Comment by theshrike79

I've "built in the open" before that was a thing.

Just the fact that my Github repos are 99% public forces me to be diligent in what I commit (no secrets, nothing private)

I have like one project with over 10 stars and a bunch of forks, but that's about it. I build stuff for me, not for others. If someone can look at my crap and get inspiration, it's cool but not essential to my happiness.

Some people on the other hand LOVE the "community" bit of it, every single brain fart of them has a fancy landing page, 15 posts about it on different subreddits and substacks and it's basically a yt-dlp wrapper or something. That's not for me.