9,000 makers and 20 launches a day, with 3,164 products already booked ahead of you and a nofollow link at the end of it.
awesomeindie.com
Eligibility
Who Awesome Indie accepts
You need
An account: Google, GitHub or X, no password
A live URL their crawler can read
A logo, which their AI will lift from your page if you have one
You'll be rejected if
Nothing published
Indie productsSaaS productsAI toolsSide projects
What you actually get
A product page with a comment thread, a category listing and a launch day months out, in front of a community of about 9,400 makers. The outbound link carries rel=nofollow, so the value is the audience and the launch-day ranking, not your domain.
How to submit to Awesome Indie
1
Sign in
Google, GitHub or X. Their own line: no passwords, we never post to your accounts.
2
Give them three things
Product name (40 characters), the slug and your URL. That is the whole submission form.
3
Let the AI draft, then fix it
Their AI opens your site, grabs the logo and a screenshot, writes a tagline and description and picks categories. It saves as a draft; nothing is published.
4
Edit every field
Tagline is capped at 64 characters and the description at 2,500, across General, Media and Links tabs. Replace the generated copy with your own.
5
Submit for review
An automated check runs within the hour and anything uncertain goes to a person. The dialog then quotes your estimated launch week.
Awesome Indie requirements
Account (Google, GitHub or X)
Product name, 40 characters max
Live URL
Tagline, 64 characters max
Description, 2,500 characters max
1 to 5 categories
Logo, PNG/JPG/WEBP/GIF up to 5MBoptional
Screenshots and a demo videooptional
Gotchas
The queue is the story: they launch 20 products a day and told us 3,164 were already booked ahead, putting a submission made in August 2026 into the week of 20 January 2027.
The link is nofollow. Live product pages carry rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" on the outbound link, so this is a launch, not a backlink.
Their AI writes your listing from a scrape before you see it. It is a draft and you can edit everything, but if you submit without reading it, the pitch on the page is theirs and not yours.
Let your agent submit to Awesome Indie
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Awesome Indie playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.
What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 4 Awesome Indie rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 8 fields this form asks for, 2 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into Awesome Indie in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Awesome Indie?".
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Awesome Indie FAQ
How long does Awesome Indie approval take?
Awesome Indie's typical time from submission to going live is 23+ weeks.
How much does it cost to submit to Awesome Indie?
Submitting to Awesome Indie is free.
Does Awesome Indie give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Awesome Indie are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 28.
Does Awesome Indie require a backlink to your site?
No, Awesome Indie does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Awesome Indie?
Nothing published.