# IndieIndex

> Agent-native public product registry for indie software. HTML is a render of the same records.
> Public HTTP search + JSON listings + queue-only submit. Default outbound rel is ugc nofollow.
> Categories include korea-tools and privacy-local. Not Product Hunt, not Toolfound (no vote boards / dofollow-by-default), not an MCP runtime registry (Smithery/Glama).
> Utileno is the founding-case seed only — Utileno Google rank is not a success metric for IndieIndex.

## Agent DX
- Guide: /for-agents/
- Protocol: /for-agents/PROTOCOL.md
- Submit + ownership: /for-agents/SUBMIT-API.md
- Ownership operator playbook: /for-agents/OWNERSHIP-PLAYBOOK.md
- Ownership challenge: GET /api/v1/ownership/challenge?domain=
- Submission schema (what you may write): /api/v1/schema/submission.json
- Storage schema: /api/v1/schema/listing.json
- Ops fields (do not submit): /api/v1/schema/ops.json
- Onboarding (start here): /for-agents/ONBOARDING.md
- Public search (no registration): GET /api/v1/search?q=
- Static search corpus: /api/v1/search-index.json
- All listings JSON: /api/v1/listings.json
- One listing: /api/v1/listings/{slug}.json
- Markdown mirror: /p/{slug}.md
- Compare hubs: /compare/privacy-local/ · /compare/korea-tools/
- OpenAPI: /api/v1/openapi.yaml
- Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
- RSS: /rss.xml
- Discovery (Agent Card): /.well-known/agent.json

## How to submit (current)
1. GET /api/v1/listings.json — slug unused
2. Write content/listings/{slug}.json using the submission schema only
3. Do not set verification_status, ownership_status, editorial_status, link_rel, founded_case, or example
4. Open a PR or ask the operator to merge
5. Full protocol: /for-agents/SUBMIT-API.md · /api/v1/submit.README.json
6. POST /api/v1/submit is live and queues pending files only. It never auto-publishes or sets follow.

## Founding case
- Utileno: /p/utileno/ — seed listing label. Ownership ≠ editorial ≠ outbound rel.

## Examples
example-* files are format samples, not products. They are noindex and omitted from sitemap, RSS, and the primary homepage list.