Indie hacker Gefei55: if Build In Public is your only play, you deserve to earn nothing
gefei55 · x · 2026-10-21
Indie developer Gefei55 (66K followers) argues that relying solely on Build In Public is a recipe for not making money — and that products ending up merely open-sourced after painstaking development signal a failure of distribution and monetization strategy, not a lack of effort.
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