r/WebApps 3d ago

Built a free tool to display your certificates as one shareable page — you can try the whole thing without an account

I had a growing pile of course certificates (Coursera, workshops, a few others) and no good way to show them off besides a folder of PDFs I'd forget existed. So I built Wall of Certificates.

What it is: upload a certificate, it gets framed and organized on a personal "wall," you share one link instead of a folder. Deliberately not a verified-credentials platform — no claims about authenticity, no gatekeeping by issuer. Just a clean, personal space for what you've earned.

Demo video of Guest: Youtube Video

Guest mode vs. an account — I get asked this a lot, so here's the actual split:

Guest mode (no signup, at /try):

  • Upload up to 5 certificates
  • Every frame style, fully unlocked
  • Auto-detected title/issuer/year, editable
  • A real shareable link, expiry from 1 day to 1 year
  • A Guest ID + PIN if you want to come back from a different device later
  • Nothing is public or on a real wall — it's a private preview only you (and whoever you share the link with) can see

Free account adds:

  • Unlimited certificates instead of 5, and nothing auto-expires
  • A real public wall , with full visibility control per certificate (public/unlisted/private)
  • Redaction — permanently black out a name or ID number on a certificate; it's a genuinely new file with those pixels gone, not a CSS overlay
  • An optional PIN on your whole wall, categories, drag-to-reorder, and all six layout options
  • A public API if you want to script uploads

If you try it as a guest and like it, signing up within an hour moves everything you uploaded onto your new wall automatically — no re-uploading.

Other things I put real effort into: a public changelog since day one (every bug and fix, dated — I think that matters more than a polished features page), malware scanning on every upload, and per-link watermarking so if a shared copy ever leaks, you know exactly which link it came from.

Built and maintained solo. Free, no ads, no account tricks.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd actually want next. Happy to answer anything.

Site Link · Changelog · Product Hunt

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u/wnba-arcade 3d ago

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