makerhandle vs Peerlist

What Peerlist does well

Peerlist is a professional network for people in tech. Your profile can show your work history alongside the projects you have built, and its weekly Launchpad lets members launch projects, collect upvotes and get feedback from the community.

If you want to be discovered by other builders and potential employers, and enjoy a community launch, Peerlist is a good place to be.

The community is the point: feedback from other builders is useful, especially early on, and a good launch can bring your first users.

Your page, not a profile on a network

makerhandle is not a social network. It is your own page at makerhandle.com/yourname, or on your own domain with Pro, built to be the one link in all your bios.

You add projects with a description, tags, screenshot and status (Active, Building, Acquired, On hold or Discontinued), and choose one of seven templates: Stack, Showcase, Bento, Minimal, Spotlight, Terminal or Studio. The templates are hard to break and the page is done in about two minutes. No feed to keep up with.

Verified revenue

If your projects earn money, makerhandle can prove it. Connect Stripe with a read-only restricted key or Shopify with a read-only app, and revenue appears with a check mark and a history chart. Verified projects can appear on the public leaderboard.

That makes makerhandle especially useful for indie hackers and founders, where "does it make money?" is often the first question. See verified revenue.

Revenue is always optional. Open source and side projects look just as complete with status and screenshots alone.

Analytics and subscribers you own

Because it is your page, you get your own analytics, with no cookies and no stored IPs: visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, visit duration, sources and UTM campaigns, locations, devices, project clicks and subscribes as goals, realtime and CSV export.

You can also collect email subscribers with a double opt-in box and export them as CSV, or link a button to your newsletter. Pro is $20 a year with a custom domain, unlimited projects and unlimited subscribers. See pricing.

Free covers 100 subscribers.

Use both

Peerlist and makerhandle do different jobs, so many builders will want both. Use Peerlist for your professional profile, networking and community launches. Use makerhandle as the link in your bios: a page you control that shows every project, its status and its revenue.

Link your makerhandle page from Peerlist and the other way round. For tips on structuring your page, read the indie hacker portfolio guide, or see makerhandle for developers.

Each does its own job well. Neither replaces the other.