A directory of people who build in public. Indie hackers, startup founders and ambitious makers.
- Get initial list of builders ✅
- Add pictures ✅
- Add application form ✅
- Add link to build log ✅
- Add google analytics ✅
- Add privacy policy and terms of use ✅
- Sort Pages ✅
- Individual Profile Pages ✅
- Resources Page ✅
- Sort by most recently added ✅
- Define criteria for being accepted ✅
- Add Reddit, Product Hunt and Indie Hackers ✅
- Refine list of builders to only #buildinpublic ✅
- Make then Share Demo Video ✅
Add 2 builders per day and ping each on social media. Wait for traction...
- Weekly News Page
- Newsletter
- Add feedback link
- Add favorite button with google event tracking and local storage
- Set up API that pulls stats
- Show a list of projects
- Show a list of posts
- Show a list of repos
- Use AI to analyze Bing Search API and provide insights
- Podcast
Watch me iterate with ChatGPT
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2024-11-24
🤔 Now sorts by trending based on recent cross-platform follower increase
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2024-11-23
🤔 Working on figuring out what I want to do for a newsletter
📈 Added tracked follower counts over time to the UI
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2024-11-22
🌻 Took the day off. Touched grass.
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2024-11-21
🚀 Launched on Product Hunt
📰 Added posts pages to johnnybuilds.com
📊 Started tracking follower counts over time
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2024-11-20
📰 Added script to embed Medium feed data directly into project when I deploy
🦋 Published article on X vs Bluesky
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2024-11-19
🚀 Scheduled Product Hunt Launch
👥 Added more people to the directory and did outreach
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2024-11-18
📸 Added current project website screenshots
📋 Added new Projects Page which lists all current projects by builders in the directory
🛳️ Wrote publish script to run generator scripts, commit, push and deploy
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2024-11-17
🔎 Finished Playwright automation to find #buildinpublic people
⏩ Improved new builder approval flow
🌐 62 𝕏 54 🦋 117
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2024-11-16
🎉 Approved first real applications to join (4 of them)
🐛 Fixed bugs in application and approval process
🌐 31 𝕏 54 🦋 111
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2024-11-15
👽 Promoted on Reddit
⚙️ Started writing automation scripts (aka secret sauce)
🌐 8 𝕏 52 🦋 105
📄 3 ➕ 33 ➖ 2
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2024-11-14
🎥 Made demo video
👤 Added 2 builders
✨ Side adventure: add background particle animation to my website
🌐 8 𝕏 46 🦋 96
📄 8 ➕ 65➖ 28
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2024-11-13
📋 Added criteria for joining
⛔ Culling list of anyone not #buildinpublic
📣 Added Reddit and Product Hunt to socials
🔗 Added links for newsletter, podcast, posts and revenue
🌐 3 𝕏 46 🦋 92
📄 20 ➕ 375➖ 238
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2024-11-12
PublicBuilders #buildinpublic Day 10
🔎 SEO: Added sitemap + structured data
⏰ Added builders & create timestamps to records
🕶️ Added resources to awesome-buildinpublic
🌐 12 𝕏 40 🦋 77 (web visits + followes)
📄 41 ➕ 944 ➖ 444 (files changed, lines ++/--)
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2024-11-11
🔎 Started working on SEO
🔝 Added pages for top bluesky, twitter, github and youtubers
👤 Added individual profile pages
➕ Added SEO friendly pagination
🙏 Added resources page
🕶️ Powered by new awesome-buildinpublic list I made on Github
📑 Added privacy policy and terms of use
⏫ Files changed: 68, Lines added: 1705, Lines deleted: 440
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2024-11-10
📄 Updated About Page
🔗 Added links to Build Log
💬 Added Contact link pointing to Github Discussions
📈 Added Google Analytics
📱 Fixed mobile nav layout
⏫ Files changed: 41, Lines added: 546, Lines deleted: 297
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2024-11-09
👍 Add admin approval page (local env only)
👮 Added backend for admin submission review
⏫ Files changed: 29, Lines added: 773, Lines deleted: 381
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2024-11-08
😸 Setup Github commit flow for join requests
👮 Refactored typings to infer from zod
🎉 First successful form submission
⏫ Files changed: 178, Lines added: 19836, Lines deleted: 3100
Public Builders Join Request Form Submissions Data
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2024-11-07
🪪 Added ReCAPTCHA to join form
🤚 UI Improvements builder join request form
😩 Signed up to new X account after mystery lockout
🔁 Made CLI tool to generate commit stats + added Build Log to README
⏫ Files changed: 24, Lines added: 1895, Lines deleted: 203
git-daily-summary.sh
x/johnnybuilds_
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2024-11-06
🪪 Added missing builder data
😩 Been locked out of my X account for 2 days
🔁 Used ChatGPT to normalize tagging in my json data
🤚 Added UI for the builder join request form
⏫ Files changed: 13, Lines added: 860, Lines deleted: 1035
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2024-11-05
🛠️ Grinding on creating initial list of builders
👤 Improved CLI command to auto batch upload missing profile images to my S3
🔍 Added sorting and searching
⏫ Files changed: 11, Lines added: 1197, Lines deleted: 390
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2024-11-04
🤘 Went from empty project directory to initial prototype.
