The Buildside changelog
New features, thoughtful improvements, and the small fixes that make building together better. Here’s what we’ve been shipping.
Discover upcoming challenges in the feed and Challenges page, with a launch date and a preview of the brief.
Invite members, share a signup link, and mention people and products in community chats.
Mention @brix with an image request and get the generated image attached to its reply.
Show what you are building with media in community rooms and their discussions.
Propose a space you would love to join and follow your idea through admin review.
Join shared conversations, ask for feedback, and learn from other builders in free community rooms.
Search the community’s hashtags and discover popular topics, recent posts, and newly appearing conversations.
Discover founder podcasts, keep listening while you browse, and join the conversation at the moment that matters.
Search public founders and products, combine category and business filters, and integrate Buildside data into your own tools.
Choose your product, preview its card, and feature it across the feed and product directory with a one-time Stripe payment.
Founder deals is a community directory of exclusive SaaS offers. Browse publicly and sign in to reveal a discount code or special checkout link.
Prism is an optional new layout for browsing, reading, and working across Buildside. You can switch back to Classic at any time.
Public posts now show their impression counts, and authors can review recorded views of their comments and replies.
A curated feature carousel in the feed points to recent Buildside releases and the places where you can try them.
Post owners can promote eligible public posts with Reach+ or reserve a feed ad, then track the campaign in one workspace.
Posts and replies have a clearer reaction picker, while GIFs can add a quick visual response across Buildside conversations.
Growth and Scale now offer yearly billing, and members on those plans can message without a weekly credit quota.
Founders can arrange the products on their profiles, while visitors have more ways to discover related work.
Founder profiles bring the person's story, products, and community activity into a clearer overview.
Product owners can permanently delete a product from its editor after confirming its exact name.
Explore now groups products by category and founders by expertise, making it easier to discover relevant work.
Post videos can now run up to four minutes on Free and other base-access plans, or ten minutes with a paid Growth or Scale subscription.
Brix can now help with more of your own content, analytics, and product work, with a searchable guide to the tasks it supports.
Founder Cards is a new way for signed-in members to discover people building on Buildside and recognize the founders they like.
Founder, product, and content analytics are now free for every account, with new insight into clicks Buildside sends to your work.
Public waitlists can now show the Buildside members who joined, making a launch community easier to recognize.
The home feed keeps a recent page ready and checks for new posts without suddenly moving you away from what you're reading.
Buildside Shop is open with a merchandise collection and live checkout for real orders.
Video posts now let you upload a cover image or choose a frame from the video itself.
Cross-posting now sends the complete Buildside post as one X post instead of splitting it into a thread.
The feed now highlights a rotating collection of featured products, giving you another way to discover what founders are building.
Product profiles now bring the story, use cases, founder, stack, and community feedback into a clearer overview.
The new Help & Support workspace lets you send a private request and follow replies without losing track of the conversation.
Founders can adjust an open waitlist's countdown, reopen a closed waitlist, and download a CSV of signups.
Personalized Discover suggestions now rotate each day, bringing new founders and products into view more often.
Challenger members now have a live progress card on the feed to track daily activity and monthly qualification.
The weekly founder leaderboard now shows points and explains which community actions contribute to a founder's score.
If the search service is unavailable, Buildside now keeps discovery and the founder map accessible with a limited fallback.
New block and report controls on founder profiles, products, posts, and comments give you more control over your Buildside experience.
Hashtags in public posts and replies now open dedicated topic pages. Searching for a single hashtag also finds exact matches in posts and comments.
Discover now opens with an organized overview of products, founders, opportunities, and official Buildside feature updates.
You can now edit your own repost commentary, and comment editors show image previews for supported links before you send or save a reply.
Buildside now suppresses stale or repeated activity emails, and the notification dropdown remembers where you were reading when you reopen it during the same app visit.
Your post drafts now have a private library saved to your Buildside account, including their images and videos.
Privacy settings now include separate switches for your founder pin and all of your products in the Startups view.
Free accounts can now follow up to 300 products, increased from 100. Eligible paid memberships have unlimited product follows.
Post galleries preserve original image proportions, and the expanded image viewer uses almost the full screen so product details are easier to inspect.
For You can now introduce public posts that founders you follow have commented on, with fixes that keep fresh posts and profile updates easier to find.
Buildside’s web app installs updates in the background without a refresh prompt, and startup no longer depends on loading online-only analytics.
Ask Brix now saves your private conversations and uses your founder profile and product details to make answers more relevant.
Paid Growth and Scale members gained longer post videos, and a single media picker makes it easier to add photos or a video. The paid limit increased again to ten minutes on October 4.
Correcting a product’s website URL now refreshes its details, story, features, demo screens, and detected tech stack from the new site.
Product profiles now have an interactive Boosts stat, and founder profiles make it easier to recognize people who already follow you.
The notification permission prompt now includes a Don’t ask again option, alongside Not now.
Eligible original public posts now count their headline and body together when Buildside decides which pages to offer for search indexing.
