r/indiehackers: Most Popular Posts Last Month
What r/indiehackers, a place for solo and bootstrapped makers shipping small profitable products, upvoted, argued about and asked for help with in September 2026. Built from every post that stayed up that month.
- Posts
- 42
- Posts a day
- 1
- Typical upvotes
- 10
- Typical comments
- 37
3,063 posts were submitted and 94% were removed by moderators or Reddit, so read the rules before you post here. Everything below is from the 42 that stayed up.
“Typical” is the median post. Updated monthly; this edition: September 2026.
Top 25 r/indiehackers posts in September 2026
Sorted by upvotes. Titles open the thread on Reddit.
- 1Share what you're building
Pitch your product in 1-2 lines - and drop a link here. I'm building a community where makers can share what they’re building and get fair visibility. Here's the link: [https://trylaunch.ai](https://trylaunch.ai/)
26164Sep 9Self Promotion
- 24 months in: 43 paying users, $1,247 MRR. Here's what actually worked.
I started this in May with a very specific problem: I didn't know what to post on X. Not "how to write" - I could write. I didn't know what to post that people would actually see. And I had zero idea which posts to…
2667Sep 2Sharing story/journey/experience
- 3Share what you're building
Pitch your product in 1-2 lines - and drop a link here. I'm building a community where makers can share what they’re building and get fair visibility. Here's the link: [https://trylaunch.ai](https://trylaunch.ai/)
21123Sep 16Self Promotion
- 4Share what you're building
Pitch your product in 1-2 lines - and drop a link here. I'm building a community where makers can share what they’re building and get fair visibility. Here's the link: [https://trylaunch.ai](https://trylaunch.ai/)
20122Sep 24Self Promotion
- 5We beat a YC-backed company in a launch battle with a fraction of their audience. The product launches September 21.
We're launching Kaijubeam on September 21 and I'm inviting some founders here to join early and ride whatever momentum we spark during launch week. Quick origin story. Earlier this year we challenged a YC-backed…
2082Sep 16Self Promotion
- 6Shipped more code in 3 days than the last 2.5 months. VC demo does something to you!!
shipped more code this labor day weekend than the last 2.5 months combined. vc demo incoming. waking up at 3am, working through the holiday with my co-founder... and honestly it doesn't feel bad. the weird thing is…
1964Sep 8Sharing story/journey/experience
- 7I launched my first tool a year ago to zero traction. I finally pivoted this week.
A year ago, I launched a landing page generator for Steam games. The logic made sense in my head: indie devs are busy building games, so giving them a quick way to throw up a promotional landing page should be a…
1624Sep 24Sharing story/journey/experience
- 86 months ago I started building my tool, it just crossed 6k visitors
Hi fellow builders, I got another milestone and thought to share it here. I launched my first product in April and it went better than I expected. It's now past 6k visitors and it's made a decent amount of money too.…
1644Sep 23Sharing story/journey/experience
- 9How do you validate your ideas?
Hey guys, Yesterday I went to a meetup promoting the importance of automating your AI flows to 10x your workflow. Super interesting talk! Although he mentioned that if your company is not 100% AI managed, you’re…
1683Sep 23General Question
- 1016 conversations with indie AI builders later, here's what I got wrong about distribution
Last month I posted here that indie AI products die from distribution, not bad code. Top comment pushed back: "a 20-min interview and some clips is content, not distribution." Fair. Three things I saw since. 1. Timo…
1666Sep 3Sharing story/journey/experience
- 11Wild thought, but want to verify here.