🛠️ Creating initial list of builders
👤 Made script for uploading profile images
🚫 Tried/failed to find social media data solution
⏫ Files changed: 12, Lines added: 2498, Lines deleted: 269
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2024-11-03
🚀 Bought publicbuilders.org
🚀 Generated a prototype on v0
🦋 Deployed, shared on Bluesky
😎 Updated JohnnyBuilds.com project status
⏫ Files changed: 86, Lines added: 12129, Lines deleted: 697
Sections:
- Trending Builders
- Most growth on Bluesky/X
- Tip/Tool of the Week
- Source and schedule
- Launch of the Week
- Source and choose
- Interview of the Week
- Source and choose
- Posts of the Week
- Source and choose
- New Builders
- Auto generate
Build log generator command:
git log --since="1 month ago" --date=short --pretty=format:"%cd" --shortstat | \
awk '
/^20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}/ {
date=$1
}
/files changed/ {
files[date]+=$1; inserted[date]+=$4; deleted[date]+=$6
}
END {
for (d in files)
printf "%s - Files changed: %s, Lines added: %s, Lines deleted: %s\n", d, files[d], inserted[d], deleted[d]
}
' | sort
Let’s take a look at the Public Builders dot org website, a website directory of people known for building in public. We can search for someone or sort them by name, recently added or by number of followers on different platforms. Each profile card has a short intro, a link to their site, category tags and social media links with follower counts, along with their current project. You can click view profile to see a page with some more info, like if they have a newsletter or host a podcast. You can easily find top builders by most followers on Twitter, Bluesky, Github, YouTube or Product Hunt. We also have a collection of resources for building in public, powered by the awesome build in public list on Github which has links to a variety of build in public communities, tools and content. It is open source and anyone can contribute. If you want to be added to the public builders directory, just click join to get to the application form. Check the boxes to confirm that you are aligned with the build in public philosophy. Fill out the information and submit. Your application will be added as a commit directly to the open source public builders repository. You will be notified via x or blue sky when your profile is live.
Public Builders is a directory of top #buildinpublic founders, creators, makers and indie hackers sharing their experiences, good and bad. You can browse by name, recently added and follower counts on various platforms like X, Bluesky, Github and Product Hunt.
When I was getting started building in public, I had a hard time finding a good list of people who were actively and consistently building in public. So I made one.
PublicBuilders.org exists to provide a list of people who are building their projects in public. You can search and sort by name, recently added or by most followers on Twitter, Bluesky, Github, YouTube or Product Hunt. Each profile has a short intro, a link to their site, category tags and social media links with follower counts, along with their current project. You can click view profile to see a page with some more info, like if they have a newsletter or host a podcast.
Additionally there is a resources for people interested in building in public, powered by the open source ‘awesome build in public’ list on Github which has links to a variety of build in public communities, tools and content. It is open source and anyone can contribute.
If you build in public and want to be added to the directory, just click join and fill out the application form. Even the applications are open source on the Public Builders github repository.
PublicBuilders.org is itself being built in public by Johnny Builds. It started out as a reply in a BlueSky thread. The prototype was built, deployed and shared in 20 minutes. You can follow along by reading daily progress updates as they are published to the Public Build Log.