... most inspiring startup journeys of the last few years happened in plain sight. @levelsio built Nomad List and Remote OK live on Twitter sharing revenue numbers, failures, and pivots in real time . @marclou does the same, shipping products publicly and turning his audience into his distribution . Both have built massive followings and real businesses partly because of how openly they build. The case for build in public

... Last week something unexpected happened. We publicly challenged Grok xAI's AI to a benchmark competition on Twitter. And Grok accepted. The rules were simple: Same public

... product, but then comes the question of paid features, or a trial limited by time or usage. How do you decide which parts of your product or service remain free, and which become paid? When I share content publicly, I usually provide generalised advice. But when it comes to a specific case or a tailored strategy that requires a personal approach, that s where it becomes paid. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @rajkumar_001  The trend ... ... something but don't have time to use it within the first 3 days. When I circle back to try it 10 days later (when I really have time), the trial has already expired. Maybe A/B testing day-based trials versus

... thing we wanted to be very clear about with Supaguard.pro : We don t ask for service tokens, API keys, or credentials. Ever. Supaguard only looks at what s already public on the internet . If an endpoint, config, or anon key is accessible without logging in, Supaguard can see it. If it needs authentication or a private token, Supaguard simply ignores it. Why we designed it this way Most real-world breaches don t start with stolen credentials. They start with ... ... Publicly

... where professionals can find the right guidance and mentees can connect with experienced mentors in their field. THE TWIST: I'm building this entire thing with zero coding background, using Cursor IDE + Claude AI, and documenting every single day publicly. WHERE WE'RE AT (Day 3): - Backend: 100% complete (auth, payments, messaging, reviews) - Frontend: 70-100% depending on feature - Dashboards: Fully functional - One blocker: Database setup (2 hours away) - Launch: ~20 hours of focused work WHY THIS MATTERS: Not trying ... ... even live). But the meta-story is wild - AI just changed what's possible for non-technical founders. The barrier between "I have an idea" and "I shipped a product" collapsed. FOLLOWING ALONG: Building in public

... leads daily while I sleep Tools: Using ElevenLabs + GPT + VoIP Niche: Starting with insurance agents in the US who need warm leads Progress: Built demo agents, made landing page, tweeting the journey My goal is to document this publicly wins, failures, experiments and reach $1K/month in MRR by automating cold outreach. If anyone's tried something similar, I d love to learn from your mistakes. Also open to collab, advice, feedback even roasting Let s build ...

... been building Idea TBD in public - a weekly drop where we share raw product ideas, highlight early-stage tools, and experiment with building a community around curiosity and creativity. It s scrappy. It s messy. It s ours. Here s what we ve learned so far Substack Traction We started on Substack, but it never quite clicked. Felt like shouting into the void. We deleted our account and focused on what was working: Product Hunt Real reach, real feedback ... ... builders and help people along the way. From a financial perspective, we don t plan on monetizing anytime soon but hopefully, when we re ready to launch our own products, we ll already have a space to do it publicly

... establish a feedback loop and use to evolve the product. We have live chat on both landing page and dashboard. This was phenomenal. I talk to 5-10 users everyday on live chat. We have also set up a public trello board with our entire product roadmap so that users can participate in the co-creation. Before building a feature, we discuss it thoroughly in our Facebook group and understand the sentiment before even writing a single line of code ... ... been building the startup openly since day 1 and during the last 6 months we have experimented with price increment, upsell offers and few other methods. Some worked, some didn't, here are my favorites. Building in public