Own Indie Project Showcase.

What you'd own.

Every artifact below transfers to your accounts on day one. The whole engine.

• ●Product Hunt launch strategy and Twitter/X outreach playbook templates
• ●Landing page design, copy, and brand identity assets
• ●Financial model covering Year 1 GTM and pricing tiers
• ●Freemium product architecture with analytics, featured slots, feedback prioritization
• ●Founder positioning and messaging framework for indie maker audience
• ●Cold start community seeding strategy and creator acquisition playbook

What Roll Digital builds for you.

Custom scope to take Indie Project Showcase from MVP shell to operating business.

• ▸Production backend on FastAPI with Postgres and async job queues
• ▸Project showcase interface with image upload, gallery view, and filtering
• ▸Email plus Google OAuth authentication with email verification workflow
• ▸Real-time feedback submission and collaborative commenting system for projects
• ▸Analytics dashboard tracking project views, feedback volume, and tier retention
• ▸Stripe billing integration across freemium and three paid tiers
• ▸Automated email sequences for onboarding, feedback notifications, and upgrade prompts

Why this could work.

The indie maker market is validated and growing. 480,000 active developers ship side projects monthly, and Twitter/Reddit overflow with showcase requests. Product Hunt provides a credible launch vector into this audience. The freemium model with tiered analytics and featured placement mirrors Dev.to's proven playbook. At even 0.5% paid conversion, Year 1 economics work. Your GTM already has a traction engine in place.

What you'd risk.

Developer communities strongly prefer free platforms. Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, and Devpost offer identical features at zero cost with decade long SEO advantages and millions of users. The cold start marketplace problem is structural: projects without viewers won't attract creators; creators won't join if few projects exist. Churn before paywall is a known pattern. Users post once, get feedback, disappear. Reaching meaningful paid conversion rates requires solving network effects first, which remains unproven.

Who this fits.

This fits a solo SaaS founder or growth marketer with an existing indie maker community, email list, or Twitter following. You need operational discipline, willingness to manually seed creators for months, and team bandwidth for platform ops. Best case: you're a former developer with credibility in indie circles and contacts who'll ship projects on Day 1. Cold start is easier with warm introductions than with acquisition spend.

Timeline.

From contract signing to operating business.

1. Day 1
   Source code access, founder handover call, finance and GTM doc transfer
2. Week 1
   Design audit and technical architecture review completed with team
3. Week 3
   Backend API and Google OAuth live in production environment
4. Week 6
   Stripe billing, analytics dashboard, and email sequences fully functional
5. Day 90
   Platform live publicly, initial Product Hunt launch campaign underway

Pricing.

Three ways in, depending on how much you want to build yourself.