About Lighthouse

Lighthouse is built by DeadPixel Studio UG, a small indie studio based in Germany. We make tools for indie founders, makers, and indie iOS or web developers who want to validate an idea and get their first 100 users without stitching five subscriptions together.

The problem we solve is simple but underserved: before you write code, you need to know whether anyone actually wants what you are building. Most indie founders skip this step because the tooling makes it harder than it should be. A landing page tool that captures emails but cannot ask questions. A survey tool that asks questions but has no signup form. A newsletter that does not know who is on the list. A feedback widget with its own login. Four products, four logins, none of them talking to each other. By the time you have stitched them together you have already started writing the product nobody has signed off on.

Lighthouse closes the gap. A branded waitlist landing page with survey questions baked into the signup form, a visible goal counter that motivates sharing, a newsletter for keeping the list warm before and after launch, a feedback page for everything that comes back once you ship, and a REST API on the Pro plan for wiring it into your own product. Flat indie pricing: $19 a month for Starter, $29 for Pro, no per-contact tiers. One tool, one subscription, the whole launch arc.

After you launch, the same toolkit stays with you. Waitlist signups become newsletter subscribers. The feedback inbox turns the launch into a product that gets better week over week. Onboarding survey data flows in through the API. Lighthouse grows with you from day zero to day one thousand.

The studio is run by Rouzbeh Abadi, an indie iOS developer who shipped 7 indie apps over 8 years before building two web tools for himself along the way: Spaceport, a SwiftUI starter that gets a paid iOS app live in days, and Lighthouse, the indie launch toolkit. Different audiences, same indie-dev frustration: every new project rebuilt the same plumbing.

If you have questions, want to compare Lighthouse with a tool you already use, or just want to say hello, reach us on the contact page. The blog has honest comparisons with Kit, Loops, Tally, Substack, Beehiiv, Mailchimp, and Notion, plus practical guides on the indie launch arc.