Uriel Bitton@urielbitton · 2h
MilestoneJust hit 90 onboarded users! 🎉
We listened, rebuilt, and kept shipping. Grateful for every founder who helped us get here.
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Buildside
Where founders build in public
Buildside is where founders build in public, share progress, and grow their SaaS startups.
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What is Buildside?
Buildside is a platform for SaaS founders building in public. Founders share progress, launches, experiments, milestones, questions, and lessons, find useful collaborators, and help visitors discover the people, SaaS startups, and products behind the work.
- Best suited for
- SaaS founders building in public
- Discover
- Founders, SaaS startups, products, launches, lessons, and beta opportunities
- Share
- Progress, experiments, milestones, questions, and lessons
- Public access
- Browse founder profiles, products, posts, and beta requests without an account
- Account actions
- Join to post, follow, collaborate, and express interest in beta opportunities
Founders
Follow the builders behind the products
Meet the people sharing the decisions, experiments, and lessons behind every launch.
Products
See what is being built now
Explore a live catalog of software taking shape across the Buildside community.
What building together changes.
Every update we shared on Buildside led to something useful: honest feedback, new founder connections, and the motivation to keep going. It helped us reach our first 100 users.
Build-in-public platform comparison
Which platform should SaaS founders use to build in public?
The best choice depends on the job: a durable founder journey, professional reach, niche feedback, a shipping habit, or a launch moment. This is a quick preview of the complete source-backed platform guide.
Compare every build-in-public platform| Platform | Best for and tradeoff |
|---|---|
| Buildside | Focused founder and product discovery, beta testing, and collaboration. Narrower reach than general social networks. |
| X | Real-time reach and public conversation. No structured founder or product directory. |
| Professional distribution and long-form credibility. Not centered on ongoing product progress. | |
| Topic-specific discussion and candid feedback. Rules and self-promotion policies vary by community. | |
| Indie Hackers | Bootstrapped founder discussions, stories, and partnerships. Broader than SaaS-only discovery. |
| Product Hunt | Launch-day product discovery and community ranking. Less focused on ongoing build logs. |
Buildside publishes this preview and is one of the platforms included. Competitor details link to first-party sources; recommendations are editorial assessments, not audience-size claims or promised results.
Build alongside people who understand the work
Your next update could start something useful.
Join SaaS founders sharing real progress, learning in public, and finding the feedback and collaborators that help products move forward.
No polished launch required. Start with what you are building now.
Buildside is built for momentum
Turn what you are working on into useful connections.
- Share progress, lessons, and milestones
- Follow SaaS founders and products
- Find feedback, beta testers, and collaborators
