Building In Public

“The hardest person to show up for is yourself” I'll be honest. I tend to wait for pressure to kick in before I move. Not because I'm lazy but because urgency sometimes feels like the only thing strong enough to push m…

Nobody is good at the start.....And nobody is bad after 1000 attempts And yet most people quit somewhere in between. I almost did. Not because coding was hard. Not because I wasn't interested. But because I kept look…

I’m “building in public” You’re not though are you… You’re doing this: 1. Announcing awards 2. Showing new hires every month 3. Posting100x amazing testimonials 4. Sharing off the chart revenue figures 5. Either alway…

The boring 80% is usually what separates a demo from something people actually trust and use. First time seeing my posts? I'm Zainab Musa, a frontend and mobile developer building in public and figuring things out one s…

If you're a developer and nobody knows you exist, that's a problem. Because no matter how skilled you are, opportunities can only find work they've seen. I've seen incredibly talented developers struggle to get hired n…

If you build in public, you share the losses too. So here's ours: Y Combinator rejected us. Of course we wanted it. But this is part of building a company. Not every update is a growth chart, a new client, or a milesto…

I once spent two hours building something, only to delete all of it… The code wasn't wrong. I was solving the wrong problem. Usually around 1am. Usually after convincing myself that starting fast was the same as starti…

Building in Public | Innovation Award! At VONQ, I get to build cool sh-t, with cool people. Fun to be glazed, but it's also just fun building new things. Weirdly good night out, thanks "Louises" (not sure about corr…

Building in Public | Awards Season VONQ up for innovation award. If there’s no follow up to this post then it’s great to be nominated! With good friend, amazing product guy, and longtime colleague Princepreet Singh …

Building in public is a terrible content strategy. For most founders, anyway. The average "building in public" post is a milestone update dressed up as vulnerability. “We hit 100 customers.” “Lessons from our worst…