We've been building a platform where you submit your favorite posts and we stream them back to you. You can also subscribe to web events so you're not missing things you care about. wondering if anyone here is already…
1537Sep 24General Question
- 124 months, 40 free users, first launch ever coming in: the actual numbers behind ScreenerHub
screenerhub.app is live for 4 months now. Tommorow I try a launch on indeed.best, my first real launch, ever! I'm writing this now, while it's still raw, because in a week I'll probably start softening the parts that…
1568Sep 7Sharing story/journey/experience
- 13Rank 1 on Product Hunt: 0.146 comments per vote. Rank 21 or worse: 0.050
I measured comments per vote on 10,012 featured Product Hunt posts, 1 Sep 2024 through 23 Sep 2026. The figure is the median of comments divided by votes inside each rank band, not the median comments divided by the…
1429Sep 27Knowledge post
- 14Building a second project to see if SEO can get it to 10k$ MRR
I built a few projects, so this is not exactly second, but what I mean is that I built one that is profitable - [PostFast](https://postfa.st) as a social media scheduler when the time was right, but for it I needed an…
1437Sep 26Sharing story/journey/experience
- 15I built a simpler crowdfunding platform for people who make things
I’ve spent the last couple of years building products, and one thing I kept noticing is how many ideas get validated with likes, waitlists and “would you buy this?” posts. So I built Backed; you create a project, set a…
1327Sep 23Self Promotion
- 16Posted into an empty timeline for 4 months, one reply from a stranger fixed something I didn't know was broken
Small B2B dev tool, 15 of us, and for 4 months I posted build-in-public updates on X to basically nobody. Single digit likes, zero replies, my cofounder started calling it "talking to the ghost town." I kept going…
1313Sep 7Sharing story/journey/experience
- 17Can't believe a rough one-pager turned into a real agent verification engine people actually use
Grateful for the kind words from this community last week Saw a few encouraging comments on my previous on **VC demo/grinding 3am..early hours**...( [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/indiehackers/s/p6DLOaXiss) ) and…
1187Sep 11Sharing story/journey/experience
- 18Focused in-product micro surveys. Need your feedback
Hello everyone! 👋 I'd love to get your thoughts on something I've been building: [https://sensefolks.com](https://sensefolks.com/) **Sensefolks** helps product teams collect meaningful customer insights through…
1143Sep 9Self Promotion
- 19The option pool diluted us before the check hit the bank
I run Bowora, a founder network / startup directory. When we published a public seed dilution walkthrough, one detail confused founders more than pre-money vs post-money: the pre-money option pool. Worked numbers from…
1117Sep 6Sharing story/journey/experience
- 20PR reviews are taking longer than ever, are you actually catching agent-written bugs or just going through the motions?
<disclaimer maybe some ppl find long post but just trying to understand pain is real or not …> I have been talking a lot lately from devs and eng managers: review queues are backed up, the diffs are huge, and nobody is…
1086Sep 17General Question
- 21Less tabs, more impact: Why I combined two of my indie apps
As an indie hacker and solo game developer, I am constantly building tools to solve my own problems. Out of the micro tools I have made recently, I created one called Radar where you could search a game title and find…
1026Sep 10Sharing story/journey/experience
- 22Solo founder here, I launched a code review practice app. Would love honest feedback
Im a solo dev (@Canvasowl on X) and Goodcatch is one of the products Im building. The idea: AI writes more code every day, so the skill that matters more now is catching what it gets wrong. Goodcatch gives you real…
927Sep 30Sharing story/journey/experience
- 23Spent my weekend building a reading tool because I was drowning in tabs and retaining nothing
Hey everyone, I had one of those Saturday mornings where I had 25 tabs open, read 3 articles properly, and spent the rest of the time either skimming things too fast or copy-pasting them into ChatGPT to get the gist So…
977Sep 10Self Promotion
- 24Home inventory app: what would make the export good enough for a claim?
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.koalalab.storeandforget](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.koalalab.storeandforget) Solo dev, Android only. Store & Forget is a home inventory. You…
927Sep 6Self Promotion
- 25600 website visits in a week but only a single app download - advice
I recently did a TAAFT newsletter placement but after 600+ website visits and only a single external download, I am ready to call it what it is: my favorite app in the world, works so damn well, removes pain from my…
863Sep 14Sharing story/journey/experience
What people asked about or struggled with
Questions, complaints and “is there a tool for…” posts with the most discussion. A post with dozens of replies means many people have the same problem, which is where product ideas come from.
- How do you validate your ideas?
Hey guys, Yesterday I went to a meetup promoting the importance of automating your AI flows to 10x your workflow. Super interesting talk! Although he mentioned that if your company is not 100% AI managed, you’re…
83 replies16Check if it's worth building → - Are coding agents creating a review wall, or am I inventing a problem?
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had multiple discussions with PMs and eng leads at companies of different sizes about how hard it’s been for engineering teams to transition to AI safely and effectively. The fears…
50 replies4Check if it's worth building → - I need help
I have a massive update coming for [Gamified Lives](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gamified-lives/id6761446121). How should i prioritize stages for the update? Essentially I’m reworking the users avatar to be able to…
27 replies6Check if it's worth building →
Best time to post on r/indiehackers
For every hour of the week we checked what share of September 2026's posts reached the top quarter by upvotes (more than 15 upvotes). Small samples are smoothed so one lucky post can't top the list.
Best days
Not enough posts to say.
Best hours (ET)
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Best day + hour
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“% top” = share of posts from that time that reached the top quarter. Across the whole month it's 24%, so anything well above that did better than average.
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Questions
What were the most popular r/indiehackers posts last month?
In September 2026 the top post was “Share what you're building” with 26 upvotes and 164 comments. The full top 25 is at the top of this page.
What is the best time to post on r/indiehackers?
There weren't enough posts per day and hour to say.
How often is this page updated?
Once a month, a few days after the month ends, so late upvotes are counted. This edition covers September 2026.
Where does the data come from?
Every public r/indiehackers post from the month (42 posts), read from a public Reddit archive. Removed, deleted and NSFW posts are left out.