 154 2026-05-10
Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder HN 144 2025-12-03
GhostBox HN 126 2026-05-01
Jigsaw Haiku HN 118 2026-09-04
Backlog HN 112 2025-12-22
I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses HN 90 2026-01-16
GeneGuessr HN 88 2025-12-23
I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool HN 80 2026-07-21
tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction HN 74 2026-07-28
A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management HN 74 2026-01-05
My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod HN 71 2026-06-20
Fatal Core Dump HN 68 2026-03-14
StackScope HN 67 2026-06-12
I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent HN 65 2026-03-30
Choose your own adventure style Presentation HN 60 2025-11-21
Build your own theme park HN 58 2026-08-26
killmyidea GITHUB 55 2026-09-17
I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down HN 54 2026-06-13
I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames HN 53 2025-12-28
Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation HN 51 2026-02-28
I'm building an open-source Amazon HN 50 2025-12-12
Corporate Mind Games HN 50 2026-08-31
A Daily Bible Game HN 49 2026-01-08
A working reference implementation of context engineering HN 46 2026-04-17
A game where you invest into startups from history HN 43 2025-11-15
The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2) HN 43 2026-03-06
Open-source certificate from GitHub activity HN 43 2026-01-18
Ekselio HN 42 2026-09-25
Dumbass Business Ideas HN 42 2025-11-14
I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative HN 41 2026-09-10
Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism HN 41 2026-08-06