Your Indie Hackers profile vs your own maker page

What Indie Hackers does well

Indie Hackers is the best-known community for founders building profitable online businesses on their own or in small teams: a forum, milestone posts, interviews and a directory of products. Its strength is the people. Posting progress there gets you feedback, early users and, over time, a reputation.

As of October 2026, its products directory lets founders add a product, share revenue if they want to, and sort listings with Stripe-verified revenue first. A listing on its own brings little traffic; the posts and comments are where the attention is.

What a profile there is not

An Indie Hackers profile lives inside Indie Hackers. Its layout, its links and who sees it are set by the site, and it is organized around your posts and comments rather than around your products. That is right for a community and less right for the one link in your X bio, your email signature or a job application, where a stranger wants to see in ten seconds what you have built and whether it works.

It also is not yours: you cannot put it on your own domain, see who visited it, or collect emails from it.

Side by side

Indie Hackers details as shown on its site in October 2026; check it for anything that has changed since.

Revenue people can trust

Revenue in a forum post or a screenshot is self-reported, and readers know it. Both products answer that with verification. makerhandle reads revenue with read-only access, a restricted Stripe key or a read-only connection for Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, RevenueCat or Shopify, and shows it with a check mark and a history chart. Typing a figure yourself is allowed, but it never gets the check.

That makes your page a natural place to link from a milestone post: the post tells the story, the page shows the number is real. See verified revenue and how to show verified MRR.

Use both

The usual setup is simple:

1. Keep posting progress on Indie Hackers; that is where the conversations are.
2. Put your makerhandle link in your Indie Hackers profile, your X bio and your email signature.
3. Link each milestone post to the project's own page, so readers see the status, the stack and the verified number in one place.

When Indie Hackers is the better choice: when you want feedback, peers and an audience of founders. When your own page is: whenever someone outside that community needs to see your work. See makerhandle for indie hackers and how to build in public.