Get Discovered with Builders Local & Map
Find your local indie hacker scene—and let it find you
Building remotely is great until you realise there are probably ten other indie hackers within walking distance you've never met. Builders Local fixes that. It's a map, a service marketplace, and a local network rolled into one—with zero platform fees on the service side.
Here's how to use it whether you're looking for clients, looking for help, or just looking for a coworking partner.
In this guide
What Builders Local is
Builders Local is the geographic side of the platform. It combines two surfaces:
Local Listings
A classifieds-style space where builders can share local offers, events, housing, coworking, and other location-based opportunities.
Map
An interactive map of builders and local listings around you. Live at /map.
These surfaces work together: browse the map, find builders near you, and jump straight into a profile or nearby listing.
Categories you can post in
Local supports a handful of categories so the surface stays useful instead of becoming a Craigslist-style firehose:
How to use local discovery
Add your location to your profile, browse the map, and use local listings to find builders, meetups, coworking, and other nearby opportunities.
Set your location
Use city-level location so nearby builders can discover you without exposing your exact address.
Browse by radius
Start with nearby results, then widen the radius when you want to explore a broader founder scene.
Open promising profiles
Use public profiles to understand what someone is building before you reach out.
Look for listings
Local listings collect opportunities, events, coworking, housing, and practical requests in one place.
Reach out thoughtfully
Lead with context from their project or profile so the first message feels useful.
Discovery: nearby & map view
Two ways to find what's around you. Both respect your current location radius.
Nearby search
Filter the feed by 5, 10, 25, or 50 km from your current location. Works for builders and listings.
Map view
An interactive pin map. Pan to a city, click a pin, and open the builder profile or listing directly.
Tip:Travelling? Open the map from your destination city before you arrive. You'll often find at least one builder happy to grab coffee.
Stripe Connect & 100% earnings
Builders Local is intentionally fee-free for sellers. We don't take a cut of services posted on Local—you keep 100% of the payout (Stripe's standard processing fees still apply).
- Payments route through your own Stripe Connect account—funds go directly to you, not us.
- No platform commission on services. Compare to Fiverr (20%) or Upwork (10%).
- Buyers see a clean checkout, you get the order ID at
/orders/<id>to track delivery.
Privacy: how location is handled
We take location privacy seriously. Pins on the public map are intentionally fuzzy.
Coordinates offset by ~10 miles
We never expose your exact coordinates to other users. Pins are randomly offset by up to ~10 miles in any direction.
City-level display
Your public profile shows a city, not an address. You control whether to show city at all.
Opt-in, not opt-out
Location features only activate when you explicitly grant browser geolocation or set a city in your profile.
Get on the map.
Open the map and see who's building near you.