I was afraid and I learned better

So this is me after 4 years being a member of Indie Hackers. I've gone dormant for a while (on this site!). Was (and still) working a normal software engineering job*.

I was someone who was very careful, very worried, very hesitant about what to post and what to say. Everything needed to be professional and polished and aligned to a "master plan".

And because I was too careful and wanted things to be in control and perfect, I built my product, built it even beyond an MVP and I added more features, but then barely ever talked about it to anyone.

Now that I think about it, I think it's astonishing. It's a crazy thing to do: to build and hide.

I was afraid, let myself stand in my own way, but I learned better, so here is my advice: BE AFRAID. Be afraid to make those unnecessary mistakes that you barely learn from and to be afraid to take action just because you are worried about something.

I'm not saying that careful adequate planning is not very important to business, it is actually important. But don't want to be ready with a perfect plan before you start and don't start and build something and then wait for a master business plan. No one will interact with you business if it's hidden and surely you won't learn anything except the technical knowledge and gain nothing except the coding experience..

Build and push it out there. I'm going to keep this short, because it's more of a discussion about what not to do and behavior that impales an entrepreneur.

If I haven't changed, I wouldn't have posted this. But still, there is so much for me to get over and much to learn on how to run a business and how to behave as a business person.

*in addition to some side non-commercial software project