5 things I learned from building and releasing Hounty

First of all, I can't believe Hounty is actually out! It's been so long since I started a small project that turned out to be a year long crusade and I can't be more proud of crossing this threshold. TL;DR You can download Hounty on App Store for free, the app is written in Flutter and the backend is in Serverless Go + Serverless PostgreSQL. Looking back I can't say I would do many things differently - the lessons I learned had to be learned, but I sure wish I knew a few things sooner. 1. Build in Public While the idea is great and helps build trust and relationship it really only works if: You are building a tool aimed at developers You have something for them to try Same goes for building a community on social networks before the app is ready. When I submitted the new shiny Freemium version for release I made the previous version free and shared a video "Coming soon" with the app preview on TikTok: Five hundreds downloads are amazing! Except these users must've been so frustrated whe