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title: "Build in Public Strategy"
url: https://memory.wiki/ycd161gU
updated: 2026-05-05T02:21:31.089Z
hub: https://memory.wiki/hub/yc-demo
concept_count: 12
source: "memory.wiki"
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# Build in Public Strategy

## What to share
- Weekly progress, with screenshots
- Specific architecture decisions and the trade-offs
- Bugs that took >2 hours, especially the surprising ones
- Pricing experiments and results

## What to NOT share
- Customer names without permission
- Revenue specifics until ARR > $20K
- Half-baked features ("coming soon" decays trust)

## Channels (priority order)
1. Twitter / X — main funnel
2. HN — Show HN at v6 launch
3. Manifesto post — long-form for the standard-setting narrative
4. Founder's Discord — small ops community

## Cadence
- 2 short tweets/week minimum
- 1 long-form post/month
- Show HN once at launch, then quarterly


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## Concepts in this document
- **mdfy** _(entity)_
  Alternative approach emphasizing author-owned memory and cross-platform sharing via URLs.
- **Mem0** _(entity)_
  AI memory platform using flat vector-based storage with top-K retrieval for memory recall per turn.
- **Knowledge management** _(tag)_
  Domain focus for organizing and accessing personal information in the context of AI workflows.
- **Letta** _(entity)_
  AI memory system inheriting MemGPT's hierarchical context-window architecture with core and archival memory tiers.
- **Claude** _(entity)_
  Mentioned as alternative AI platform that cannot access ChatGPT memories.
- **ChatGPT** _(entity)_
  Example AI system that can consume mdfy hubs via URL paste.
- **URL Architecture** _(concept)_
  Unified primitive design across document, bundle, and hub scopes that enables direct AI integration.
- **User-authored memory** _(concept)_
  The proposed alternative model where users control memory content rather than relying on extraction models.
- **Build in Public** _(concept)_
  Core transparency-driven strategy for sharing development progress and decisions with an audience to build trust and community.
- **AI Tools** _(concept)_
  Built-in AI capabilities including Polish, Summary, TL;DR, Translate, and Chat for content enhancement and processing.
- **AI pair programming** _(concept)_
  The core practice of working alongside AI for code generation and decision-making, with specific patterns of what works and what doesn't.
- **Y Combinator** _(entity)_
  The startup accelerator for which the creator was preparing while building mdfy.

## Concept relations (within this doc's concepts)
- **Mem0** similar to **Letta**
- **User-authored memory** implemented via **URL Architecture**
- **mdfy** product category **Knowledge management**
- **Mem0** architectural alternative **Letta**
- **mdfy** addresses **Knowledge management**
- **mdfy** implements **URL Architecture**
- **User-authored memory** core principle of **mdfy**

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