Two uni students, 5 hours of sleep, and an indie catalog.

IndieStack is built by people who know what it’s like to ship something and have nobody see it.

How this started

Pat kept trying to launch side projects — GovLink, Logic Gate — and kept hitting the same wall: nobody could find them. Reddit wants you to farm karma before you can post. Product Hunt is a popularity contest. Hacker News is gated. The places where indie makers are supposed to get discovered are ironically the hardest places to be seen.

Meanwhile Ed was building AI automations for solar panel businesses and running into the same problem — every tool cost $29.99 a month, and the good stuff built by real people was impossible to find. One night Pat texted: “There’s a gap here we need to fill. This will solve all of our problems with SaaS.” That text became IndieStack.

What we’re actually building

A curated catalog of indie creations that’s searchable by both humans and AI agents. We have an MCP server that plugs into Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf — so when a developer asks their AI to build something, it checks IndieStack first. If an indie creation already does the job, the agent recommends it instead of building from scratch.

Think of it like humans sharing knowledge across generations — except we’re building the same system for AI agents. Every tool listed here saves someone else from reinventing the wheel, saves tokens, and helps the maker build a reputation.

Who we are

We’ve been friends since school — we used to play Pokémon Go together before either of us knew what an API was. Now we’re based in Cardiff, building IndieStack with the same energy (and once smashed a laptop screen fighting over the keyboard because we couldn’t agree whose prompt was better).

Neither of us has a background in SaaS or startups — Pat studies zoology and Ed was automating solar businesses. This whole thing started because we couldn’t get our own projects noticed. That frustration turned into IndieStack.

Why indie creations specifically

Because we were sick of every tool costing $29.99 a month. We just wanted a place to find powerful tools built by real people, not corporations. The vibecoding wave means more people than ever are building real software — but getting discovered is still the hardest part. If you’ve built something useful, you should be able to put it in front of people without farming karma or paying for placement.

Abandonware is a real problem — that’s why we verify every tool on IndieStack. Each one is reviewed by a human before it goes live. No spam. No abandoned projects. No enterprise products pretending to be indie. Just real tools by real people.