`I've been building Rubies Unleashed — an open publishing platform for indie games, apps, and digital projects — for about six months now. It started as a simple way to surface cool things people are building. Then it grew into something I didn't fully anticipate: a platform where creators and their audiences actually needed tools to connect.
So we built them.
Here's what's new for everyone who uses the platform — not as a creator, but as a visitor, a fan, a collector, or just someone curious about what indie builders are shipping.
Wishlists — save what matters to you
You can now wishlist any project on Rubies Unleashed. Games, apps, tools — anything published on the platform.
It's not just a bookmark. Your wishlist is public (or private, your call in settings). Other people can browse it. Creators can see how many people have saved their work. It feeds into the platform's discovery engine — the more a project gets wishlisted, the more it surfaces in trending and Editor's Choice.
And it means something to creators. When someone wishlists your project at 2am, you know it landed.
Reviews — real feedback with developer replies
Every published project now has a review section. Star rating (1–5), written review, and here's the part I'm particularly proud of: developers can reply directly to reviews.
That's rare on platforms like this. Usually reviews disappear into a void. Here, a creator can respond to criticism, thank someone for kind words, or clarify something that confused a reviewer. It turns reviews into actual conversations.
A few other details worth knowing:
- Reviews are tied to your account, so they're real — no anonymous pile-ons
- Rating distribution chart shows on every project page (so you can see at a glance if a 4.2 average has one outlier or a genuine split)
- Your review notifications link directly to the anchor on the page — click and it scrolls you straight to your review
Community Hub — see the whole platform alive
This is the one I'm most excited about.
We built a dedicated /community page that shows everything happening on Rubies Unleashed in real time.
Live Activity Feed — every publish, update, review, wishlist, and changelog event from across the platform. It refreshes every 30 seconds. You can genuinely watch the platform breathe.
Hall of Fame — dynamically computed from real engagement data, updated daily:
- Top Publisher
- Top Rated Creator
- Top Critic (most reviews written)
- Top Collector (most wishlisted)
- Top Curator
- Most Wishlisted Project
- Most Viewed Project
None of these are manually curated. They're earned.
Weekly Digest — Editor's Choice picks of the week, recent project changelogs, and automatic milestones. When a project hits a meaningful threshold — 100 wishlists, 1,000 views, a rating milestone — it shows up here without anyone having to manually announce it.
Discord announcements on the site — our Discord announcements channel pulls directly into the community page via API. If you're not on Discord but want to know what's happening with the platform, it's all right there.
Platform stats — total projects, registered users, wishlist saves, and reviews. Filtered to real, published, active content only. No inflated numbers.
Emails — platform updates that are actually worth opening
We built a full email system around these features.
When you join, you get a welcome email. When your password changes, you get notified. But the two worth calling out:
Weekly digest — Editor's Choice projects, recent activity highlights, and platform milestones. Sent weekly to users who opt in. Not a marketing email. An actual digest of what's happening on the platform.
Monthly recap — a summary of what shipped in the past month. Good for people who don't check in every week but want to stay in the loop.
You can unsubscribe from any of these independently. We're not going to spam you.
Where things stand
80 projects live on the platform. 67 registered creators. All of this — wishlists, reviews, the community hub, the email system — is free, with no ads.
Rubies Unleashed is an open platform. Anyone can publish. Anyone can discover. The goal was always to give indie projects the infrastructure that only big studios used to have access to.
We're getting there.
→ rubiesunleashed.app/community
Daniel Oluwatunmibi — Founder, Rubies Unleashed. Solo builder working on open infrastructure for indie creators.
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