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Monthly data posts on what new websites are built with, and which vendors are quietly winning.
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Around the World in WordPress: The State of Indie Launches, September 2026
5 October 2026
WordPress is 5% of launch-board launches and 16% of the sites that went live in September. We compared the two, then looked at how WordPress changes from country to country.
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The Average Launch: The State of Indie Launches, August 2026
5 September 2026
We averaged 28,760 launch screenshots to see what indie launch pages have in common. The layouts look remarkably similar, but the dark pages held a surprise.
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It's a Small Web After All: The State of Indie Launches, July 2026
3 August 2026
Does a founder's country change what they build with? We crossed the tech stack against estimated country of origin. The framework layer is the same everywhere. The payment layer is not.
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You're So Mainstream: The State of Indie Launches, June 2026
2 July 2026
How developer tools cross over into the indie web. We mapped what fronts and runs 18,130 June launches, then found that who adopts each piece of infrastructure tells you how new it is.
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Crouching WordPress, Hidden Vercel: The State of Indie Launches, May 2026
1 June 2026
What 17,652 indie product launches in May 2026 looked like under the hood. Strip Vercel out of the data and you find a fundamentally different indie web, different stack, different analytics, different hosting picture.
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The State of Indie Launches: April 2026
4 May 2026
What every indie product launch in April 2026 actually looks like under the hood. Stack concentration, AI-builder market share, vendor displacement, and what we found across the month.
