It's a community driven platform where failure is not something to hide but something to celebrate. It’s designed to share honest stories of setbacks and rejections and lessons learned: all the stuff LinkedIn filters out.

📝 Project Insights

Stars	Forks	Issues	Open PRs	Closed PRs	Languages

📂 Features

• 📢 Post your rejections, failures and real lessons learned
• 🔍 Browse stories by category:
  • Startup Crashes
  • Interview Wrecks
  • Project Chaos
  • and more coming soon
• 🖥️ Smart AI validation for respectful, safe and constructive content

🛠️ Technology Stack

• Frontend: Next.js + TypeScript
• Backend: Next.js API routes
• Database & Auth: Firebase
• AI Validation: Gemini

⚙️ Setup Instructions

📦 Scripts

Command	Description
npm run dev	Run the development server
npm run build	Build project for production
npm start	Start production server
npm run lint	Run linter checks

NOTE: 📦 project manager

previously used pnpm but the project now runs entirely on npm !!

Local Development:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/fail-u-forward.git

2. Move into the project directory

cd fail-u-forward

3. Install dependencies

npm install

4. Start the dev server

npm run dev

🛣️ What's Next:

• anonymous posting support
• filters by topic (eg career, academics, personal)
• voice/video storytelling support follow feature to allow users to follow each other

📩 Contact

• Github: mansiruhil
• LinkedIn: mansiruhil
• Discord: failuforward

📄 license:

this project is licensed under the MIT License