Run every side project from one place
Most indie hackers aren't short on ideas — they're short on a way to keep track of the ten they've already started. Hark gives every idea a home, a stage, and a record of what happened, so nothing quietly disappears just because you switched to something shinier for a week.
One board, every idea, one real stage each
Every idea sits in exactly one of six stages: Vault for raw sparks, Recon for validating whether it's worth building, Blueprint for the spec, Fabrication for actually building it, Live once it's shipped, and Cold Storage for anything you're parking. Moving something forward is one action, not a renegotiation with your own memory of where you left off.
Read the full walkthrough of the pipeline and the project page on the
Cold Storage instead of the graveyard
Side projects don't usually die from a decision — they die from silence. You stop opening the repo, the notes scatter across three note apps, and eventually you can't remember why you made half the choices you did. Cold Storage is the deliberate version of that pause: the project page, the journal, and the decisions stay exactly where they were, so picking a project back up means reading a summary, not spelunking through old commits.
- The Business tab keeps the thesis, problem, audience, and competition so you don't have to re-argue the idea with yourself.
- The journal records ships, decisions, and sessions with dates, so you can see how long it's actually been dormant.
- Nothing is deleted when you park it — moving to Cold Storage is reversible any time.
Building in public without a separate content pipeline
A public project page is a real page at your own /v/:slug URL with a Completeness % completeness score, Current state, and journal, plus a listing in Open Studio at
. You get a badge image for a README or site footer and an auto-generated social preview, without keeping a blog in sync with what you're actually doing.
Unlisted is the middle ground: a shareable link for a co-founder or a curious follower without appearing in the public gallery at all.
Turning your week into an update
The progress-update copy tool reads your Current state and recent journal entries and drafts an update in plain text, Markdown, or an X-thread format. It's a starting point you edit, not a black box — the point is to skip the blank page, not to write your voice for you.
If you're also weighing Hark against a wiki or a project tracker, see the honest comparisons on
once you're ready to let an agent write to the same project page you do.
Common questions
- I have a dozen half-started ideas. Where do they go?
- Into the Vault, the first pipeline stage for raw sparks. From there each idea moves through Recon (validate), Blueprint (spec), Fabrication (build), Live, or gets set aside in Cold Storage — so you always know what stage everything's actually at, instead of guessing from memory.
- What happens when I lose interest in a project for a while?
- You park it in Cold Storage instead of deleting it. The project, journal, and decisions stay intact, so when you come back in three months you're reading your own notes instead of reverse-engineering old code.
- How do I build in public without running a separate blog?
- Publish the project page as public and it gets its own page at /v/:slug plus a listing in Open Studio, Hark's shared gallery of builds in progress. Followers get notified when you log a ship in the journal.
- Do I have to write my own progress-update posts by hand?
- No — the progress-update copy tool turns your Current state and recent journal entries into plain text, Markdown, or an X-thread draft, so writing the update takes minutes instead of becoming its own chore.
- Can I run all my projects on one plan?
- Builder is built for exactly this: unlimited projects on one seat, with every new workshop starting on a free 14-day trial with no card. See src/lib/plans.ts-backed pricing on the pricing section of the homepage.
Free 14-day trial, no card. Bring your messiest idea list first.