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Building in public

Does anyone have a recommendation for a service that helps to build in public?

on December 6, 2020
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    Building in public is about be open about your journey, you can do that via any publishing medium: Twitter, blogging, vlogging, Twitching, here on Indie Hackers, etc.

    You can also hook your revenue data into your product here on IH or on something like Baremetrics.

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    Twitter.

    You don't need a fancy setup. Just start posting about what you are working on, and sharing your progress.

    I would equate it with devs who spend weeks perfecting a static file, dynamically hosted, github integrated blog and then post twice.

    Just start talking to people about what you are working on.

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    Hey Shaan, great question, could you expand upon it more. When you say service I take that not a guide but something you would pay money for to help you.

    I'd be curious to know more of what do you mean by service?

    thanks!

    P.S. I currently am building in the open so I hope to be able to point you in the right direction.

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      Hi Michael,
      One of the things I struggle w/ side projects is finishing them. I tend to move onto the next shiny new project when things get boring or hard. This whole idea of building in public is a great way to protect against that urge to give up. I was thinking of a service that can enforce accountability for folks building in public e.g.

      1. Reminders & digital rewards
      2. Leaderboards
      3. Retrospective etc

      Thoughts?

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        I'd be interested to see if there was some type of github style personal leaderboard that allowed you to visually show continual days or amount of time contributed towards creating a side project.

        Or maybe some type of clock countdown to remind you have only so many days until you must ship your project by a set date.

        I think you should see about creating different mock ups, or if you can create MVP versions, test out and get some feedback! Would be fun experiments to see.