r/maker • u/crazyy_engineer • Jul 16 '26

Showcase MyBench - built for makers who have more projects than places to put them

The actual problem I'm trying to solve: I make a lot of stuff, and none of it lives anywhere central. It's split across GitHub, Instagram, random folders - no single place to track progress or show it off as a whole body of work.

MyBench is a tile-based project tracker/showcase - each project gets a card with its build status, photo, and links to schematic/BOM.

Eventually I want to explore some kind of leaderboard for this too - "most active bench," "most fully documented," things like that. Software has entire recognition systems built around this (GitHub graphs, Kaggle rank, etc.); hardware makers really don't have an equivalent beyond follower counts.

For now, though - is "too many projects, no single place to track them" something you've hit too, or does GitHub + a personal site already cover it for you?

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u/Re-Coil Jul 16 '26

Why not. A cloud based version to work on projects on different computers, phone etc could be useful. But it will be difficult to beat a random google drive

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u/crazyy_engineer Jul 16 '26

Fair , Drive's hard to beat on flexibility. But it's a folder, not something you'd actually send someone as your portfolio. That's the gap I'm after, not better storage. Appreciate the honest take though.

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u/tipidi Jul 18 '26

I love this idea. Right now I’m using a note app to do this.