About

Built for the people who build.

RoketAd exists because the hardest part of launching a product isn’t shipping it — it’s getting the first people to notice.

Most advertising platforms are designed for companies with a marketing department, a media buyer and a budget that can absorb expensive mistakes. If you’re a solo founder shipping after work, that world is built for someone else.

RoketAd takes the opposite approach: a small, focused network of independent tech sites, newsletters and products, read by people who actually try new software. You set a budget you can afford, write a couple of honest lines, and see exactly what happened.

We’re building it in the open, with the first advertisers and publishers, rather than guessing what a generic “advertiser” wants. That’s why the waitlist exists — early members get access first and a real say in what gets built next.

What we believe

Relevance beats reach

Ten thousand people who care about developer tools are worth more than a million who don’t.

Trust is the product

If readers stop trusting the placements, the network has nothing to sell. Curation is not a feature — it’s the point.

Simple beats clever

A campaign you can set up in five minutes beats a dashboard with forty settings you’ll never use.

Honest numbers

No inflated metrics, no mystery traffic, no guarantees we can’t keep. You see what we see.

Where we are today

RoketAd is pre-launch. We’re building the initial advertiser and publisher network, reviewing early applications and shaping the dashboard with the people who join first.

If that sounds like something you’d use — as an advertiser, a publisher, or both — join the waitlist. If you just want to tell us what we’re getting wrong, we’d genuinely like to hear it.

Built for indie hackers

You built the product. Now get people to see it.

Join the waitlist and be first in line when RoketAd opens.

For advertisers and publishers · Free during early access