FoundersDatabase

What it does

Explore bootstrapped founders (indie hackers, solo founders, makers) and their products. Keep track of what everyone is building. Includes links to their sites, socials, interviews & talks.

Discover the best AI tools, workflows, and resources to automate your business and stay ahead of AI news. Launch your product on FoundersDatabase to get high-authority backlinks and visibility.

One skill unlocks 1,800+ tools & APIs for your agent. No per-tool sign-ups, no subscriptions — your agent discovers, pays per call, and delivers. Build, test, and deploy advanced voice AI agents in minutes with Vapi. Cold email outreach, deliverability, and lead finding — all in one platform. One API for social posting, messaging, and ads — across every major platform. OpenAI's AI coding agent that writes features, fixes bugs, and ships pull requests — while you sleep. Open source AI coding agent for your terminal, IDE, or desktop. Generate AI UGC videos and images that stop the scroll and winfrom foundersdatabase.com

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  Bootstrappers2021 · bootstrappers.com · ▲788

  Publication dedicated to bootstrapping founders

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  Founder Finds2022 · ▲582

  Weekly habits & productivity hacks for bootstrapped founders

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  Founder Resources2021 · founderresources.io · ▲433

  500+ curated resources, templates & tools for startups

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  Bootstrappers.io – A community for business bootstrappers2014 · bootstrappers.io · ▲161
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  Founder Stories with Priyanka2024 · creators.spotify.com · ▲68

  Unfiltered Tales of Bootstrapped Success

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  I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup2013 · distelli.com · ▲158

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  WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement▲287

  wallhop is a free paywall bypass. Paste any article link to read it without paywall popups, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. A simple 12ft.io alternative.

  Growth · 13d ago · wallhop.io

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  Prefer▲201

  The execution layer for AEO

  Growth · 25d ago · tryprefer.com

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  MakerMap▲197

  A living map of makers and what they’re building

  Growth · 28d ago · makermap.lol

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  Clueso▲1,300

  Create stunning product videos in minutes with AI

  AI · 2025 · clueso.io

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  Trickle - Magic Canvas ▲1,064

  Hey HN! Introducing Trickle Magic Canvas: the world’s first Agentic Canvas, where you can visually co-create apps and websites with AI, from idea to production. Why is a canvas better? Most AI tools today rely on linear chats or text prompts. We believe that limits creativity and clarity. Canvas changes the game. 1. Every version & page at a glance. Each page and sub-page lives on a timeline. You can quickly browse, edit, and preview progress like a living, visual document — no more digging through chat logs or scattered states. 2. The canvas is the context. Unlike linear chats, you can…

  AI · 2025 · trickle.so

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  Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right▲1,030

  Life & fun · 2025 · trytender.app

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  Ten years of running every day, visualized▲958

  Today marks ten years, 3653 consecutive days, of running at least one mile every day under the USRSA rules [1]. To celebrate, I built an interactive dashboard that turns a decade of GPX files into charts you can explore. Running has truly changed my life: I've made lifelong friends, explored beautiful places, and more importantly invested into my own health and fitness, which I'm starting to see the positive benefits as I get older. The stack is pretty simple: a NextJS app, with a Postgres database to keep all my running data, and all the stats are pre-computed and cached in Redis, so I…

  Dev tools · 2025 · nodaysoff.run

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  Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others▲935

  Made this website as an exercise in vibe-coding and GCP. It was posted about a few times around the internet, on sites like Morning Brew (https://www.morningbrew.com/issues/business-buzzkill), MetaFilter (https://www.metafilter.com/209703/Draw-A-Fish), boingboing.net, etc. I think it's cute! I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas, and then anything that doesn't hit the 63% confidence score gets sent to a mod queue, a vibe-coded fish-tinder…

  AI · 2025 · drawafish.com

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  Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act▲862

  Hi HN - I made a site that takes a UK postcode, grabs the local MP's information and generates an AI mockup of what their ID might look like. It's a small, silly protest at the stupidity of the Online Safety Act that just came into force. edit - My open AI credits got hugged to death, please use a known postcode (like one from Kier Starmer's constituency, WC2B6NH) in the meantime.

  AI · 2025 · use-their-id.com