Why I Decided to Build in Public

Greg Dickens
6 min readMar 17, 2021
Photo by davide ragusa on Unsplash

I have to admit I’ve been on the sidelines about this for sometime. I’ve watched makers and organizations that I really admire put their financial data out there for everyone to see or live-stream their way to building a product.

To me a lot of things feel right about this ultra-transparent way of working, but it’s really hard to know how to put it into action for yourself. After all, these are big…

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Greg Dickens

Maker, recovering banker, living in Greece. Building affordable digital tools for local news and other indie publishers at https://www.epilocal.com