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24 updates and counting

September 2026

New featureIntegrationsLatest release

Turn GitHub pushes into product updates

Introducing GitHub update drafts for paid Growth members: connect a product repository and turn pushes into private AI-written progress updates. Public access is not available yet.

  • Each qualifying push to your repository’s default branch becomes one concise draft, even when it contains several commits.
  • Review, edit, and publish when you are ready. Drafts stay private until you choose to share them on Buildside.
  • Pause new drafts or disconnect the repository from your product’s GitHub updates page when the integration becomes available.
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New featureSharing

Give your milestones a moment

Turn analytics into a shareable stat card, and celebrate being one of Buildside’s first 100 members with a personal member card.

  • Create a branded card from supported analytics stats to share your progress.
  • Eligible early members can open and share their first 100 member card.
  • Repost a community update directly, with or without adding your own commentary.
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New featureAnalytics

Your product’s week, in your inbox

A Monday email brings together your product growth, audience, and founder activity so you can catch up on the week’s progress in one place.

  • See a weekly summary of product performance without opening each analytics view.
  • Review audience and activity alongside your product’s growth.
  • Control weekly product digest emails in Settings under Activity email.
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New featurePublishing

Take your updates to X

Growth members can cross-post Buildside updates to X. The post composer also keeps unfinished drafts so you can come back to what you were writing.

  • Connect your X account and choose cross-posting when publishing an eligible update.
  • Write once and share progress with your Buildside community and your X audience.
  • Return to an unfinished composer draft after leaving the page or refreshing.
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ImprovedCommunity

Pick up where you left off

Browsing the feed feels more continuous, with restored scroll position, automatic refreshes, and a compact carousel for community highlights on mobile.

  • Return to your previous feed position for up to an hour after navigating away.
  • Browse mobile feed highlights with a swipe.
  • See new activity through automatic feed refreshes and clearer reposted states.
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New featurePublishing

More room to show your work

Share a sequence of images in posts and comments with swipeable carousels. Add context, walk through a change, or show several parts of your product together.

  • Browse multiple images without leaving the post or comment.
  • Paste images directly into a comment while writing your reply.
  • Start a chat from a founder’s hover card when you want to continue the conversation.
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ImprovedProduct launches

Build anticipation before launch day

Product waitlists now include a live launch countdown, new-signup notifications for founders, and control over whether the signup count is public.

  • Show visitors how long remains until your planned launch.
  • Choose whether to display your waitlist size.
  • Receive a notification when someone joins, with confirmation before destructive waitlist actions.
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New featureProduct profiles

Connect the conversation to your product

Mention products in posts and comments, download product share cards, and choose whether your product’s financial information appears publicly.

  • Link the product you are discussing with a product mention.
  • Download a branded product card to share outside Buildside.
  • Keep product financials private using the visibility setting.
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New featureProduct launches

Let your next users join the waitlist

Share a public waitlist for your product and collect interest from visitors who do not have a Buildside account.

  • Give your product a dedicated, shareable waitlist page.
  • Let guests register their interest without creating a community account first.
  • Manage incoming interest through your product’s early access tools.
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ImprovedMessaging

A little more personality in your chats

Conversations now support emoji and GIPHY messages, with faster attachment feedback and fixes for image uploads and interrupted sends.

  • Find and send a GIF without leaving your conversation.
  • See attachment messages appear while the send completes.
  • Continue chatting more reliably after navigation or a temporary interruption.
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August 2026

New featureCommunity

Make progress together with founder challenges

Join a community challenge, share your participation in the feed, and see the other founders working toward the same goal.

  • Discover the current challenge from the community feed.
  • Join a challenge and share your progress with fellow participants.
  • See participant avatars and counts, with notifications as founders join.
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ImprovedDiscovery

See the community coming to life

The Founder Map now shows live activity and the product a founder is building, making it easier to connect people, places, and their work.

