X Communities is shutting down May 30. Here's what I built for builders who need a permanent home.

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X Communities shuts down May 30.

If you've been using the #buildinpublic community there to document your indie dev journey — that timeline is gone. The posts, the context, the progress log you've been building for months.

I've been in the same boat. I build things in public and I want a record of it that doesn't disappear when a platform decides to restructure, pivot, or shut down.

So I built Openstage.

What it is

A public profile page for builders. Your URL is openstage.dev/yourusername.

Connect GitHub and your commits start flowing into your timeline automatically. Add milestones, shipped features, links, notes manually. It becomes a living record of what you built and when.

Here's mine: openstage.dev/tuxnotfound

Why it's different

Most build-in-public tools are either:

Social feeds (Twitter, IH) — ephemeral, algorithm-dependent, rented space
Changelogs (GitHub releases) — dev-facing, not built for public storytelling
Personal blogs — great but manual and slow

Openstage sits in the gap: a public-facing builder profile that maintains itself from your GitHub activity, permanent, and fully yours.