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Build In Public is a psyop perpetuated by leeches

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idk, in my experience, it has been 100% net positive for getting to the next step and, more importantly, getting out of my own way / head but i think there is a point that it makes it easier for someone to launch before you if they're trying to capture the same mindshare still, risk is way < reward

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It depends on what you’re building, really. If you’re trying to do something for fun, to learn, lifestyle business, cultivating a personal brand etc — it may be the better way to go. For super serious $$$$$$ businesses I would always say don’t do it.

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yeah i agree w that wouldn't advocate ppl working on confidential matters to *build in public* their trade secrets, or services businesses to broadcast their most valuable client lists for social + gaming software it's a no brainer bc that feeling of community is super powerful even pre-launch

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Seeing how badly people have behaved with Kasra’s games have blackpilled me on a lot of this. Maybe Farcaster specific but I feel like half those people are playing cause they are looking for exploits.

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woah, just hearing about this now what happened?

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It’s continued too. I am on one hand super encouraging and helping find workarounds, but also this is just what the general community is like if you don’t put in safeguards https://warpcast.com/jc4p/0xa0ecadd1

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Didn't they update saying it was a vercel issue? Did it end up being a hack? https://warpcast.com/jc4p/0xaeaddb97

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For that one! But Zeni that’s not the only one 😂 I wish it wasn’t so

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Glad that one wasn't but I totally believe you. Personally, I had a ton of success "building in public" here on Farcaster (one user even sniped the .xyz domain for my vercel project and sent it to me), but I do it judiciously. Closed-source but lots of sharing, casting, etc. When Moxie first launched and I was building on it, I was writing thread after thread of my dev work. Strategically, this was good for 1) keeping me accountable, 2) getting early users + community involvement, and 3) disincentivizing competitors because if they wanted to compete they'd have to keep up with my pace and enthusiasm. The web app I developed during this time is still the largest community project, but I took a different approach to frames than most. After I saw that Moxie frames were going to get commoditized, I wrote a generic one with an ugly UI and open-sourced it, which was just my way of waving the white flag and helping out newbie devs. Thankfully no exploits (that I'm aware of).

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