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How I AI · Monday, October 26, 2026

Internal Prototypes at Reddit Are Public by Default with 700 Active Projects

Blair Metcalf shared that internal prototypes built using Reddit Proto are public by default, fostering an environment of open exploration where roughly 700 prototypes currently exist. The team is now developing a searchable console to help scale discovery across teams, tags, and devices.

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“Right now there's about 700. The problem with this is it doesn't scale. That list doesn't scale. So what we're working on now is a very searchable console.”
Blair Metcalf
“So all of these prototypes public? Are prototypes public by default or private by default? ... Right. So internally, they're all public. That's amazing.”
Clara Vaux
Heard on How I AI — “Why Reddit built its own AI prototyping tool | Blair Metcalf”, published Monday, October 26, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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