diff --git a/scripts/showcase.ts b/scripts/showcase.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a8b8cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/showcase.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/**
+ * Frames for the hqtui.com apps showcase.
+ *
+ * hqtui.com/apps captures screenshots of applications built on the library. The
+ * capture script takes an application directory and imports this file, because
+ * only the application knows what a good state looks like.
+ *
+ * A fixture rather than a live board: the test suite already drives the client
+ * against a real server, and a screenshot needs the opposite property. It has
+ * to be the same on every capture, or the image churns in every diff and
+ * nobody can review what actually changed.
+ *
+ * Built from the real exported types with no casts, so this stops compiling if
+ * the view model moves underneath it.
+ */
+import type { ForumNode, TopicSummary } from '@tsbb/client';
+import { initialState, type State } from '../apps/tui/src/state.ts';
+import { renderApp } from '../apps/tui/src/views.ts';
+
+const DAY = 86_400_000;
+const NOW = Date.parse('2026-09-08T15:00:00.000Z');
+
+const forum = (
+  id: number,
+  slug: string,
+  name: string,
+  description: string,
+  topics: number,
+  posts: number,
+): ForumNode => ({
+  id,
+  slug,
+  name,
+  kind: 'forum',
+  description,
+  topics,
+  posts,
+  children: [],
+});
+
+const topic = (
+  id: number,
+  title: string,
+  author: string,
+  replies: number,
+  views: number,
+  ageDays: number,
+  over: Partial<TopicSummary> = {},
+): TopicSummary => ({
+  id,
+  slug: `t${id}`,
+  title,
+  kind: 'topic',
+  locked: false,
+  solved: false,
+  replies,
+  views,
+  createdAt: NOW - ageDays * DAY,
+  lastPostAt: NOW - Math.floor(ageDays * DAY * 0.4),
+  author,
+  lastPoster: author,
+  unread: false,
+  url: `/t/${id}`,
+  ...over,
+});
+
+const FORUMS: ForumNode[] = [
+  forum(1, 'announcements', 'Announcements', 'Releases and breaking changes', 14, 92),
+  forum(2, 'help', 'Help & Support', 'Questions about using hqtui', 186, 1043),
+  forum(3, 'showcase', 'Showcase', 'What you built with it', 47, 312),
+  forum(4, 'ports', 'Language Ports', 'Rust, Go, Python, Zig, C++, COBOL', 63, 508),
+  forum(5, 'meta', 'Meta', 'About the board itself', 9, 41),
+];
+
+const TOPICS: TopicSummary[] = [
+  topic(101, '0.3.0: styled text spans', 'anthony', 12, 840, 0.2, { unread: true }),
+  topic(102, 'Braille glyphs render wide in headless Chrome', 'anthony', 6, 219, 1.1, { solved: true }),
+  topic(103, 'Collapsed borders across the language ports', 'kai', 23, 1102, 2.4),
+  topic(104, 'Anyone using hqtui for a TUI file manager?', 'rin', 31, 1876, 4.0),
+  topic(105, 'RFC: inline viewports and insertBefore', 'anthony', 18, 964, 5.5),
+  topic(106, 'Zig 0.16 removed getenv — port build broken', 'mara', 9, 402, 7.2, { locked: true }),
+  topic(107, 'Show: a REST client whose requests are files', 'anthony', 27, 2301, 9.8),
+];
+
+const STATE: State = {
+  ...initialState('https://bbs.hqtui.com'),
+  boardName: 'hqtui bbs',
+  me: { authenticated: true, user: { id: 1, username: 'anthony', displayName: 'Anthony', postCount: 412 }, unread: 3 },
+  screen: 'topics',
+  forums: FORUMS.map((node) => ({ node, depth: 0 })),
+  topics: TOPICS,
+  forumName: 'Help & Support',
+  forumSlug: 'help',
+  selected: 2,
+  status: '7 topics · 186 in this forum',
+};
+
+const WIDTH = 118;
+const HEIGHT = 30;
+
+export const frames = [
+  {
+    name: 'tsbb',
+    width: WIDTH,
+    height: HEIGHT,
+    draw: ({ ui, height }: { ui: Parameters<typeof renderApp>[0]; height: number }) => {
+      renderApp(ui, STATE, WIDTH, height);
+    },
+  },
+];
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 1508e6b..24333c0 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -35,6 +35,6 @@
       "@tsbb/plugin-host": ["packages/plugin-host/src/index.ts"]
     }
   },
-  "include": ["packages/**/*.ts", "apps/**/*.ts", "plugins/**/*.ts", "test/**/*.ts"],
+  "include": ["packages/**/*.ts", "apps/**/*.ts", "plugins/**/*.ts", "test/**/*.ts", "scripts/**/*.ts"],
   "exclude": ["node_modules", "**/node_modules", "**/dist"]
 }