What website is this?
Build or Skip is a product-research site for indie developers and startup teams. It puts public payment signals, tip records, site profiles, and backlink resources in one place so you can see which products look commercially active, whether they are still growing, and whether to build, watch, or skip. The pages state clearly that these are research signals, not verified orders, revenue, or user counts.
Key Features
- New-site and product revenue rankings: filter by payment signals, channels, DR, registration date, and roughly six months of momentum.
- Tip ranking: public Buy Me a Coffee amounts, active months, and amount trends.
- Comment-backlink and AI-directory backlink libraries, with submission URL, method, fee flag, and last check date.
- API for DR, domain registration, monthly traffic, and structured homepage data.
- Supported AI clients can query datasets and site snapshots over MCP; paid users have unlimited MCP calls.
- Revenue rankings follow calendar months; other data shows its date on the page.
Use Cases
- An indie developer checks whether a new domain already shows payment signals before building, instead of guessing demand from zero.
- A startup team compares six-month momentum by category to separate "still rising" from "one hot month."
- A site operator uses comment and AI-directory libraries to verify which page to submit, how, and whether it costs money.
- Someone who wants DR, registration, and traffic snapshots from a script uses the account API or MCP.
Who is it for?
- Indie developers, startup teams, and site owners who want public commercial signals before spending engineering time.
- People doing competitor and growth research who can treat rankings as leads, not an audit.
- A poor fit for anyone who treats payment signals as verified revenue or order counts: the site repeats that disclaimer.
- A poor fit for anyone who wants a guaranteed money-making idea list and will not open the original site to check.
How It Compares to Similar Tools?
It does not replace interviews, payment dashboards, or books. It only gathers public signals into filterable rankings and libraries. Compared with app-store charts or a backlink directory alone, it combines payment signals, tips, domain profiles, and directory-submission leads. A free preview shows part of the data. Pro is listed at $19 per month, with a note that the standard price may rise after the next feature release. Listed site owners can request a correction or removal.
FAQs
Q: Are payment signals the same as real revenue?
A: No. The site says they are for opportunity research and do not represent verified orders, revenue, or customer counts. RDAP registration dates are also not launch dates.
Q: What does the Buy Me a Coffee ranking show?
A: The site's framing: if people can use a product for free and still tip, treat that as a public signal of demand and recognized value, then keep researching. It is not a financial statement.
Q: What if a listing is wrong?
A: The site owner or an authorized representative can email support@buildorskip.dev. After verification, information is corrected or the site is removed from public rankings.
