What would you like to see from a build-in-public community?

Hi, I'm Chris 👋🏼, I've been building madepublic.io for the past 6 months and I just launched on producthunt last week!

For those new to the concept, building in public allows you to get feedback, ideas, inspiration and motivation from like-minded others who are following your journey. You might find that someone has a suggestion that you never would have thought of on your own or a UX suggestion that makes your product 10x easier to use. Maybe you're just having trouble picking between gainsboro or papaya whip for your background colour.

However, I noticed that Twitter, while massively used by the community, wasn't the best platform for building in public. Its lack of organization and overwhelming amount of tweets made it difficult to keep track of updates. Additionally, it lacked essential features for outlining and organising the project, like the tech stack, third-party tools used, and upcoming features.

That's why I created madepublic, a platform for makers who want to build in public. As a solo founder, I wanted a space where I could share my work and connect with a community of like-minded individuals. And now, I'm excited to share that space with you after months of beta testing.

With madepublic, you'll have all the tools you need to showcase your work, get feedback, and connect with others who are on a similar journey.

Project pages are built to showcase what a project is about, why it exists and what exactly goes into it including motivation, business areas, tech stack and social links. They also hold public task lists from users (soon-to-be fully-fledged roadmaps 👀). Users are able to post updates with images to their feed, follow other project updates and comment on each others updates as they go to help improve and request help on their products.

The reception so far has been great and we've been growing but I wanted to reach out to all the Indiehackers on here to figure out exactly how I can make madepublic be the kind of place you want to build on.

I'd love any feedback and thoughts!