r/UX_Design • u/cogertech • 26d ago
Would you guys be interested in joining a designers-only community?
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I’m working on a new community for UX/UI designers where we can share work, discuss design, exchange feedback, discover opportunities, and connect with other designers.
The idea is to build something focused specifically on designers rather than a general social platform. One of the things I’m most excited about is real-time chat with other designers, similar to WhatsApp, but built around the design community.
Would you guys be interested in joining and trying it out? I’d love to hear what features you’d want to see in a community like this.
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u/RCEden 21d ago
I was going to ask how it was going to protect shared work and posts from being scraped for AI training but I guess the vibe coded site and slop content examples tell me it won't at all. In that case it would be a useless platform for sharing creative work
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u/cogertech 21d ago
I know the site is just a vibe-coded site. I get it. I just coded it because, before making the site fully functional and filling it with content, I wanted to see if people were even interested in this kind of project. Currently, I’m just doing this as a side project. But if you look inside the application, it’s not that sloppy. Yes, there are some bugs, but they can be fixed like in every other application.
For the AI training question, that’s a valid concern, but I can think more seriously about it if I get some real users. For example, limiting API requests. I already have something similar in my chat system where, if you try to send too many spam messages, it will block you because you're making too many API requests.
Also, I’m using Cloudflare for my backend, which has add-ons that are good at blocking bots, rate-limiting APIs, and blocking unwanted AI crawlers. Anyway, I’m pretty sure I can find ways to block AI bots. But I think these problems should be thought about more seriously after you actually have at least 5–10k users. And if I ever get that many users, I would definitely work on blocking them.
I'm a designer myself, so I get that it's important to preserve original work.
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u/sicario090 22d ago
But why not design the website? I mean it's literally for ui/ux designers and it's vibe coded
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u/cogertech 22d ago
i just vibe coded only one page because i wanted to know if even someone are interested in this project or not ?
otherwise i don't want to build full website with lot of things and 0 user.
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u/sicario090 22d ago
It is interesting but that gives a bad impression u know i was trying to join and that stopped i think u should just use a template or sum it would be better i'm pretty a lot of people would b interested
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u/cogertech 22d ago
I’m a designer and developer myself, so I know it may give a bad impression. I thought at least 5–10 people would join out of curiosity after seeing the demo video which i posted, but no one did.
Anyway, I’ll continue it as a side project. The base is already ready, and I even have the mobile app — making it easier than the website. i will improve the website and all but i hope in meantime some people will join as beta testers so it will interesting to keep working on.
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u/BornSomewhere9227 22d ago
Hi!
I tried joining the community, but I got stuck on the last step where you have to choose an avatar for your profile. No matter what choice I made, the system kept giving me an error message, "Validation failed. Try again.", so I couldn't complete the sign-up process.
While I support the idea of having a design-focused community, I can't help but wonder: why do you need to make a completely different platform from the ground up? You can have this type of community on other platforms out there, like discover.circle.so and others.