built.indie
Launch your indie product with one URL. https://built.indie.pit.world (on Moshpit DNS: https://built.indie)
Paste a URL and built.indie reads the homepage the way a careful person would: the name, tagline and description, the logo, the card image, screenshots from the page plus one we take ourselves with headless Chrome, YouTube/Vimeo/Loom/mp4 videos, social accounts, llms.txt, the web manifest and JSON-LD. It also reads the LogicSRC files a site may serve about itself:
| file | spec | we show |
|---|
/.well-known/opensite.json | OpenSite | what the site says it is; wins over what we scrape; index.allow: false is honoured |
/.well-known/openprofile.md | OpenProfile | the company (Kind: organization) and its accounts |
/.well-known/openstack.md | OpenStack.md | "Built with" |
/.well-known/opensaas.json | OpenSaaS | plans, trial, and the cancel page |
/.well-known/openicon.json | OpenIcon | that it publishes an icon set |
Then it goes on today's board. People upvote (one per visitor). The board resets at midnight UTC; yesterday's winners get "#1 Product of the day" on their page and badge.
Free to launch, no account. Anyone can launch any site. To edit a listing, sign in (an emailed link) and claim it. The easy way is the badge: put <img src="https://built.indie.pit.world/images.svg?id=<id>"> on the homepage, where the id is unique to that listing and your account (the claim page, claim.md, the API and the CLI hand you the full snippet). Finding it claims the listing for you and earns the followed link and the ✓ in one step. Or add a DNS TXT record, _built-indie.<domain> → built-indie-verify=<token>. (Badges placed earlier as /badge/<slug>.svg?claim=<token> still claim.) A signed-in submitter can edit until the owner claims it.
Viral bits: a live badge with the upvote count (/badge/<slug>.svg) that turns a link back into a followed link and a ✓ once we see it on the homepage, share buttons, an OG card per product, RSS, and an optional paid Featured slot: CoinPay's hosted checkout, where the buyer picks any coin or PayPal.
Tags. Every listing is tagged with what its homepage declares (opensite.json tags/keywords, <meta name="keywords">, article:tag, JSON-LD keywords, applicationCategory and genre, manifest categories). A site that declares none gets up to four topics read from its own name, tagline and description (src/tags.ts), and listings launched before that are backfilled on start. Owners edit them on the listing. Browse at /tags and /t/<tag>; GET /api/v1/tags, GET /api/v1/products?tag=<tag>, builtindie tags [tag], MCP list_tags and tagged.
Invite program. Every account has an invite link, /i/<code> (on /invite, /me, builtindie invite, GET /api/v1/invites, MCP my_invites). When a new member who signed up through it gets their first listing live, the inviter earns a credit: a free Featured week (the same slot that costs $19 in crypto). Spend it on any listing you own from /invite, the listing's page, builtindie credit <slug>, POST /api/v1/products/<slug>/credit or MCP feature_with_credit. Once per new member, never yourself; the code rides in the magic link, so it counts when the mail opens in another browser; an admin takedown of the listing takes back an unspent credit. The inviter gets an email when a credit lands.
Credit codes and invite codes (0.7.0). A credit code (CR-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX, @profullstack/redeem-credits, unit featured_days) adds Featured days to a member's balance: "Have a code?" on /me, POST /api/v1/redeem, builtindie redeem <code>, MCP redeem_code. The days go on any live listing you own through the same featured_until a paid week extends (/me, the listing's Feature card, POST /api/v1/products/<slug>/feature-days {"days":n}, builtindie feature-days <slug> <n>, MCP feature_with_days). Every member also has 3 single-use invite codes (@profullstack/affiliates) on /invite#codes, POST /api/v1/invites, builtindie invite-code, MCP create_invite: someone new who signs up through /i/INV-… gives both people 2 Featured days, and the sign-up counts once in the invite program above (same invites row). ?ref=<your invite code> on any page is your invite link too (the same bi_ref cookie, first touch). Mint codes on the server:
cd /opt/built.indie && /root/.bun/bin/bun $(readlink -f node_modules/.bin/redeem-credits) mint \
--db /root/.local/share/built-indie/built-indie.db --unit featured_days --amount 7 --label "for Ada"
Webhooks (0.8.0). Makers get a webhook callback for their own listings, on @profullstack/webhooks: product.launched, product.claimed, product.verified, product.featured (data.via = payment, invite_credit or featured_days), product.upvoted, comment.created, review.created (both only from someone other than the owner) and invite.earned. Each goes to the listing's owner (the account that claimed it, else the member who launched it); an anonymous launch has nobody to tell. Bodies are CloudEvents 1.0 (data.product = id, slug, name, url, page, votes, featured_until), signed per Standard Webhooks (webhook-id, webhook-timestamp, webhook-signature), retried from a durable outbox (webhook_* tables in the same database) for about three days. Manage them on /me#webhooks, at /api/v1/webhooks with your bi_ key (list, add, test, rotate, remove, delivery log), builtindie webhooks / builtindie webhook add <url> [events…], or MCP create_webhook, list_webhooks, test_webhook, rotate_webhook_secret, delete_webhook, webhook_deliveries.
