The Knowledge Layer for AI Agents

Anyone can create now. AI is making that happen. IndieStack makes sure your AI knows what’s already been built — before it starts from scratch.

828+ creations | 539 open-source | 289 SaaS | 25 categories

Creation is exploding. Discovery hasn’t caught up.

A teacher builds a flashcard app. A musician ships a beat sequencer. A developer releases an auth library. A designer launches a vector editor. AI is turning everyone into a creator.

But the AI helping the next person build a flashcard app doesn’t know the first one exists. It starts from scratch, every time. Thousands of tokens, thousands of duplicated efforts.

G2 and Capterra serve enterprise procurement teams, not people in the middle of building something. There’s no knowledge layer between AI agents and indie creators. IndieStack is that layer.

If someone made it, it belongs here

The only constraint is “indie-built.” Not “developer tool.” Not “SaaS.” Anything an independent creator has shipped.

Authentication

Hanko

Passkey-first auth, open source

SaaS

Games

Veloren

Open-world multiplayer RPG in Rust

Code

Newsletters

Buttondown

The easiest way to run a newsletter

SaaS

Creative Tools

Penpot

Open-source design and prototyping

Code

Analytics

Plausible Analytics

Privacy-friendly analytics without cookies

SaaS

Learning

Exercism

Learn programming with mentored exercises

SaaS

One command. Your AI knows what exists.


                    claude mcp add indiestack -- uvx --from indiestack indiestack-mcp

Or for Cursor / Windsurf:


                        {"command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "indiestack", "indiestack-mcp"]}

Search everything

Your AI searches 828+ creations across 25 categories instantly

Build vs. reinvent

Should you build this or use what someone already made? AI-assisted decision

Learns your taste

Recommendations personalize as your agent learns what you like

Works everywhere

Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot. One install, every agent

For anyone looking for something

You don’t have to build anything. IndieStack isn’t just for developers and makers. If you’re looking for a flashcard app, a game engine, a newsletter platform, invoicing software — browse the catalog and find something an indie creator has already built.

Ask your AI. If you use Claude, Cursor, or any AI assistant with our MCP server, just tell it what you need. “Find me a privacy-friendly analytics tool.” “What indie games are built in Rust?” It searches IndieStack and brings back real options.

Support indie creators by using what they’ve made. Every click, every user, every recommendation tells the creator their work matters. That’s the whole point — connecting people with creations that deserve to be found.

For people who build things

Stop reinventing. Your AI checks 828+ indie creations before building from scratch. If someone already built it, you’ll know.

Better than generated. A creation maintained by someone who cares about the problem beats AI-generated code with no maintenance plan.

Discovery at the right moment. Not browsing a directory. Your AI finds the right creation at the exact moment you need it — mid-flow, mid-build.

For people who’ve built something

A new kind of distribution. Your creation gets recommended at the exact moment someone needs it — by the AI they’re already talking to.

Reach people you’ll never meet. 12 GitHub stars or zero Twitter followers doesn’t matter. If your creation solves the problem, the AI recommends it.

No algorithm to game. No ads, no SEO, no pay-to-rank. List once, get recommended whenever someone needs what you built.

Your work outlives your marketing. Recommended next month, next year, to people you’ll never know. Your creation becomes part of the shared knowledge.

The creation explosion is coming

AI is making creation accessible to everyone. A teacher who couldn’t code last year is shipping learning apps. A musician is building audio tools. A small business owner is creating the exact software they need.

This explosion is just starting. As AI gets better, the number of indie creators will grow by orders of magnitude. And every one of them will be using AI agents that need to know what already exists.

IndieStack is building the shared memory now — so that when the explosion hits, the knowledge layer is already there. Every creation indexed. Every agent connected. No one reinvents what someone already built.

Built by two uni students in Cardiff who see where this is going.