Why I'm building in public

I’ve been shipping software professionally for 7+ years. Backend systems, mobile apps, full-stack products. But almost everything I’ve built lives behind company walls, invisible to anyone outside the team.

That changes now.

The shift

Building in public isn’t about marketing. It’s about accountability. When you document what you’re building, you think harder about why you’re building it. Every ship gets a reason. Every decision gets examined.

What stdout is

stdout is the system I built to make this sustainable. Instead of maintaining a blog manually (which I’d abandon in two weeks), I built a simple pipeline: edit a file, build, deploy. No CMS, no friction, no “I’ll update the portfolio later.”

The rules

• Ship something every week
• Document what I learn, not just what I build
• Be honest about failures — they teach more than wins
• Keep the stack simple enough that I actually maintain it