What's your number one reason for building in public?

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For me, it's being able to document the journey. Not to mention the feedback you get from the community.

Aaron O'Leary · Accepted Answer

For me it's hype if you do it right, people like following along on the journey and that can benefit you a lot on launch day. I suppose it's a similar thought process to some of the well thought out kickstarter projects

Rahul Asthana · Answer

Can't just name one but there are multiples r:asons:

- Accountability 
- Support from like minds
- Marketing

MD Amirul Islam · Answer

@aaronoleary Yeah, Best way

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For me, it’s the feedback loop. So I can learn quickly and cheaply what is resonating with my audience/community/early adopters and fine tune my offerings accordingly.

Vincent Ogloblinsky · Answer

Test product market fit as soon as possible, with « real » users

Adetokunbo Abiola · Answer

To build a community. To get feedbacks from the community. To grow with the community. I suppose if you build in public you will end up having a great community

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@rahulasthana Definitely accountability, it helps keep you responsible when you have an audience excited for the product as much as you are.

Sharath Kuruganty · Answer

For me, it's the best way to: 
- create serendipity for yourself
- improve your product and yourself
- narrate your story

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For me, building in public is transparency, like an open startup, if you believe in yourself/product, you don't have to hide any kinda information or be afraid of criticisms, bad comments, etc...

Uma Venugopal · Answer

for me, it's making your customers/users emotional investors. If they understand why you're building it and how it can shape their future, they will actually be a great source of support & early feedback.

Rich Watson · Answer

build hype, gain early users & potential customers, feedback & suggestions.

Jonathan Prime · Answer

To capture the attention

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@aaronoleary Makes sense. I've launched two successful kickstarters in the past but never really drew that connection since those were physical products as opposed to what I'm doing now (digital products). But the parallels are there. Build hype and launch with a bang.

Manoj Ranaweera · Answer

I have been building in public probably since 2008. I used the wisdom of the crowd to find solutions to problems I had, e.g. learning how to setup AWS instances in 2011 during a 4 day outage of AWS. But these days, I have a large team thanks to free talent from https://skilledup.life. So I don't need the wisdom of the crowd as I needed then, but I just like sharing out current status - a force of habit I suppose.

What's your number one reason for building in public?

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