Every project, with an honest status

The five statuses

• Active: live and maintained. People can use it today.
• Building: in progress. A beta, a waitlist, a game in development.
• Acquired: sold to someone else. One of the best things a maker can show.
• On hold: paused, maybe for good, maybe not.
• Discontinued: shut down or archived.

Each template shows status its own way: a colored pill in Stack and Showcase, a dot in Minimal and Bento, a lowercase label like on-hold in Terminal.

Why show the failures

A list of only winners looks either lucky or curated. A history with a few discontinued projects and an acquisition shows you have shipped, learned and kept going. People who follow builders understand that most projects do not work, and they respect makers who say so.

It also saves you messages. Nobody needs to ask whether an old app still works. Read building in public: sharing revenue and failures.

Status drives the leaderboard

Only Active and Building projects appear on the public leaderboard, and the Bento template counts how many of your projects are live or building. Change a status with one click when something ships, sells or stops.

Want something off the page entirely? Hide it instead. It stays in your editor for later.