Just launched: Dotts – a simple visual feedback tool for websites, images, and PDFs 🚀
Hey Indie Hackers!
We’re Leon (designer/dev) and Tobi (sales/ops) – and we just launched our new side project: Dotts.
What is Dotts?
Dotts is a minimal, client-friendly feedback tool that lets users leave pinpointed comments on live websites, images, and PDFs – all without needing an account. Just upload a file or paste a link, share it, and you’re good to go. It’s built to make feedback fast, simple, and visual.
Why we built it
As a designer and a software sales guy, we’ve both struggled with long, messy client review processes. Most tools out there (like MarkUp) are either too expensive, too bloated, or confusing for clients. So we decided to build something better – a lightweight, no-friction alternative that works out of the box.
Who it’s for
Designers, developers, product teams, freelancers, agencies – basically anyone who shares work and needs visual feedback. It works great for website reviews, mockups, landing pages, design files, or even PDF documents.
Key Features
Click-to-comment on websites, images, and PDFs
No login required for clients
Shareable links, comment mode toggle
Comment sidebar with replies, resolve, and mentions
Upload PDFs and images or just paste a URL
Project dashboard, team roles, notifications
GDPR compliant 🎉
What’s next
We’re improving onboarding, polishing UX, and preparing for Product Hunt. We'd love early feedback from other indie hackers to help shape where we go next!
👉 Try it out: [https://dotts.se/]
Thanks for reading – and happy to answer anything!
– Leon & Tobi
It's a really good idea. I'm not sure your value prop is immediately clear when I look at the site. I would love to do a full work-up User Panel for it on capture60 (one day I will be able to post links but its DOT COM); but just with my experience doing this for a number of years here are my topline thoughts:
I think the actual value prop it gives me in an organization is this:
🧠 “Feedback is scattered across 10 tools, 6 emails, 3 Slack threads, and no one knows what’s final.”
The true pain isn’t that giving feedback is hard — people still manage to do it.
The pain is that it’s fragmented and impossible to track. You end up with:
Comments in Figma
Suggestions in Google Docs
Edits in PDFs
“Quick thoughts” in Slack
Emails titled “Small tweaks”
A client texting you a screenshot with “What about this?”
You don’t know:
What feedback is latest
What’s been seen or acted on
Where to even look when it's time to make updates
So Dotts’ real value is:
It’s not just about “click to comment.”
It’s feedback centralization, not feedback collection.
---Note: I'm not sure that is exactly what you have built, but as a PM and a team leader I want to streamline the number of places I have to look for something... If you have the $30 in your budget I would love to have you as a client, I think you have a solid idea.
Wow, thank you so much for this thoughtful feedback – seriously appreciated 🙏
You nailed it: our long-term vision with Dotts is to centralize all that scattered feedback into one clean space. Right now, we're starting simple with visual commenting, but we're already thinking about how to solve the bigger chaos you described. Your breakdown really helped clarify the messaging we should focus on. And we’ll definitely work on making that value prop clearer on the site.
I'll check your tool too, looks interesting!
Love the value proposition. Thanks @capture60!!
This is the missing link we all needed! Really good idea 👍🏾 it’s now in my favourites.
Thanks!
Damn, that just made me fall in love with supademo..... I will be ripping that off tonight!
Yeah its a great tool!
Let's go!! :))
you’ve nailed the no login friction.... point ...... that’s often the hidden killer in client feedback flows. have you noticed different types of feedback depending on whether users are clients or internal teams?
What is your review currently?
Hi @kc green, what do you mean with review?
I mean does you website have a review?