Leaderboard. /leaderboard ranks the top inviters (week, month, all time) with badges, on @profullstack/leaderboard. It projects the invites table, so there is no second ledger; badges live in the lb_ tables of the same database. The package also serves /leaderboard.json, /leaderboard/invites.json|.xml, a share card per member at /leaderboard/u/<id>, and a widget any site can embed (/leaderboard/embed.js). Members appear by the name they set on /invite, else as "Maker of "; never by email.
Browse and search. A search box in the header of every page (press /; it suggests launches as you type) opens /search: a facet rail in the style of r4ck.dev with counts for category, tags, when it launched, what it has (✓ verified, claimed, video, llms.txt, OpenSite/OpenProfile/OpenStack/OpenSaaS), what it is built with (OpenStack.md) and maker, plus sort and active-filter chips. Values in one facet are OR'd, facets are AND'd, and each facet counts as if only it changed. Tags are what the page or the maker said; categories are a fixed set of twenty-one read from a listing's tags, name, tagline and description (src/browse.ts), so every launch is filed even with no tags. /c/<category> and /t/<tag> are indexable pages for one filter; the same query is GET /api/v1/search (products + facets), GET /api/v1/categories, builtindie search … --category ai --has verified --facets, and the MCP search / list_categories tools.
Every product is published back as an OpenSite record (/p/<slug>/opensite.json) and an OpenProfile (/p/<slug>/openprofile.md); makers are OpenProfiles too (/makers/<id>/openprofile.md). Icons are the OpenIcon reference set.
Surfaces
curl -fsSL https://built.indie.pit.world/install.sh | sh
builtindie # TUI: today's board, ←/→ boards, v upvote, l launch
builtindie launch yourproduct.com
builtindie top week
builtindie search crm --category ai --has verified # filters, as on /search
builtindie show linear
builtindie vote linear
builtindie preview any.site --json
BUILTINDIE_KEY=bi_… builtindie claim linear # prints your badge and the TXT record, then checks them
BUILTINDIE_KEY=bi_… builtindie edit linear --tagline "…"
BUILTINDIE_KEY=bi_… builtindie invite # your invite link and free Featured credits
BUILTINDIE_KEY=bi_… builtindie credit linear # spend one: Featured for a week
BUILTINDIE_KEY=bi_… builtindie redeem CR-… # a credit code: Featured days
BUILTINDIE_KEY=bi_… builtindie invite-code # one of your 3 single-use invites
BUILTINDIE_KEY=bi_… builtindie feature linear # or pay: a CoinPay checkout link (any coin or PayPal)
claude mcp add builtindie -- bunx @profullstack/builtindie mcp
The web app is a PWA (manifest + service worker). The JSON API is under /api/v1 and documented at /help; the OpenSite index calls are GET /api/v1/sites?url= and POST /api/v1/sites.
Run your own
bun install
BUILTINDIE_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32) bun src/server.ts # http://127.0.0.1:8798
bun test
| env | |
|---|
BUILTINDIE_KEY | required: keys vote hashes and claim tokens |
BUILTINDIE_ORIGIN | public address (default https://built.indie.pit.world) |
BUILTINDIE_DATA | where the database and pictures live (default ~/.local/share/built-indie) |
BUILTINDIE_ADMIN_KEY | bearer that may take a listing down |
RESEND_API_KEY, MAIL_FROM | sign-in mail; without them the link is logged |
COINPAY_API_KEY, COINPAY_BUSINESS_ID, COINPAY_WEBHOOK_SECRET | Featured payments: a CoinPay hosted checkout session per purchase, settled by the signed webhook at /hooks/coinpay |
FEATURE_USD, FEATURE_DAYS | price and length of Featured (19, 7) |
BUILTINDIE_CHROME | Chrome path, or off; BUILTINDIE_SCREENSHOTS=off skips screenshots |
CRAWLPROOF_SITE, CRAWLPROOF_AD_SLOT | analytics and ads; off turns either off |
Production runs on dev2 under bin/install.sh (OpenInstall); every merge to main deploys. See OpenStack.md.
MIT. Part of the Moshpit ring.
Karma (0.6.0)
Signed-in members earn karma for launching (+10), upvoting (+1, 20 a day), reviewing (+5, stars and 30+ characters), commenting (+2, 10 a day), sharing (+1, 5 a day), claiming (+5), a verified badge (+5) and an invited maker who launches (+25); listing owners get +1 per upvote and +2 per review from members. Acting on your own listing earns nothing; admin imports earn nothing. Every 500 karma (KARMA_PER_CREDIT) grants a free Featured week, spent like an invite credit. The ledger is append-only (karma_events, dedupe key per fact; reversals are negative rows). /leaderboard shows the karma board (default) and the inviters board; GET /api/v1/karma, GET /api/v1/leaderboard?board=karma&period=week; CLI karma, leaderboard, comment, review; MCP my_karma, leaderboard, comment, review. Same rules as pwamart.com.
Sign in with CoinPay
Set COINPAY_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID and COINPAY_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET (an OAuth client at coinpayportal.com with redirect <origin>/api/v1/coinpay/callback) and /login and /me show "Sign in with CoinPay" (OIDC, code + PKCE S256). Accounts link by CoinPay sub in user_identities, never by email.
