Buildside features
Everything to
build, connect, and grow.
Explore the Buildside tools for SaaS founders to build in public, find collaborators, test ideas, and share product progress.
Build in public
Make your progress part of the conversation.
Share launches, lessons, experiments, and milestones with a community of SaaS founders. Build a public record of your startup journey and learn from the conversations around your work.
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Founder discovery
Find founders who understand what you’re building.
Discover indie hackers and SaaS founders by their expertise, products, and startup journey. Explore public founder profiles to understand the person behind the work before you connect.
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Product showcase
Give your product a place to grow.
Showcase your SaaS product, share updates, and help early adopters discover your work. Bring your product story, screenshots, founder, and community feedback together on a public product page.
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Founder Matches
Meet people who can move your idea forward.
Explore founder recommendations based on your goals, expertise, and the help you can offer. Add what you’re looking for to make suggestions more relevant, with introductions controlled by your preferences.
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Beta testing
Build a better product with early feedback.
Invite beta testers to try your SaaS product and collect practical feedback before your next launch. Create a product testing round, share its invitation page, and manage applications from interested testers.
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Founder and startup map
Find your people, wherever you build.
Explore SaaS founders and their startups on a shared world map. Browse by city, discover nearby builders, and open founder or product profiles to learn more about their work.
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Founder collaborations
Turn a useful connection into a conversation.
Send a private collaboration proposal to another founder with a clear reason to connect. Review incoming requests, agree on the opportunity, and continue accepted collaborations in a direct conversation.
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Direct messaging
Keep the conversation moving.
Message founders directly to exchange feedback, discuss a product, or follow up on a collaboration. Keep your conversations together with support for attachments and the privacy controls of each member.
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Product waitlists
Build interest before you launch.
Give your upcoming SaaS product a dedicated waitlist landing page. Introduce your idea, collect early-access signups, manage your launch timing, and export your signup list when you’re ready.
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Product feedback and roadmaps
Let useful feedback shape what comes next.
Collect product ideas and feature requests in one place. Follow community feedback and show how your roadmap moves from ideas to planned work and shipped improvements.
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Weekly challenges
Make room for consistent progress.
Join community challenges that encourage you to build, share, and reflect. Follow the challenge brief, post your progress, and learn alongside other founders working toward a shared goal.
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Founder and product analytics
Understand how people discover your work.
See profile views, product activity, content performance, and outbound clicks in Buildside analytics. Compare date ranges to understand your reach and use those observations to decide what to share next.
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Ask Brix AI
Get help with your next step.
Ask Brix questions about building your product, finding relevant founders, and using Buildside. Explore community results, continue with follow-up questions, and return to your saved private conversations.
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AI writing assistant
Turn a rough idea into a useful update.
Start with a topic or something you’ve built and get help drafting a build-in-public post. Review the suggested wording, add your own experience, and edit the draft before sharing it.
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Saved post drafts
Keep good ideas until they’re ready.
Save unfinished posts privately to your Buildside account, including attached images and videos. Reopen your draft library on another device and continue writing when the next idea lands.
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Scheduled posts
Share progress on your schedule.
Prepare a product update in advance and choose when it should publish. Scheduled posts help you keep a steady build-in-public rhythm while leaving time for the work you want to share.
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GitHub update drafts
Turn shipped features into stories worth sharing.
Connect a product repository and review newly shipped features from GitHub. Generate an editable product-update draft or write your own, then choose what to publish to your community.
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X cross-publishing
Give your update another place to be seen.
Connect your X account to share a Buildside update with your audience there. Review your post and choose to cross-publish it as part of your existing build-in-public workflow.
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Podcasts and Podcast Studio
Share the story behind the build.
Discover founder podcasts and join episode discussions. Approved creators can record audio, edit an episode, and review its transcript and chapters before publishing their story.
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Founder deals
Discover useful tools with founder offers.
Browse SaaS discounts shared by the Buildside community. Explore public offers, then sign in to reveal a discount code or special checkout link for the tools that fit your work.
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Post promotions
Put your work in front of more founders.
Promote eligible public posts with Reach+ or reserve a feed ad. Preview your promotion, manage the campaign, and review its recorded performance in the promotions workspace.
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SaaS product discovery
Find tools built by people you can meet.
Browse SaaS products by category and explore what founders are building. Read product pages, discover related tools, and follow the people sharing the decisions behind their products.
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Following feed
Stay close to the work that interests you.
Follow founders and products to keep up with their public updates. Use your Following feed to return to the people, launches, and product journeys you’ve chosen to follow.
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Saved posts
Keep the lessons you want to come back to.
Save useful community posts to your personal collection. Revisit a founder’s lesson, a product idea, or a practical discussion without searching through your feed again.
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Community polls
Ask a clear question. Learn from the answers.
Add a poll to a community post to hear from fellow builders. Compare opinions on product ideas or next steps, then use the conversation to understand the reasons behind each choice.
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Explore Tags
Find the conversations in your lane.
Browse and search community hashtags to discover relevant build-in-public discussions. Explore popular topics, recent posts, and new conversations around SaaS, product feedback, and founder life.
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Founder momentum
Meet the builders showing up.
Explore the founder momentum leaderboard to discover people taking part in the community. Open their profiles, read their public work, and find a conversation you can contribute to.
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Product website import
Give your product page a head start.
Add your product’s website to bring its details into Buildside. Review the imported description, screenshots, features, and detected technology stack, then refine your product’s public story.
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Buildside developer API
Build useful tools around the community.
Connect your applications to public founder and product data through the Buildside API. Explore documented endpoints, search and filter results, and test an integration in the developer sandbox.
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Founder Cards
Discover a new founder, one card at a time.
Get a focused introduction to the people building on Buildside. Browse founder cards, learn what each person is working on, and open a profile when someone catches your interest.
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