Prayer community
Got Prayers
A place to ask for prayer without putting your name on the post.
Got Prayers lets people share a prayer request without showing their name publicly, let someone know they are praying, follow requests, and share updates or answered prayers.
Public landing page. No prayer requests or account information are shown.
The problem
Why I built it
Sometimes a person wants prayer but does not want their name or social circle tied to a public post.
A useful prayer site also has to answer harder questions: how do you let someone know they were heard, protect vulnerable posts, and make room for an update later?
Architecture
How it works
Capabilities
What it can do
Security
Security boundaries
- Public prayer cards use general labels instead of names.
- Requests remain tied to the account that created them so the author can update, mark answered, or remove the post.
- Submissions reject links, contact details, fundraising language, payment handles, and wallet addresses.
- Sensitive requests can be blurred behind a content note, and other users can report a post for review.
Tradeoffs
Choices that shaped it
Anonymous to the community, owned by the author
The public post does not show a name, but the request still belongs to the person who submitted it. That gives them a private way to return, add an update, mark it answered, or remove it.
Let prayer leave a visible trace
Praying Now is intentionally small. It gives the person behind a request a quiet sign that someone saw it and stopped to pray.
Current state
Where it stands
- Prayer feed with categories and least-prayed requests first
- Praying Now acknowledgements with duplicate protection
- Request updates, follows, and answered-prayer testimonies
- Submission filters, sensitive-content gates, and reporting
- Ongoing moderation and abuse-prevention work
- More useful follow-up and notification controls
- Private source while the hosted application matures
Lessons
What I learned
- Anonymous does not mean unaccountable; ownership and moderation still matter behind the public post.
- A small acknowledgment can make the difference between posting into a void and feeling heard.
- People share difficult things in prayer requests, so safety checks and content warnings cannot be an afterthought.