ActivityProof review: live shipping-status badges for indie sites

ActivityProof is a live shipping-status badge for indie product sites. You connect a signal, preview the SVG on a dashboard, then pay once to make the badge live on your homepage. Visitors see whether you are Active, Quiet, or how long you have been Live since, without opening GitHub or a changelog.

This is an operator review, and the bias is stronger than usual: ActivityProof is MakerHunt dogfood. It was an early product we used to practice the same listing shape MakerHunt now sells to other makers. We built both. Treat every compliment as coming from the kitchen, not from a stranger’s lab.

Product URL: activityproof.site.

What it is

If you ship in public, your homepage should answer a quiet question: is this maker still moving? Static “Shipping!” stickers go stale. ActivityProof replaces that sticker with a small SVG badge whose state tracks real work signals, typically via GitHub-connected activity, so the proof stays tied to behavior instead of marketing copy.

The workflow is intentionally narrow:

1. Connect the signal source
2. Preview the badge in the dashboard (themes, size, pip, corner)
3. Drop the embed on a public homepage when you are happy
4. Pay once (OTP) when you want the live badge, not a subscription treadmill

Attribution lives in the SVG. That is part of the product honesty: the badge is proof infrastructure, not an invisible tracker pretending to be neutral chrome.

ActivityProof is not a portfolio CMS, not a changelog product, and not a shields.io sticker zoo. One job: live shipping status on a page you control.

Who it is for (and who it is not)

For: indie makers and solo founders who already have a public marketing site and want a credibility signal next to the logo. Products that ship often enough that “Active” vs “Quiet” means something. Launch-day makers who want proof they still ship after PotD week fades.

Also for: people who prefer one-time purchase pricing over yet another €X/mo line item for a tiny badge.

Not for: shields.io toy collectors who want fifty colorful badges for fun. Not for people without a public homepage (if the only surface is a private demo behind login, there is nowhere honest to put the badge). Not for portfolio CMS seekers who want ActivityProof to become their site builder, blog, or case-study system.

If you need an enterprise status page for APIs and SLAs, this is the wrong category. ActivityProof is maker-site proof, not incident management.

Unique selling points

GitHub-connected signal. Status comes from work you already do, which keeps the badge from becoming a manual vanity toggle.

Honest states. Active, Quiet, and Live since are readable in a glance. Visitors do not need a legend essay.

Dashboard preview before you pay. You can see themes, size, pip, and corner treatment while the badge is still in preview. That lowers buy risk.

Themes and presentation controls. Enough taste knobs to match a maker site without turning into a design tool.

Attribution in the SVG. Transparent about where the badge comes from. Fits MakerHunt’s “no fake proof” culture.

OTP, not subscription. Basic and Pro are one-time purchases. For a badge, that pricing story is easier to trust than infinite monthly billing.

Dogfood lineage. The same team uses the “small public proof on a homepage” pattern on MakerHunt’s Featured-on path. That does not make the badge magic. It does mean the product was shaped by actually listing indie tools.

Pricing

Pay once to go live. Basic is enough for a single product site. Pro is for makers with multiple homepages or a small portfolio of live tools.

There is no “unlimited everything forever plus agency seats” theater. If you outgrow one project, Pro is the step. If you do not have a homepage yet, do not buy either plan until the page exists.

MakerHunt fit

ActivityProof is almost the platonic MakerHunt listing: one URL, one job, screenshot of a badge on a real homepage, clear OTP pricing, Featured-on friendly. Categories that fit:

• Developer tools
• Marketing
• SaaS

Alternatives pages that place it in the right comparison set:

• GitHub alternatives (signal source / builder context)
• Product Hunt alternatives (launch and proof culture)
• Vercel alternatives (ship-and-show homepage neighborhood)

Free-path hunters can put both a MakerHunt Featured-on badge and an ActivityProof badge on the same homepage without inventing a new narrative: one says you launched on a hunt day, the other says you still ship.

If you are preparing a launch, how to launch an indie product on MakerHunt covers the day-of mechanics. For distribution beyond a single hunt, Product Hunt alternatives in 2026 is useful context. Neither article replaces a homepage that can host the badge.

Pros

• One clear job visitors understand immediately
• Preview before purchase reduces regret
• OTP pricing fits a badge better than a subscription
• Honest Active / Quiet / Live since states
• Theme and size controls without becoming a CMS
• Natural companion to MakerHunt Featured-on placement
• GitHub-tied signal keeps status closer to reality

Caveats

Operator bias is heavy. This is MakerHunt dogfood. We are not a neutral reviewer.

ActivityProof does not replace a changelog, roadmap, or status page for infrastructure incidents.

A badge cannot invent shipping. If the connected signal is quiet, the badge will look quiet. That is correct behavior, not a bug to “fix” with fake Active states.

Not useful without a public page. Buy the homepage first.

This review is not a paid SEO order and does not purchase PotD. MakerHunt ranks still come from upvotes. Stripe seoOrders on MakerHunt queue separately from this content.

Shields.io collectors and badge maximalists will be happier elsewhere. ActivityProof is intentionally narrow.

Verdict

Use ActivityProof if your homepage is the front door and you want live shipping proof next to the brand, with preview free and a one-time fee to go live. Skip it if you have no public site, want a portfolio CMS, or only collect decorative badges.

Visit activityproof.site. When your own indie tool is ready for a hunt day, submit on MakerHunt.