An under-appreciated advantage of building in public

Hiring becomes a tad bit simpler when you are sharing your journey publicly. Being a lean and early-stage startup, we want to work with people with the same intent. And it isn’t easy to find someone with the right competencies and intent. We recently put up a post to hire a product designer on a contract basis. This is to improve the builder and end-user experience at NotionApps (https://www.producthunt.com/products/notionapps). I was pleasantly surprised to see experienced designers reaching out to me and wanting to contribute to our journey. They understood our resource constraints and were very accommodating. When I asked them why they were going out of their way to take this up, three reasons came up in the conversations. 👉 A unifying interest: Their love for Notion while using it at work and for personal productivity 👉 A conviction about the problem: They understand the gaps in Notion and the need for an app builder 👉 A belief in our solution and the team: They appreciate the progress we’ve made so far and trust the roadmap All of which was easy to communicate because they were already following our journey.