Projects
What counts as a project on Forge, how it's presented, and how people find it.
Info sections
What counts as a project
Anything that runs: a link someone can open, or a build they can install. Not a screenshot, not a pitch deck, not a repo nobody can start. The category doesn't matter as much as whether it actually works.
- Web app
- Mobile app
- Game
- Tool
- AI
- Other
- Hardware
How it moves through the pipeline
Every project goes through the same stages, in order. Nothing skips the queue and nothing gets promoted for money.
- 1Submitted
- 2Under review
- 3Ready for testing
- 4Testing
- 5Feedback available
- 6Completed
How it's presented
No stock photography. Each project gets a generated thumbnail instead of a screenshot pulled from somewhere else, plus a title, a one-line tagline, and its category and status. That's the whole card — the detail lives on the project's own page.
How feedback works
Feedback is private: only the project owner reads it. Thirty independent opinions beat one opinion repeated thirty times. Bugs are graded critical, major, or minor, and anything that could hurt real users stays unpublished until it's fixed.
Where to go next
Submitting a project happens from your account once you're eligible — this page is about how the system works, not the submission form itself.