Make your process visible

  • Khader argues that getting people to care about your work and consider hiring you is a central challenge when AI makes creating coding projects easier. Share projects on LinkedIn and Twitter and invite feedback. 4:03
  • Share how you build as well as what you finish. In the example, people could observe the developer's skills and decisions, while feedback revealed what potential users wanted. 3:05

Mark Lou and ShipFast, as reported by Khader

  1. After years of failed tech startups, Lou took a minimum-wage job to support his family. 2:40 3:05
  2. He joined a developer community and began sharing his building process online. Even failed projects generated feedback and reasons to follow his progress. 3:05
  3. By August 2023, he had about 35,000 followers who knew his story and had seen him build consistently. 3:34
  4. ShipFast launched to that existing audience and reportedly earned $6,000 in its first two days, $40,000 in its first month, and later more than $1 million in total revenue. 3:34

Apply the lesson

  • Publish class projects too. Khader reports that a friend received recruiter messages offering an interview by his third machine-learning post. This is an anecdote about visibility, not a guaranteed posting threshold. 4:28
  • The proposed mechanism is repeated public evidence of skill leading to feedback, familiarity, and trust before a sale or hiring conversation. 3:05 3:34