Hey everyone! 👋 I’m incredibly excited to launch Loadbar today. We all know the struggle: you spend weeks or months building a great product, but getting those first real visitors is brutal. Ads are too expensive for bootstrapped startups, and SEO takes months to kick in. I wanted to create a fairer growth channel where indie hackers and founders could simply help each other out. That’s how Loadbar was born. Here is how it works: Trade space for traffic: You paste one line of code to display a small, 36px bar on your site featuring another founder's startup. Get promoted back: In return, your startup gets pushed across the rest of the network. Zero friction: It’s 100% free forever, loads asynchronously (no impact on your page speed), and reaches an audience of actual founders and early adopters. I’d love to hear your feedback! Would you be open to putting a 36px widget on your site to get free, targeted traffic? What features would you like to see added to the analytics dashboard? I'll be hanging out in the comments all day to answer any questions. Let's grow together! 🚀

Loadbar

— Founders helping founders get their first traffic

— Founders helping founders get their first traffic