{
  "id": 9633218,
  "title": "Indie makers build Productivity apps. The visits go to Food & Drink and Finance.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/indie-makers-build-productivity-apps-the-visits-go-to-food-drink-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-24T21:17:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/dzuamaafk/indie-makers-build-productivity-apps-the-visits-go-to-food-drink-and-finance-3mbm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Indie app developers categorize their creations based on how many apps they have and how much attention those apps receive. The Indie App Landscape report, as of 2026-09-24, reveals that the most popular categories are Health & Fitness with 41 apps, Productivity with 31 apps, Lifestyle with 25 apps, Utilities with 19 apps, Games with 19 apps, Education with 16 apps, and Finance with 13 apps. Food & Drink and Finance have the fewest apps in the top eight categories, but they also receive the most visits, with 331 and 320 visits respectively. Health & Fitness leads both the number of apps and visits lists. Productivity, despite having 31 apps, ranks sixth in visits with 89. The report emphasizes that a category with a large number of apps but low visits indicates a crowded market with many competitors. Conversely, a category with fewer apps but high visits indicates a smaller market with less competition. This information can guide indie developers in choosing which category to focus on next.",
  "summary": "There are two easy ways to count an indie app category: how many apps are in it, and how much attention those apps actually get. I assumed they would roughly line up. On the live snapshot I looked at, they do not, and the gap is the most useful thing I found for anyone deciding what to build next. All figures below come from one public source, the Indie App Landscape report on Censuus , as it…",
  "key_points": [
    "Productivity apps have 31 apps, ranking sixth in visits with 89",
    "Food & Drink and Finance categories receive most visits (331 and 320)",
    "Health & Fitness leads in both number of apps (41) and visits"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}