Publishing your work increases your luck

(github.com)

73 points | by magoghm 6 hours ago

5 comments

  • volkercraig 2 hours ago
    I publish into an open sea and hear nothing in reply. The constant reassurance from every platform that i use that i am merely "one more post" away from all my wildest dreams has to be true eventually, right?
    • ItsYan 50 minutes ago
      I am going through interviews with founders on https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ and it is indeed what happens.

      It is not straightforward, however. One guy did only product-led marketing and it took him 3 years for his SaaS to make good numbers. And he's probably an outlier, since he's featured on the show.

      And then you have another guy, who blogged for 5 years about Ruby and only after those 5 years using the audience from that, he built an OSS project with monetisation on top of that. But he could do that because he talked to his audience about ideas.

      Listening to those interviews, I get the impression that if you know what you're doing, you can make a profitable SaaS in 2 or 3 years. But to get to a state, where you know what you're doing, you need at least another 3 years or more of actually putting in the reps in an honest way.

      And I think that's where the "increase your luck" comes in. I think it's kind of shallow non-sense in the vein of motivational speaking but lots of people like this kind of content and like to be aspirational. Lots of the books sold by internet hustlers, like Rob Walling or Aaron Francis, don't get read, only bought.

    • grim_io 1 hour ago
      But did you record a complementary TikTok dance, though?
    • llmslave2 1 hour ago
      The best is when a random throwaway post blows up for some unexpected and unknown reason and everything you think is good is met with silence!
    • bulletsvshumans 2 hours ago
      Hello fellow human!
    • fragmede 2 hours ago
      You may want to be more goal oriented. If you're just publishing into a void and hoping for things to happen, I mean I'm not an influencer, but the successful ones I do know have specific goals that they're driving towards are not screaming into the void and hoping for the best.

      Not looking for you to answer these questions for me here, but ask yourself, what are those dreams specifically? What are the concrete steps you've taken to get there, and how are you going to accomplish them? How long is it going to take you? What are success criteria? What are the risks? What are the failure modes?

  • blibble 3 hours ago
    translated from marketing-droid-ese:

    > greetings peasants! er, sorry, valued open source contributors!

    > remember, without you feeding us training data, we won't be able to train our AI to replace you at your dayjob!

    > now, get back to work

    • mawadev 29 minutes ago
      99% of open source authors quit right before they go viral!! Would you please upload your training data ... I mean lovely open source code??
    • glouwbug 3 hours ago
      I’m sure they probably train on private repos too
      • dawnerd 47 minutes ago
        There's a reason there's a toggle to prevent matching on public code.
  • ronbenton 2 hours ago
    I used to release some writing and publish code publicly but the mean comments got to me.
  • beej71 3 hours ago
    This has definitely worked for me. Never got rich from putting stuff out there, but got a number of good jobs from it.
    • concernedctzn 9 minutes ago
      oh wow, thanks again for the networking guide Beej!
    • magoghm 2 hours ago
      Same here