proof of work, not promises

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the gap

Follower count was never proof of work.

the quiet shipper

You ship real work. Repos, features, products. Most of it never gets seen, because you'd rather build than post about building.

the overlooked creator

Your threads, your writing, your community work is good. It just sits next to accounts with ten times the followers and none of the substance.

The Darkroom scores what you actually shipped, not how loud you were about it.

the room score

Not a black box. Three real things, weighted.

Social Proof35%

X/Twitter presence, engagement quality, community signal.

Builder Proof35%

Evidence of actual building: technical content, projects shipped, public learning.

Work Proof30%

Submitted links to real work, validated by 3 community endorsements.

(social × 0.35)+(builder × 0.35)+(work × 0.30)

No single metric carries you. Refresh it any time, once every 24h, re-analyzed from your latest activity.

9 archetypes

The room names you. You earn the name.

≥62Ghost Builderships in the dark, drops in the light
≥56Silent Architectthe blueprint speaks for itself
≥50Shadow Operatoryou won't see me, but you'll see my work
≥44Half Builtfoundation solid, still stacking floors
≥38Curious Lurkerreads everything, ships soon
≥32Almost Basedone commit away from greatness
≥22Main Character Loadingthe arc hasn't even started
≥14Fresh Compilefirst build, first bugs, first glory
<14NPC (for now)everyone's origin story starts somewhere

work proof & plugs

The one score you can't self-report.

Submit a real link: a GitHub repo, a deployed project, an article, a prototype. It sits locked at zero until the room backs it.

3 plugs from real builders and it flips from claim to validated. No plugs, no count. Consensus can't be faked.

Daily Refresh re-analyzes your latest activity once every 24 hours, on demand. Your score, on your terms.

Submit Proofworth 8 pts
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Shipped the v2 onboarding flow
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Ship

Shipped the v2 onboarding flow

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Code

Open-sourced the auth middleware

Validated
Darkroom IDthedarkroom.xyz/p/handle
57
Silent Architect

SOCIAL

62

BUILDER

58

WORK

49

your room, your card

A public profile that's actually yours to prove.

Every builder gets a public Darkroom ID at /p/[handle]. Score, archetype, and every validated proof, in one link.

Share it as a Darkroom Card, a single image with your score and archetype, built to travel.

Submit your first validated proof and you unlock the Roomboard, the public ranking, sorted by real score, not followers.

Proof of work, not promises.

Go see where you land

60 seconds · proof-gated · free for builders