Build In Public - Community Edition #1 (Aug 2021)

Hey everyone 👋

Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, it’s a movement.

Thousands of founders, creators, and builders are embracing the principles and building in public especially on Twitter.

On that note, get ready for a quick community round-up highlighting launches and wins from the #buildinpublic community.

Without further ado, let’s get rolling.

LAUNCHES 🚀

• Dawid Zamkowski launched Junior Jobs Only , a hiring platform for junior developers.

• Kilian Poulin is building Mark Copy in public. It is a copywriter using AI.

• Veeraj Mehta and team are building MarketFly in public. They are going to launch it this weekend.

• Sai Kambampati is building Airgift in public, making AR content and creation more accessible.

• Zachary Murray is building Adison, the Pinterest for facebook ads and using the “Unverified Ad Awards” newsletter as their main pre-launch acquisition channel.

• Rinkesh Gorasia and team are building Upskill India, a platform to learn skills.

• Honor V is just launching Social SX, an ecosystem for health and wellness brands.

• Darshan Doshi is building Dasar, a community to achieve health and wealth goals.

• Milan Maheshwari is building Spectrum, a tool that generates beautiful color palettes.

• Graham Gintz has just launched Knightley, a place for founders and investors to connect and make deals.

• Jurelle Govender is building Savvi Stack, marketing tools and resources to grow your business.

• Anna Grigoryan is writing a weekly newsletter on communities called “Community Weekly”.

• Dan Gusz has relaunched Lloyd, a career co-pilot for everyone.

• Deb Mukherjee writes the DTC Fam newsletter, an exclusive newsletter for DTC community.

• Ramsri Goutham Golla is building Questgen, an advanced question generation tool using AI.

• Mohammed Rafy has curated tons of community-building resources on Uncommunity.

• Dan Capelle is building Erly, making same-day delivery for DTC brands.

• Joel Rosen is going to launch Paytable, a membership platform for airtable curators. They are going to launch beta version soon.

• Jens is building Feedletter, a feedback tool for newsletters.

• Nikita Jerschow is building Figment, to turn figma designs into beautiful websites. He is launching the beta version this week.

• Jesse Hercules is building ContactLink, a link for your contact info.

• Soo Jung Han is launching BrightOn, a platform to organize charity events at restaurants.

• Michelle Wirantono is building TypeDream in public. It helps you build a beautiful website.

• Vinam Suri has just published the first edition of his newsletter S.I.P with Suri, about money.

• Richard Chu just launched Notabase, a knowledge base for networked thinking.

• Arjay has launched PlayTyme Partners by building in public.

• Sarim Malik is building Neat, a tool to turn notifications into checklists.

• Roohi Kazi has built Ultimate podcast guide in public. It’s a podcast dashboard organization system.

• Aaron Francis is building Torchlight - the API for syntax highlighting.

• Tommy B is building Meerkat, a matching app designed for families. Expected release in September.

• Avi Gupta is building CourseNest, to find best cohort-based courses.

• Maximilian Fleitmann launched Base templates, providing cost-efficient templates and services.

• Olu has built Prelo, a platform to discover tech startups.

• Darshan Gajara publishes a newsletter every 2 weeks called “Product Disrupt”, to help people learn product design and create digital products.

• Roberto Robles has launched KatLinks, an SEO tool to boost your rankings.

• Zayn Patel has launched VC Academy, to teach people how to acquire capital for companies.

• Madhuri just launched Maker Shots, a learning repository for designers, no-coders and product managers.

• Rahul Sikka publishes a daily newsletter called “dailyPM”, sharing great product management content.

• Vlad Cazacu has launched Flowlie, a next-gen data infrastructure for VCs, founders.. They are on a mission to replace DocSend, Airtable and Google Sheets from fundraising process.

• Simranjeet Singh is building My product hub, a toolkit for product management.

• Professor Beekums is building Dynomantle, to keep track of important bookmarks.

• Jonathan Barone is building Bipdash , a platform to browse threads.

• Drazen Zaric has built blogboard, a platform to read engineering blogs by tech companies.

• Prem has built Leesa, a tool to deliver answers from your knowledge base.

• Stuart is publishing the “Coding climate’s newsletter”, sharing tech solutions to climate issues.

• Matt has launched HarmonyCB (beta) - a no-code/low-code front end builder.

• Sooraj Chauhan is building Tinyschool, a platform to learn important career skills.

• Dashiell Bark-Huss is building Wishtender, a wishlist app for content creators to get gifts from fans.

• Max Musing has launched 100 features to Basedash last week. It’s a tool that makes the databases colloborative.

• JOD has just launched The Jod Pod, a podcast with founders and creators.

• Jos Kuttan is building Aviyel in public. It helps open source projects grow, sustain and monetise.

• Alex publishes his newsletter for founders and investors. It includes a lot of databases and toolkits for founders and investors.

• Kevin has just launched No-code alley, a forum for no-coders.

• Juraj Pal has launched Hammock (private beta as of now)- a newsletter reader.

• Eric Axelrod is building PenPath, offering business intelligence solutions.

• Bhavik has launched Appkaro, a platform to create, publish and promote apps.

• Roman Beylin has launched DueDilio, to hire due-diligence experts.

• Crawford Ifland has launched 3things - a to-do list.

• Gaurav Maniar has launched Simple DMARC, provides a full-fledged email security.

• Cmba Banks has built Home compass - a new way to organize your team.

• Honey Syed is publishing the “Chrome extension ideas” newsletter.

SMALL WINS: 🏆

• Shoutout to Kilian Poulin for crossing $1K MRR for his product Mark Copy.

• A big win for Davis Baer for crossing the $50K MRR milestone for his OneUp app.

• Shoutout to Dan Murray-Serter for crossing $160k+MRR for Heights.

• Andy Cloke’s company Data Fetcher has crossed $3K MRR.

• A big shoutout to Tibo for crossing $2K MRR for his product Tweethunter.

• A big win for Jesse Pujji for crossing the mega milestone of $100K+ MRR for his company GrowthAssistant.

• A great start for Lukas Hermann for crossing 100 pounds+ MRR with Stagetimer.

• Lamine’s MakerLead became the #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt on Aug 16.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

Thanks for reading.

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