Live data · 2026-06-11
Indie Startup Statistics 2026
A live snapshot of the indie startup landscape, drawn from the 517active startups in the Startup Spotlight directory. Numbers update on every request — what you see is what's true right now, as of June 11, 2026.
Startups by category
Other leads the directory with 104 startups (20% of the total). Second is Developer Tools (85).
Founded year cohort
Distribution of when listed founders self-report their startup was founded. The 2024 cohort is the largest with 8 startups.
Team-size distribution
The vast majority of listed startups report a team of 1–10 — confirming the directory's indie/solo-founder positioning. 32% are in this band.
How these stats are computed
- Source: every active startup in the Startup Spotlight directory at request time.
- Counts exclude pending, rejected, and unverified listings.
- Founder count is deduped by Twitter handle, then GitHub handle, then name.
- Team-size and founded-year are founder-reported during submission.
- The page is dynamically rendered — the numbers above are accurate as of the moment you loaded this page.
Cite or reuse this data
This page is published under CC-BY 4.0. Cite as: "Startup Spotlight indie startup statistics, 2026-06-11", https://startupspotlight.co/stats.
For machine-readable access to the underlying directory data, see /llms-full.txt.