Build or Skip is a product opportunity research platform, mainly aimed at indie developers, startup teams, and website owners. Its core purpose is to help users discover existing products with commercial signals before they start building a product, thereby avoiding spending months validating demand from scratch.
[Main Capabilities] The platform provides a variety of rankings and research resources:
- New product revenue rankings: discover sites with payment signals among newly registered domains, compare site overviews and categories, and filter new products worth researching. Can filter by product field, payment channel, DR, registration date, and payment signal, and compare six-month growth momentum. The official page mentions that revenue rankings cover 50k+, tip rankings cover 4,900+, and backlink rankings cover 600+.
- Tip revenue rankings: compare publicly visible Buy Me a Coffee tip amounts, active months, and six-month amount trends.
- Review backlink library: view collected review articles by domain and review date, and open the original pages to evaluate them yourself.
- AI tool backlink library: browse AI product directories and resource sites, including submission URLs, submission methods, fee requirements, and last checked dates.
- Site data query: query DR, domain registration, monthly traffic, and structured homepage data through a single account API.
- MCP access: use supported AI clients to discover current datasets, find products, and read site snapshots. Paid users can make unlimited MCP calls.
[How to Use] Users can start with a free preview and first view some rankings and signals. Once they find signals worth tracking, they can upgrade their subscription. The subscription provides the following benefits: monitor up to 20 or 50 public sitemaps, unlock all published revenue rankings, unlock the full tip revenue rankings, access the full review backlink library and AI tool backlink library, unlock all filtering and sorting dimensions, unlimited MCP calls, the VIP member community, and API access (unlimited queries for DR, registration, traffic, and site data). Prices are in USD, and partner prices renew at the same rate for the duration of the subscription. The official notice states that Standard Pro pricing will increase after the next feature release, and subscribing now locks in the currently displayed price.
[Use Cases] Suitable for indie developers, startup teams, and website owners to discover candidate products with commercial signals before building a product, research competitors and growth trends, and based on this make Build (worth testing), Watch (needs more evidence), or Skip decisions.
[Data Timeliness and Limitations] Revenue rankings are reported by calendar month; Comments and AI tool external link resources are updated daily; for other site data, the relevant dates will be displayed on the page. The official statement clearly states that payment signals are used only for opportunity research and do not represent verified orders, revenue, or customer numbers. If a user owns a website or is authorized to represent a website, they can send an email to support@buildorskip.dev, and after verification, inaccurate information can be corrected or eligible websites can be removed from the public ranking. At the bottom of the page, "September 2026 New Site Revenue Ranking" is displayed.
[Information not yet provided] Specific subscription prices, complete limitation details for each tier, the specific scope of the free preview, the API's technical documentation and usage methods, the specific list of AI clients supported by MCP, etc., are not fully explained in the materials.