Sharing your progress openly brings attention, feedback and sometimes customers. It also has costs that are discussed less.
Reply with:
- What you share: revenue, user numbers, failures, code, roadmap
- What you keep private, and why
- What it has brought you: customers, partners, job offers, copycats
- Whether your audience are buyers or other founders
Benefits people report
- A reason to ship every week
- Early feedback
- An audience in place when you launch
- Trust, because people watched the work happen
Costs people report
- An audience of other builders who will never buy
- Competitors reading your numbers and your plans
- Time spent posting about the work when you could be doing it
- Pressure to show progress every week
- Customers seeing revenue figures and questioning the price
One way to decide: share what your customers would find useful or reassuring, and think twice about anything shared mainly to impress other founders. Where do you draw your own line?