Creating a product testing round now opens applications, shares an announcement in the feed, and gives the round its own invite page.
Buildside’s product page now has a Published updates tab for official feature announcements. New announcements also appear in the For you and Following feeds.
Finishing your founder profile now takes you into Buildside without waiting for optional location detection and a second profile refresh.
The post composer fits smaller screens more comfortably, with contained attachment previews and clearer names when you mention founders or products.
Founder clusters now show an avatar and a count of the other people in the group. Founder and startup maps also reuse loaded results when you return.
Add your personal website and social profiles in Settings so other founders can find you beyond Buildside.
Shared product waitlists now open as focused landing pages with your product introduction, signup form, and launch countdown.
The threshold for a free Growth month has changed from five to ten invite points. Rewards already earned remain intact.
Public profiles with published work no longer need a long bio to qualify for search indexing. Search-facing pages also include more complete founder and product content.
Brix mentions complete more reliably while you write a comment, and nested replies stay in chronological order when opened from a notification.
Fixed a problem that could show a failed-save error when you edited a reply opened from a notification. Your updated reply now displays correctly in the conversation.
You can now apply to become a guest author on the Buildside blog. Send a short pitch about a lesson, topic, or story you would like to share with other founders.
Ask Brix now has a dedicated space for questions about building your product, finding people, and using Buildside. Follow up in the same conversation and open relevant community results from the answer.
The new Content tab brings your published posts and their performance into Analytics. A shared date filter also makes it easier to explore the same period across your analytics views.
Reply notifications now open the right conversation and bring the referenced reply into view. New activity stays highlighted while you catch up, even after the unread badge clears.
The Founder Map now has a Startups view. Explore products by city, search for a startup, and open its details alongside the founder behind it.
Founders can now create waitlists directly on their profiles. Opening a founder or product waitlist also adds a signup announcement to the feed, giving people another way to discover what is coming.
The desktop feed now suggests founders to follow, and founder profiles have a dedicated followers page for exploring their community.
Past challenges now have an archive where members can revisit the conversation. Founders who have completed onboarding also receive a notification when a new challenge launches.
Scale adds unlimited Brix searches and @Brix mentions to Growth benefits, subject to short-term anti-spam protections. It is available for US$19/month or US$209/year.
Growth and Scale members, including Growth trial members, can tag @Brix in a comment on a public post to ask for help without leaving the conversation.
Opening the notification panel or Notifications page now marks your notifications as read and clears the badge automatically.
Growth and Scale members, including members on a Growth trial, can connect a product repository and get notified about new features. Choose when to generate a private AI draft or write the update yourself.
New shortcuts below the feed composer take you straight to image uploads, video uploads, AI writing, and scheduled posts, with improvements to video preparation and playback.
Analytics share images now include your main chart alongside the headline numbers, giving your audience a clearer picture of your progress.
If you are not completely satisfied with your Buildside experience, you can contact support to request a full refund of your payment.
Eligible Free members can try Growth for seven days without adding a credit card, including GitHub drafts, X publishing, unlimited messaging, and AI writing.
Turn analytics into a shareable stat card, and celebrate being one of Buildside’s first 100 members with a personal member card.
A weekly email brings together your product growth, audience, and founder activity so you can catch up on the week’s progress in one place.
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.
Browsing the feed feels more continuous, with restored scroll position, automatic refreshes, and a compact carousel for community highlights on mobile.
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.
Product waitlists now include a live launch countdown, new-signup notifications for founders, and control over whether the signup count is public.
Mention products in posts and comments, download product share cards, and choose whether your product’s financial information appears publicly.
Share a public waitlist for your product and collect interest from visitors who do not have a Buildside account.
Conversations now support emoji and GIPHY messages, with faster attachment feedback and fixes for image uploads and interrupted sends.
Join a community challenge, share your participation in the feed, and see the other founders working toward the same goal.
The Founder Map connects people, places, and the products they are building. Live activity popups were retired on September 14; founder and startup browsing remain available.
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.
Builder Circles originally offered a private group feed for sharing progress. The Circle feed and its publishing tools were retired on October 8, 2026.
Referrer and country breakdowns add context to your analytics. Founder profile sharing also makes it easier to introduce yourself and your work beyond Buildside.
Weekly founder momentum leaderboards highlight activity across the community, while founder announcement cards help members welcome new builders.
Founder Tables give a small group a shared place for ongoing work, with a product workspace and weekly rounds to keep the conversation moving.
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.
A dedicated first-product onboarding flow helps new founders introduce what they are building, with fixes for profile setup and remembered product selections.
Buildside’s installable web app brings the community closer on mobile, with offline support and push notifications on supported devices and browsers.
Prepare a product update ahead of time and schedule it for later, so sharing progress can fit around the work of building.
Founder mentions make it easier to give credit, ask a specific person a question, and connect a conversation to the people behind the work.
Brix AI search is available from the navigation, alongside personalized discovery and founder search to help you find relevant people and products.
Private founders are anonymized on the Founder Map, bringing the map experience into line with their profile visibility.
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