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The Indie Hacker Tech Stack in 2026: What 2,253 Live Products Run On

We read the public pages of 2,253 live indie products: 41.9% run Next.js, 53% use Tailwind CSS, and 19% run the exact Next.js, Tailwind and Vercel stack.

  • Next.js runs 41.9% of the 2,253 live indie products we could read, against 3.8% of all websites in W3Techs' November 2026 count.
  • Tailwind CSS is on 53.0% of them. Bootstrap, which W3Techs finds on 12.9% of all websites, is on 3.6%.

Diogo Capela11 min read

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Indie Product Domains in 2026: .ai Has Peaked and .io Is Fading

We parsed the domains of 5,098 live indie products: .com holds 46%, .ai peaked at 17% of 2025 submissions, and .io fell from 13% to 6% since 2021.

Diogo Capela13 min read