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Life & fun · June 18, 2026

I built a "living proof-of-work" profile for builders

Just like Show HN, you showcase your projects with other builders, but your work actually lives forever in a portfolio-like profile. Plus lots of other features like for-you feed, curated collections of projects - private and public, followers and following, threaded posts for showcasing updates to your projects, collaborations and many more.

I built a "living proof-of-work" profile for builders launched on June 18, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,466 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Post your side projects, see what others are building, and find your people. The feed that's curated for you.

Post your side projects and see what others are building, all in a feed that's curated for you. No more posting the same thing in ten reddit communities. Indie dev building developer tools at night. Ships small, ships often. Made real progress? Don't bury it in an edit. Post it as a new update and thread it onto the original. Followers get notified, and anyone who finds the latest version can trace the whole story back to the first scrappy commit. weekend hack, barely works, but it scratches my own itch. posting it here to keep myself honest. Find the people who get what you're making, and take it from first commit to shipped. The feed, your portfolio, and threads are just the start. Here's…from kritive.com

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