... honest experience is: PH gives you the venue, but the traffic has to come from somewhere, and "somewhere" is the audience you built (or didnt) in the months before. that said, i dont think "before the product" vs "after" is the real question. the failure mode isnt timing, its silence. i validated the idea privately (i was my own first user, scratching my own itch), which answered "is this worth building" but it answered nothing about "will strangers care ... ... will be using it :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @byalexai  I see the value in starting early (validation, inspiration for others, spreading the word). The thing is that I am more of a doer than a yapper

... would hold their attention for twenty minutes instead of forty seconds. That is the entire premise. Not where you've worked. What you've built. The Real Answer Is Not Either/Or In 2026, the strongest combination is not resume versus profile. It is resume plus profile. One gets you noticed in the first seven seconds of a scan. The other gets you remembered for the twenty minutes after that, and it is the twenty minutes that actually decide whether ... ... website of his portfolio that looked like Teletext. Resum = talk Output = your skills in the process/execution Talk is cheap; everyone can talk, but only a few people can take action. Who do you want to have in your team? Yappers