Community categories
How the community gallery groups public projects — the six categories, who picks them, and how browsing works.
The Layout community page groups public projects into categories so people can browse by the kind of app they want to see. This page explains what the categories are, who decides which one a project belongs to, and how the grouping shows up in the UI.
Why it matters
The community gallery is how other builders find your project. Knowing how categories work tells you what to expect when you publish, and why your project lands where it lands.
The six categories
Every project can sit in one of six buckets:
- Dashboard — analytics, reporting, admin consoles
- Internal — internal tools and business apps
- Website — full websites with multiple pages
- Prototype — experimental or proof-of-concept projects
- Landing page — single-page marketing or launch pages
- Personal — personal or hobby projects
A seventh tab, Discover, shows projects across every category.
Who picks the category
The AI does. When Layout builds a project, it looks at what the project is and writes one of the six values into the project's metadata — the same way it names the project. You do not pick the category in a form, and there is no category selector in the workspace.
The category can shift over time as the project changes shape. If the AI reframes what the project is during a later build, it can update the category to match.
Your description drives the category. A clear first prompt — "an analytics dashboard for Shopify orders," "a landing page for a coffee subscription" — tends to land the project in the bucket you expect.
How users browse
On the Layout community page, the category tabs sit at the top of the project grid. Clicking a tab filters the grid to projects in that category. The grid paginates with a Load More button at the bottom.
Only public projects appear. Private projects never show up. A newly-public project can take a moment to surface in the gallery while it is queued for review.
If you unsubscribe from a paid plan, all of your private projects will become public and may appear in the community gallery.
What this is not
- Not a manual filter you set. The workspace does not expose a category picker. Asking the AI to "change the category" is not a documented action — prompt-writing to reshape the project is the lever.
- Not a tag system. A project has one category at a time, not many.
- Not a visibility setting. Category decides where a public project appears. Visibility decides whether it appears.