AfterBuild is where makers launch products and keep shipping after launch: a daily launch board, a public build log, and a weekly digest that tells everyone what happened next.
Free for makers. No credit card required.
Home to 2,400+ makers·14 launched this Friday
Pagewell
Turn your README into a landing page in one click
Quietcal
A calendar that defends your focus time
Shipnote
Changelogs your users actually read
Tilesmith
Every app icon size from one SVG
free for makers · live every weekday
Launched on AfterBuild
Features
A board for launch day, and a log for every day after it.
A fresh board opens every weekday. Makers launch, the community upvotes, and the order updates as the votes land. The top of the day earns a badge to keep.
Pagewell
Turn your README into a landing page in one click
Quietcal
A calendar that defends your focus time
Shipnote
Changelogs your users actually read
Tilesmith
Every app icon size from one SVG
Plainbooks
Bookkeeping that finally speaks plain English
Every product gets a public log. Post a release, a milestone or a lesson in one line, and it reaches the people who upvoted you.
Pagewell shipped v1.2
Dark mode and custom domains
Loopback reached 100 paying teams
Milestone
Shipnote opened its API
Update
One email every Monday: the week's best launches and what they shipped after.
This week: 14 launches, 3 comebacks
Your launches, upvotes and streak on one page you can link to.
Jo R.
Maker of Pagewell
A single, clearly labelled slot keeps the board ad-light and free for makers.
Hostline
Deploy a side project with one command. AfterBuild members get their first month free.
Filter the board by what a product is built for, from dev tools to design.
Show your rank on your own site with a badge that keeps itself up to date.
Launched on AfterBuild
#1 of the day
<a href="https://afterbuild.example/pagewell">
<img src="/badge/pagewell.svg"
alt="#1 of the day" />
</a>Comments sit under the launch and makers reply right there. Nothing disappears when the day resets.
Ana T. · 2h
Does it handle monorepos?
Jo R.maker
Yes. Point it at a folder, and workspaces are coming in v1.3.
Story
Ada Reyes, Noel Park & Iris Calder
co-founders of AfterBuild
Launch day is loud. For one day your product sits at the top of a list, people click, upvote and say kind things. Then the list resets, and the real work starts, quietly.
That quiet part is where products actually get made: the v1.1 nobody saw, the first paying customer, the bug you fixed at midnight, the feature three people asked for. Almost none of it has a home.
Launch sites are built around one day. Build-in-public feeds are built around noise. We wanted something in between: a board for launch day and a log for every day after it, in one place.
So every launch on AfterBuild gets a public build log. Every update reaches the people who upvoted, and the best of the week lands in a single email every Monday.
One question kept coming back,
"What happens to a product the day after it launches, and who gets to see it?"
AfterBuild is our answer: a launch board that doesn't stop at the launch. It is free for makers, funded by one clearly labelled sponsor a week, and built in public.
If you are shipping something, launch it here. Then keep building, and let people watch.
Makers
What makers say after a few weeks on AfterBuild.
“Launch day sent 900 visitors. The build log is the reason 40 of them came back.”
Jo R.
Maker of Pagewell
“I post one line after every release. That line has become my best source of feedback.”
Ana T.
Maker of Quietcal
“The Weekly Build featured my changelog tool, and it doubled my signups.”
Leo M.
Maker of Shipnote
“I stopped treating launch as a finish line. The log keeps me honest about what I ship next.”
Rin S.
Maker of Tilesmith
“Sponsoring a week put us in front of exactly the people who ship side projects.”
Dana W.
Founder of Hostline
“Comments under the launch stay there. Months later, someone found us through one.”
Dee K.
Maker of Plainbooks
Pro & Sponsors
Every maker launches for free. Pro adds the tools for the weeks after launch day, and sponsors keep the board ad-light.
Pro saves 22% when billed yearly
$0forever
Launch on the board, keep a public build log and get a maker profile.
Start for freeEvery maker
$7per month, billed yearly
Everything in Free, plus the tools for the weeks after launch day.
Go ProMakers who keep shipping
$249per week
One clearly labelled slot a week, on the board and in the Monday email.
Book a weekTeams that sell to makers
Every plan side by side, how sponsorship works and the small print.
See Pro & SponsorsYes. Launching, the build log and a maker profile are free for every maker. Pro adds analytics, scheduling and a custom domain for your log, and sponsors pay for the slot that keeps the board ad-light.
A launch takes five minutes and a build log takes one line. Free for makers, with nothing to install.