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Daniel Farrell

Does anyone else find that telling people about your projects makes you not build them?

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I have recently been realizing that keeping a project under the wraps for a while makes it more likely that I'll finish a project rather vs when I tell my friends about a project in the early stages. Anyone else notice this? Or is there value to telling other people before you build something? I wrote some more thoughts down here and am curious to hear what you guys think: https://danielfarrell.substack.c...
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Michael Scheiwiller
Not directly, no. But it definitely takes a looooooot of time... Btw. We are LAUUUUUUNCHING TOMORROW :D
Daniel Farrell
@milappert launch daaaayyyy haha nice!! Yeah the time component is important too. Like if it is really worth building it should take some time. I've been surprised though how often even some of the ideas that I've thought were pretty solid have fallen by the wayside because I've talked about them too much before building anything. How long did you work on your product for before launch?
Michael Scheiwiller
@d_r_farrell honestly? I made it a weekend project to validate for a bigger project. So it is a MVP at the moment. I wanted to include more feature in the beginning. But then decided (a bit shorthanded) that i get first some feedback and impressions. I think this was a good decision! It will be built in public all the way now! :D How about you?
Ekrem Çetinkaya
I feel you. Whenever I told people about what I planned to do, I never managed to do it :). Now, my biggest inner-challenge is to NOT talk about my projects until they reach to a certain point.
Daniel Farrell
@ekrcet I'm exactly the same haha I have now shifted my strategy to not talking about my most recent project and am ALMOST 80% finished with it! Hahahaha A component that may have helped is that I started learning bubble and I feel like I started to get pretty good at it so when you feel like you can build your idea quickly rather than having to wait or hack it together in some janky MVP way you may be able to get there faster. Do you have a project you're working on right now that you haven't told many people about?
Jaiten
You should always validate your idea first with real data and real potential customers within a niche. Validating with friends and family will give you false hope and they won't truly understand if the product is solving the problem that is in a niche if they are not in it.
Lydia Wang
I'll tell my friends about my project, and they often provide tons of helpful feedback, even offering material support at times.
James Hallahan
When you tell friends or family, you leave yourself open to taking on feedback in a negative way and distracting you from your goal or desired outcome. It is hard to find a balance between sharing your excitement but making sure you stay focused on the task.
Arun Kumar Kankipati
Trust me I've always dwelled in a subconscious achievement of the Idea being implemented, while actually I was talking it over with few people around. It's better to start implementing rather than talking about.
Aurélien Houdbert
I guess it depends. When you share your projects with others, often they become 'impressed' and applaud you for something you haven't actually accomplished yet. Consequently, you receive the anticipated rewards and recognition without even having to deliver anything. However, presenting your ideas to others can also assist you in verifying their value. It may lead to discovering a suitable market fit, which in turn provides a boost of motivation. I guess we should all talk about our projects at some point, but just in time to get that extra motivational push needed to complete what you started :)
Mei
It depends. Oversharing can be a buzzkill even for you. But sharing the right amount can get you the support and encouragement you need to keep going.
bero tmim
That's right, in Islam the Prophet Muhammad says (finish your deeds in silence) and I remember once on Twitter I shared ten thousand followers, a post showing the number of interested people from HR in multiple companies, and their number was six, and I said "Maybe there is good news on the way. On the second day I disappear All six people, I was amazed, and once again I shared an email with people from Dubai, for a large organization that wanted me to come to give a lecture on educational technologies, after which I lost contact with the organization and did not respond to my calls and emails :(
Luke Emery
mine is actually the opposite once I let people know about something I am building I feel a responsibility to see it through. once I talk about it it becomes real
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