Your portfolio. Built every time you ship.

The Portfolio Problem Every Developer Knows

You have shipped projects. Maybe three, maybe ten. But does anyone know?

Your GitHub profile shows 47 repositories. Most of them are abandoned experiments, tutorial follow-alongs, and forks you never touched again. The three projects you actually finished and deployed are buried in the noise. Pinned repos help, but they show commits and stars - not what you built, how long it took, or what tech you used.

So you think about building a portfolio site. You buy a domain. You start a Next.js project. You spend a weekend on the design. Then you get distracted by an actual product idea, and your portfolio joins the graveyard of unfinished projects. The irony is not lost on you.

The Public Wall solves this by making your portfolio a side effect of shipping. You do not build it. You do not maintain it. You ship projects through FoundStep, and your portfolio builds itself.

A Portfolio That Builds Itself

Every project you ship through FoundStep automatically gets a public page. Your profile page aggregates everything into a single URL you can share anywhere.

No static site generator. No design decisions. No "I should really update my portfolio" guilt. Ship a project on Monday, and by Tuesday your portfolio already reflects it.

This matters because the hardest part of having a portfolio is not the initial build - it is keeping it current. Every developer has a portfolio site that is two projects behind. The Public Wall cannot fall behind because it is generated from your actual shipping history.

What Your Public Profile Shows

Your profile page at foundstep.com/wall/@username is your developer identity:

• Cover image and avatar - Make it yours
• Bio and caption - Tell visitors who you are and what you build
• Social links - GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more - one click away
• Follower and following counts - Build your developer network
• Total project stars - Social proof across all your shipped work
• Project grid - Every shipped project in a filterable, sortable layout

Visitors can filter your projects by category (SaaS, CLI Tool, Chrome Extension, Mobile App) and sort by newest, oldest, fastest ship time, or alphabetically. The grid shows project covers, tech stack pills, category badges, version numbers, and star counts at a glance.

What Each Project Page Shows

Click into any project and visitors see the full story:

• Cover image and project icon - Visual identity for your project
• Category and type badges - SaaS, CLI, Chrome Extension with Shipped/In Progress/Building status
• Version number - Semantic versioning shows maturity
• Launch date and days to ship - How long it took from start to ship
• Features list - Every feature with its status: completed, in progress, or planned
• Tech stack - Color-coded by category (Framework, Language, Database, Tool)
• Screenshots - A gallery showing your project in action
• Video links - Demo videos and walkthroughs
• Build timeline - A milestone-by-milestone view of your development journey

The build timeline is particularly powerful. It shows every milestone from project creation to ship date, giving visitors insight into your development process. For developers who build in public, this is the story your audience wants to see.

Social Features for Developers

The Public Wall includes lightweight social features designed for indie developers:

Follow - Follow builders whose work you admire. Your follower count appears on your profile as social proof.

Star - Star individual projects. Project stars aggregate into your total star count on your profile.

Share - Every profile and project has short URLs designed for social media. Rich previews with OpenGraph and Twitter Card metadata mean your links look professional everywhere.

These features are intentionally lightweight. The Public Wall is not a social network. It is a portfolio with just enough social proof to make your shipped work discoverable.

SEO Without Configuration

Every page on your Public Wall is optimized for search engines out of the box:

• Schema.org structured data - ProfilePage for your profile, SoftwareApplication for each project, BreadcrumbList for navigation
• OpenGraph tags - Rich previews on Facebook, LinkedIn, Discord, and everywhere else
• Twitter Cards - Optimized previews for Twitter/X sharing
• Canonical URLs - No duplicate content issues
• Semantic HTML - Accessible and crawlable by default

You do not configure any of this. Ship a project, and the SEO handles itself.

Harbor Is Private. Public Wall Is Public.

These two features work together but serve different purposes:

The Harbor is your private achievement wall. It tracks scope discipline, unlock counts, and shipping velocity. It is where you reflect on your own progress and hold yourself accountable.

The Public Wall is your public portfolio. It shows the world what you have built - with rich detail, social features, and SEO. It is where you build credibility and attract an audience.

Ship a project, and it appears in both. The Harbor keeps you honest. The Public Wall makes you visible.