Indie Chains
List your site free, build relevant links with approved founders, and receive context-rich requests without spam, generic swaps, or cold...
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Description
List your site free, build relevant links with approved founders, and receive context-rich requests without spam, generic swaps, or cold outreach.
About Indie Chains
What is Indie Chains?
Indie Chains is a software collaboration network for indie site operators seeking relevant editorial placements.
What Indie Chains does
It combines site review, discovery, contextual requests, messaging, and collaboration tracking. Free publishers receive requests through a verified-banner listing, while premium members with approved sites can browse the private network and initiate proposals.
Who Indie Chains is for
It is for independent founders, product teams, blogs, newsletters, tools, directories, and resource sites with real audiences and reviewable pages.
How Indie Chains works
Users create an account and add a site, publishing free with a visible banner or submitting for premium manual review. Members judge the fit of a target page, discuss a contextual proposal, and confirm a collaboration only when both owners agree.
Key features
- Free publishers can receive and complete collaboration requests.
- Premium discovery shows eligible sites and placement preferences.
- Sending requests requires a manually approved site.
- Request threads keep messages and collaboration history together.
- Request credits limit initiation volume.
- Site owners can accept, reject, or question a proposal.
- Banner compliance is checked daily.
Pricing
As listed on indiechains.com, checked 13 October 2026. Prices can change; see the site for current terms.
- Free publisher: $0 with a verified banner.
Facts from indiechains.com, checked 13 October 2026
- Members control what is published on their own sites.
- Software membership covers discovery, requests, messaging, and moderation.
Written from Indie Chains's own website (Homepage, Pricing, Features, About). The maker can claim this listing to edit it.
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Frequently asked questions
What does a free publisher need?
Every listed site needs a visible verified Indie Chains banner, with no subscription or credit card required.
Can free members start requests?
Free publishers can reply and complete received requests, but cannot browse the private network or initiate requests.
Does paying automatically approve a site?
Premium senders still need a manually approved site before they can send requests.
Does membership guarantee rankings?
The workflow and About pages say membership does not guarantee links, rankings, traffic, or business results.
What happens when a banner check fails?
The pricing page describes a 7-day recovery window after a daily compliance check fails.