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dewey. bookmark manager: $12K a month, self-reported in 2023
dewey. saves, syncs, searches, organizes, and exports social media bookmarks from multiple accounts. Its $12K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of January 2023.
What it actually sells
dewey. is a bookmark management tool for saving, syncing, searching, organizing, and exporting social media bookmarks. It connects X, formerly Twitter, and Bluesky profiles in one dashboard.
The site addresses social media users who want to organize and retrieve scattered bookmarks across multiple accounts. dewey. searches bookmarks, tags, authors, and notes, while folders and tags organize saved content.
How it charges
dewey. has a Pro plan costing $10 monthly or $7.5 monthly with annual billing. The site says annual billing saves $30 per year.
Where customers come from
dewey. offers public URLs for sharing curated bookmark collections. It also supports automated bookmark syncing to Notion and RSS output for supported third-party programs, devices, and services. The site says dewey. is trusted by over 45,000 curators.
What stands out
dewey. automatically proposes and applies personalized bookmark tags using keywords about a user's interests. Users can also search bookmarks, tags, authors, and notes and organize saved content with folders and tags.
Exports include CSV, searchable PDFs, and Google Sheets. dewey. can export associated media, including images and videos, and can activate RSS output for supported third-party programs, devices, and services.
From the official site
All your bookmarks from any social media account
Built-in organization tools like folders and tags to control the clutter.
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
dewey.'s $12K a month is higher than 70% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
My view: demand comes from social media users who have saved content across several accounts and need one place to search, organize, retrieve, and export it. The buyer is a user managing a personal bookmark library, and distribution would need to reach users through search, social content, bookmark communities, integrations, and shareable collections.
My view: the hard parts include maintaining social account connections, handling syncing failures and account changes, preserving exports and associated media, and supporting a library users rely on for retrieval. Platform policies, privacy requirements, security, competition, and ongoing support would also require attention.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
dewey. brings bookmark saving, syncing, searching, organization, tagging, exporting, and public collection sharing into one product. Its product shape is a useful example of connecting multiple social accounts with a separate management and retrieval layer.
Sources
- dewey. official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- dewey. pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
- Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of January 2023
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure