A growth network for independent products
Get discovered through everyday recommendations. Launch with a Sidewave-curated event, bringing together live demos, meetups and social promotion.
Choose either, or take part in both.
matchesTwo ways to take part
Other sitesEvery day
Your spot shows indie products that fit your visitors. In return, Sidewave shows yours to people on other sites with a similar audience and language.
What you get follows the views you gave in the last 14 days. Delivery depends on real visits.Launch Day
Sidewave selects the projects and brings together online demos, in-person meetups and social promotion. You bring the product. We organize the launch.
Each edition has its own format and program. No recommendation spot required.How it works
Share your link and tell us what you’re building. Add your project just once.
Connect a recommendation spot, or share your Launch Day interest. No spot required to apply for an event.
Recommendations match automatically. Sidewave curates the projects, events and promotion for Launch Day.
Yes. After your site is verified and reviewed, Sidewave gives new projects a small starter trial from available traffic. After that, the views you give shape the views you get.
Other reviewed indie products that match your audience and language. You set a daily limit, block projects you don’t want, and can pause your spot at any time.
No individual swaps to arrange. Sidewave handles daily matching and coordinates event promotion. We never automatically post to your social accounts.
It’s one small script, under 4 KB. It adds a sandboxed frame, 164 px tall by default, that can’t read your page. Sidewave sets no cookies, and the frame sends no referrer. To count views it uses your site’s address and a random ID that expires within 24 hours. If nothing matches, the frame removes itself.
Start with a product URL. Daily recommendations need site verification and an embed. For Launch Day, share your interest first; event applications need a verified, reviewed project, but no embed. Apps and newsletters can join with a website or landing page.