Build in public is dead: as ideas gain value, indie devs turn to secrecy
KrishRShah · x · 2026-09-14
The author nostalgic about early build-in-public days: back then there weren't enough man-hours to build everything, so everyone openly shared their "sauce".
Now that the idea itself holds much more value, the indie dev community has shifted toward secrecy and vagueposting.
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