A home base for building in public

One link that catches people up

When someone discovers you through a build-in-public post, they want context fast. Scrolling back through a year of updates is not going to happen.

A makerhandle page puts it all in one place: a short bio, your current project as a featured card, everything else you have built below it, and your socials. Put it in your X, LinkedIn or Threads bio and new followers can catch up in one click.

It also gives your updates something to point to. "Numbers are on my page" is shorter than a thread, and it stays true after the post is gone.

Honest status, including failures

Building in public is about the misses as much as the wins. Every project has a status: Active, Building, Acquired, On hold or Discontinued. Keep your shut-down projects on the page and label them. It shows you ship, learn and keep going.

Most makers quietly delete dead projects from their bios. That throws away the most interesting part of the story. A page that shows three discontinued projects next to one that worked is more believable, and more useful to other makers, than a page with only a winner.

We wrote more about this in building in public: sharing revenue and failures.

Revenue people can trust

Screenshots are easy to edit and go stale the day you post them. Connect Stripe or Shopify with a read-only credential and your page shows a number that updates on its own, with a check mark to show it came from the source.

Stripe shows MRR from active subscriptions, or the last 30 days of charges net of refunds. Shopify shows the last 30 days of orders net of refunds, excluding cancelled and test orders. The method is the same for everyone, so your number is comparable with other makers' numbers. See verified revenue.

A leaderboard to share

Projects with revenue appear on the public leaderboard of projects and makers by monthly revenue. Visitors can filter to verified only. It is a handy thing to link in a monthly update, and a way for people to find you while browsing what other makers are building.

Not ready to share a number? Leave revenue off. You can still list the project with its status, and add revenue later when you are comfortable. You can also stop sharing at any time: disconnect the source or hide the project, and it drops off the leaderboard.

Stats for your updates

Views, unique visitors, clicks per project, click-through rate, referrers and countries. Perfect material for a monthly build-in-public post, and useful for seeing which platform actually sends people to your work rather than just likes.

If a thread does well but nobody clicks through, that is worth knowing. If a quiet post on a smaller platform sends real visitors, that is worth knowing too. Unique visitors are counted with a daily salted hash, so no IP addresses are stored. Free keeps seven days of stats; Pro keeps a year. More on analytics.