
I got tired of watching real progress disappear into feeds and algorithms.
Every time I shared an update, it became another isolated post. People might see a milestone, but they couldn’t really follow the story behind it. That felt like the real problem to me: most social platforms reward highlights and short attention, not the slow, messy process of building something over time.
I kept trying to force those platforms to work for build in public. They never really did.
So I built Alongly - a place designed for the full build-in-public journey.
With Alongly, you can:
document the whole story in one place
share progress in sequence, as it actually happens
build with teammates under the same journey
let people follow along from day one
learn from how other builders are actually building
No scattered updates. No broken story. Just a better way to share the process as it unfolds.
Building in public? Check out Alongly: https://www.alongly.app




Just a few suggestions, Should be accessible from browser as well and the front page should showcase the feed that might create more engagement and potential users can see what it looks like and be more inclined to signup.
Yep, Totally agree. We're already working on a web version that should be coming soon.
I like that you're optimizing for continuity instead of visibility.
Building in public isn't really about individual updates—it's about helping people understand how one decision led to the next. A continuous narrative creates much more value than a feed of isolated milestones.
Really appreciate this.
That's exactly it. A single update can be nice, but without the thread and connections between updates you lose the actual story of how something got built.
One thing I'd keep testing is whether people come back to follow the project or to follow your thinking.
Projects eventually end. A way of reasoning about decisions can keep people interested across everything you build next.
That’s a really good point and honestly it makes a lot of sense. You can see it in a lot of fields people end up following the person not just whichever project they're working on at the time.