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IndiHunt: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

Visit

You pick your own launch date and the outbound link is followed, on a two month old board whose top products are Spotify and YouTube.

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IndiHunt homepage
Eligibility

Who IndiHunt accepts

You need
An account: GitHub, Google, Facebook or Apple
A live product URL
A square logo and at least one gallery screenshot
One to three launch tags
You'll be rejected if
A product already launched here, since their FAQ allows one launch per product and treats a relaunch as something only a major new version earns
SaaS productsIndie productsAI toolsDeveloper toolsMobile appsBrowser extensionsOpen sourceHardware
What you actually get
A listing at /products/<slug> with a followed link to your site, read by very few people. The site's own pulse counter says 29 active makers, 275 products and 1,258 upvotes cast, the domain was registered in July 2026, and yesterday's top products are Spotify, YouTube, Skillshare and Udemy on one upvote each, which is a board seeded by its founder rather than a queue of launches. The Advertise page claims 800,000 newsletter subscribers and 4.2 million monthly views against those numbers. Come for the link and the low effort, not for the day's traffic.

How to submit to IndiHunt

  1. Sign in
    The header carries no Submit button until you do. The modal shows GitHub as a labelled button, with Google, Facebook and Apple as an unlabelled icon row underneath; LinkedIn and X are drawn greyed out. Google opens a Supabase OAuth callback and creates the account in the same click.
  2. Finish the profile it interrupts you with
    Before anything else, an onboarding panel asks for a display name, username, LinkedIn, X, a 40 character headline and an age confirmation, with three newsletters pre-ticked. The display name is whatever your Google account is called, and it is what gets printed under the launch.
  3. Paste the URL and let it scrape
    Submit, then Submit Product, asks for one field: the product's address. Get started opens a four screen wizard with the name, tagline, description and thumbnail already filled from your meta tags.
  4. Fill the wizard
    Main info takes the name (40), tagline (60), description (500), extra store links, the Made in India, open source and student checkboxes, an X username, one to three launch tags and the first comment. Images and media takes the square thumbnail, the gallery, and optional video and demo links. Makers decides whether you are published as the product's maker or only as its hunter.
  5. Schedule the launch
    The last screen scores completion against seven required fields and ends in Create draft or Schedule launch. Their FAQ says a date can be chosen up to 30 days ahead; nothing on the site states an editorial review, and llm.txt describes only automated moderation of the text.

IndiHunt requirements

An account
GitHub, Google, Facebook or Apple
Launch name
40 characters
Tagline
60 characters
Description
500 characters
Thumbnail logo
240x240 square, JPG, PNG or GIF
At least one gallery screenshot
Launch tags
1 to 3
A live product URL
First commentoptional
Video or demo linkoptional
YouTube, Loom, Arcade or Hexus

Gotchas

Their FAQ allows one launch per product, and you choose the date yourself, so a day that lands badly is the only day you get until you have a major new version to relaunch with.
The Makers screen defaults to "I didn't work on this product", which publishes your own launch with you credited as its hunter and nobody credited as its maker. Change it before you schedule.
Pasting your URL on the first screen scrapes the site and writes your name, tagline, description and thumbnail from your meta tags. Nothing warns you, and that copy is the listing until you overwrite it.

Let your agent submit to IndiHunt

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the IndiHunt 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 5 IndiHunt rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 10 fields this form asks for, 2 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into IndiHunt 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 IndiHunt?".
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IndiHunt FAQ

How long does IndiHunt approval take?
IndiHunt does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to IndiHunt?
Submitting to IndiHunt is free.
Does IndiHunt give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on IndiHunt carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 1.
Does IndiHunt require a backlink to your site?
No, IndiHunt does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from IndiHunt?
A product already launched here, since their FAQ allows one launch per product and treats a relaunch as something only a major new version earns.