  • See founder activity appear on the map as it happens.
  • Explore a founder’s current product from their map profile.
  • Move between founder profiles and their location on the map.
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New featureProduct growth

Bring early users closer to your product

Product Early Access gives founders a place to manage requests and invitations. New founder and product network analytics help you understand the audience growing around your work.

  • Review early access requests and invite people to try your product.
  • Keep track of invitations and access status in your product workspace.
  • Explore founder and product network growth through the analytics views available to your plan.
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New featureCommunity

Find your people in Builder Circles

Builder Circles bring a smaller group of founders into your day-to-day building routine, with a private feed for sharing progress and asking for help.

  • Meet the founders in your circle from the strip above your feed.
  • Share a post with your circle and join conversations within the group.
  • Use the circle’s rematch option when you are ready to find another group.
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New featureAnalytics

Understand where your audience comes from

Referrer and country breakdowns add context to your analytics. Founder profile sharing also makes it easier to introduce yourself and your work beyond Buildside.

  • Review the sites and countries bringing visitors to your profile or product in supported analytics views.
  • Recognize common traffic sources through their brand icons.
  • Share your founder profile with a dedicated sharing action.
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New featureCommunity

Recognize the founders showing up

Weekly founder momentum leaderboards highlight activity across the community, while founder announcement cards help members welcome new builders.

  • Explore the weekly momentum leaderboard to discover active founders.
  • Get to know new members through founder announcement cards in the feed.
  • See real-time presence in chats to know when another founder is around.
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New featureCollaboration

Pull up a chair at a Founder Table

Founder Tables give a small group a shared place for ongoing work, with a product workspace and weekly rounds to keep the conversation moving.

  • Create or join a table built around a focused group of founders.
  • Keep product work and group conversations together.
  • Return for weekly rounds and check in on one another’s progress.
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New featurePublishing

A starting point that sounds more like you

AI-assisted post drafting can use your writing voice to help turn an idea into an update. It gives you a starting point to review and make your own.

  • Use the AI writing control in the post composer with an eligible membership.
  • Generate a draft informed by your writing voice.
  • Edit the wording and choose when your update is ready to publish.
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ImprovedGetting started

A clearer path to your first product

A dedicated first-product onboarding flow helps new founders introduce what they are building, with fixes for profile setup and remembered product selections.

  • Follow a guided flow to add your first product.
  • Keep your selected product when preparing another post.
  • Complete profile setup with more reliable saving and permissions.
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New featureMobile

Keep Buildside on your home screen

Buildside’s installable web app brings the community closer on mobile, with offline support and push notifications on supported devices and browsers.

  • Install Buildside from a supported browser for quick access from your home screen.
  • Use supported offline features and resume queued activity after reconnecting.
  • Enable push notifications where your device and browser support them.
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New featurePublishing

Write now. Share when the time is right.

Prepare a product update ahead of time and schedule it for later, so sharing progress can fit around the work of building.

  • Choose a future publication time from the post composer.
  • Review and manage scheduled updates before they go live.
  • Discover more relevant founder activity through improvements to the feed.
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New featureConversations

Bring another founder into the conversation

Founder mentions make it easier to give credit, ask a specific person a question, and connect a conversation to the people behind the work.

  • Mention a founder while composing a post or reply.
  • Open the mentioned founder’s profile from the conversation.
  • Follow discussions more easily with improvements to the social experience.
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New featureDiscovery

Find your next useful connection

Brix AI search is available from the navigation, alongside personalized discovery and founder search to help you find relevant people and products.

  • Open Brix from the navigation to explore the community with a question.
  • Discover founders and products through personalized recommendations.
  • Find a founder and explore the products they are building.
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FixedPrivacy

Respecting private profiles on the map

Private founders are anonymized on the Founder Map, bringing the map experience into line with their profile visibility.

  • Private profiles no longer identify the founder on the map.
  • Public founder profiles remain available for community discovery.
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