[CoffeePython]

A handful:

1. Stumbling upon a r/diy post on reddit of some dude building a kegerator with a raspberry pi. I thought it was cool, impulse bought a raspberry pi, and fell in love with programming. I was working at a gas station as a maintenance tech before. Ended up switching careers into software engineering and greatly increasing my life satisfaction, income, etc

2. Joining twitter. I joined in late 2020, and started sharing about side projects I was building. This led to earning my first $ online, launching a startup, raising money from investors, and getting into Y Combinator. Before sharing online what I was building I was making virtually 0 traction on various different SaaS projects i was building. It really changed my life and career in a tremendous way

[throwaway_4ever]

How did people found out what you were building on Twitter and start following you? 0 -> 20k in a couple years is quite the achievement.

Did building in public force you to work more diligently or was it purely about getting your product to the audience of people that would use it?

[CoffeePython]

I followed people building things on twitter and started interacting with their posts, I posted a lot about programming stuff and just did the whole build in public thing.

I think building in public was great for motivating more progress