Community guidelines

ibuildinpublic is a home for builders who share real work in public: builder pages, product pages, experiences, community posts, Quick review, Podcast discussions, and group chat.

The community works best when people are specific, honest, and respectful. Show what you are building, what you learned, and how you want to collaborate.

Published builder pages, product pages, experiences, and posts are public. Anyone with the link can read them.

Keep titles, pitches, bios, and write-ups accurate. Do not present mockups, ideas, or plans as shipped products unless you say so clearly.

Experiences should reflect your own work or lessons. Posts should be genuine updates or asks with enough context for others to respond.

You choose what to publish, but the platform is designed for public-by-default building in public.

Share work you are actually building, shipping, or have shipped.

Write experiences that are useful to other builders: what you tried, what worked, what failed, or what you learned.

Post in the right topic when it helps, and include enough detail for someone to understand your ask.

Use involvement options honestly so visitors know how you want to collaborate.

Leave comments and likes that add value. Thoughtful engagement helps everyone.

Follow builders and products you genuinely want to stay close to.

Respond to contact requests in good faith when you accept them.

Harass, threaten, or discriminate against others.

Post spam, scams, malware links, or misleading promotions.

Impersonate others or misrepresent your products, traction, or credentials.

Upload content you do not have rights to share.

Use contact requests or involvement options for unsolicited sales pitches or mass outreach.

Game Builder XP with fake engagement, follow/unfollow loops, or automated activity.

Scrape, spam, or abuse platform systems.

Involvement options on builder and product pages describe how you want to collaborate, such as beta testers, design help, or co-founder match.

Contact requests should be tied to a specific involvement option and sent in good faith. Keep first messages short, relevant, and respectful.

Page owners can accept or ignore contact requests. Accepted contacts move into Inbox for conversation.

Do not use contact requests to bypass someone’s boundaries or flood them with unrelated messages.

Quick review is for honest, constructive feedback on live product pages. Keep answers specific and respectful. Do not use reviews for harassment, spam, or unrelated promotion.

Reviews you submit should reflect your genuine first impressions. Do not coordinate fake reviews or retaliate against builders who reviewed your work.

Podcast episodes are synced from the Build with Maya YouTube channel. Comments and likes in the Podcast hub follow the same respect standards as the rest of the platform.

Stay on topic in episode discussions. Do not post spam links, personal attacks, or copyrighted material you do not have rights to share.

Group chat is the community thread for builders to discuss shipping, feedback, and collaboration. Signed-in members can participate; guests can browse a preview before signing up.

Keep messages constructive and on topic. No harassment, spam, scams, or unsolicited mass outreach.

Do not share private information you do not have permission to post. What you write in group chat may be visible to other participants.

We may remove messages or restrict chat access for violations, the same as other community content.

Signed-in builders can like and comment on published experiences, posts, and podcast episodes.

Comments should stay on topic and constructive. Personal attacks, slurs, and baiting are not allowed.

Builder XP rewards genuine activity such as publishing, visiting pages, following, sending contact requests, and engaging on content.

Do not manipulate XP with low-effort spam, coordinated fake engagement, or repeated follow/unfollow behavior.

We may remove content, hide posts from Feed, restrict features, or suspend accounts that break these guidelines.

Severe or repeated violations may result in permanent removal from the platform.

We may update these guidelines as the product evolves. Continued use of ibuildinpublic means you follow the current version on this page.

See something wrong? Email support@ibuildinpublic.com with the URL and a short description of what happened.

Include screenshots or message context when helpful. We review reports as quickly as we can.