Creators

Colin McDonnell

creator of Zod, Reylo, Nub, Standard Schema, http://trpc.io/, zshy 💎 building @pullfrogai 🐸 friendly neighborhood typescript nerd 🦆 prev @ bun, edgedb, mit 🏛️

@colinhacks 28.8K X followers colinhackscolinhacks.com First product launched 9y ago

Total monthly visits
293K
Aug 2026Zod accounts for 84%
MRR
$1Claimed
Indie Hackers · 2026-09-29“$1/mo”
Products
8
+3+2
Since Dec 2016
Latest launch
18mo ago
Zod244.7K visits/mo
100% full-depth creator dossier open: complete product portfolio, 12-month combined traffic & MRR curves, shipping cadence, and timeline events.

Traffic & revenue

Portfolio · Last 12 months
Monthly visits
Monthly revenue & equivalents1 / 8 products with revenue evidence
Sep 2026
Longwave$1/moSelf-reported eq.

Products

Products and research metrics
ProductVisits · AugActions
ZodOSSTypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference244.7K
tRPCOSSMove Fast and Break Nothing.End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.45.3K
Lorelai for iPhoneTurn your favorite photos into coloring books<5K
LongwaveJournal together to stay connected<5K
AwesomeDigestawesome newsletters<5K
JournalJerkIn 2017, keep a journal—or else—
Popcorn NotifySend simple emails and text messages from one API—
Zod101Z Zod101—

Timeline

Launches, marketing, revenue milestones, and pricing/plan/positioning changes across products

  1. Nov 1 · 14d ago

    • tRPC Adopted technology: CloudflareFeatures

      —→Cloudflare

    • tRPC Adopted technology: Cloudflare Bot ManagementFeatures

      —→Cloudflare Bot Management

    • Zod Adopted technology: Cloudflare Browser InsightsFeatures

      —→Cloudflare Browser Insights

    • Zod Adopted technology: TurbopackFeatures

      —→Turbopack

  2. Sep 29 · 47d ago

    • Longwave disclosed MRR $1Claimed revenue

      $1/mo · Indie Hackers