Awesome Indie

Awesome Indie is a community‑driven launchpad that showcases the best indie tech products launching each day. The platform features a daily‑updated list of indie tools, apps, and services across categories such as AI, design, development, productivity, and more. Users can discover, upvote, and comment on products, while makers can submit their launches for free, connect with a growing audience, and access analytics. The site also offers a Pro subscription for enhanced features and runs regular promotions such as seasonal discounts.

Awesome Indie is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Indie, Launchpad, Marketplace, Tech, and Community.

Awesome Indie’s developer surface includes support, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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17.5/100 emerging Agent 28/100 agent aware Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 API 1 MCP Servers

Indie Launchpad Marketplace Tech Community Product

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 17.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 4.8 — up to +19.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points

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Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Awesome Indie API

Programmatic access to Awesome Indie platform data.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Awesome Indie MCP Server

Remote MCP server at awesomeindie.com.

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Awesomeindie Com Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Awesomeindie Com Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Awesomeindie Com Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Awesomeindie Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Awesomeindie Com Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: awesomeindie-com
name: Awesome Indie
description: Awesome Indie is a community‑driven launchpad that showcases the best indie tech products launching each day.
  The platform features a daily‑updated list of indie tools, apps, and services across categories such as AI, design, development,
  productivity, and more. Users can discover, upvote, and comment on products, while makers can submit their launches for
  free, connect with a growing audience, and access analytics. The site also offers a Pro subscription for enhanced features
  and runs regular promotions such as seasonal discounts.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: low
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://awesomeindie.com/images/app/icon.png
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/awesomeindie-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-02'
modified: '2026-11-02'
tags:
- Indie
- Launchpad
- Marketplace
- Tech
- Community
- Product
tags_raw:
- Indie
- Launchpad
- Marketplace
- Tech
- Community
- Products
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/awesomeindie-com-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/awesomeindie-com-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/awesomeindie-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/awesomeindie-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/awesomeindie-com-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://awesomeindie.com/legal/terms
- type: Support
  url: https://awesomeindie.com/support
- type: Security
  url: https://awesomeindie.com/category/security
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://awesomeindie.com/legal/privacy
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://awesomeindie.com/category/news
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/awesomeindie-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://awesomeindie.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://awesomeindie.com/pricing
apis:
- name: Awesome Indie API
  description: Programmatic access to Awesome Indie platform data.
  humanURL: https://awesomeindie.com/
  baseURL: https://api.awesomeindie.com
  aid: awesomeindie-com:awesome-indie-api
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: The provider does not publish any OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, or WSDL specifications.
  evidence:
  - url: https://awesomeindie.com/api/mcp
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-11-02'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

Awesome Indie API — frequently asked questions

Does Awesome Indie have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Awesome Indie, including Awesome Indie API.

How do I authenticate with the Awesome Indie API?

Awesome Indie documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Awesomeindie Com Authentication.

Does Awesome Indie have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Awesome Indie: Remote MCP server at awesomeindie.com.

Is the Awesome Indie API ready for AI agents?

Awesome Indie has a Kin Score of 17.5 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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