[Swizec]

It depends on what you launch and where you get exposure.

Obviously whatever you launch is going to have to get exposure with the people you are interested in getting interviews/offers from.

But most of my Random Offers (tm) have included some variation of "So I've been reading your blog" or "So I liked that cool thing X you had on HN frontpage last week"

To the point that one such Thing X was mentioned by half the people I interviewed with that time I was going through onsite interviews at Google.

[mikle]

That is indeed some of my point - exposure is what you really need, not launching. I can launch stuff all day and never get on the front page of anything. I think it's important to be accurate about the real causes and in this case it is not "launching" but marketing and exposure (which are important skills to have).