Build or Skip
Build or Skip: find products already making money before you build
- Pricing:
- Free plan
Overview
Build or Skip is a product-opportunity research directory built for independent developers and startup teams. It brings together public payment signals, tipping data, site intelligence and backlink resources, ranked month by month, so you can see which products already show commercial activity, which are growing, and which keep winning—before you waste months proving demand from scratch.
It offers a new-site revenue ranking, a product revenue ranking, a tip revenue ranking, plus a comment backlink library and an AI-tool backlink library, with filters by product area, payment channel, DR, registration date and payment signals, and API and MCP access. Signals are for opportunity research only—not verified orders or revenue. Start with a free preview and upgrade to Standard or Pro when a signal is worth following.
Core capabilities
- Payment-signal rankings
- monthly public payment signals reveal products already making money and growing.
- New-site revenue ranking
- spot newly registered domains that already show payment signals.
- Tip revenue ranking
- compare public Buy Me a Coffee tips, active months and six-month trends.
- Backlink libraries
- comment and AI-tool backlink libraries with submission URL, fees and reciprocal-link rules.
- Multi-dimensional filters
- by product area, payment channel, DR, registration date and payment signals.
- API and MCP
- query site data and published datasets through an account API or MCP client.
- Free preview to start
- browse preview for free; upgrade when a signal is worth following.
Use cases
- Validate demand for a new idea using payment signals before building
- Compare revenue momentum and staying power across products to pick a direction
- Collect AI-tool directory and comment backlink submission resources
- Feed site signals into your own research workflow via API or MCP
Who it's for
Independent developers, Startup teams and founders, Indie hackers and product researchers, Site owners and competitor analysts
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