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thank you , yeah I think im overthinking this

It’s a well studied psychological phenomena too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_effect

Echoing what others have said: just post your stuff. If you're not intentionally publicizing yourself or your work, I can nearly guarantee that no one will ever even look at your work. I've been putting up my little personal projects up on my GitHub for over ten years, and yet no one's ever come around to look at them except when I intentionally posted links to those projects on places like HN.

No one's going to look unless you ask them to look. If you already have a big audience (over 100+ people daily using things you've built) no one is going to "get curious" about your projects. So just post them so folks can see them.

Even if you ask people to look they won’t look. You really gotta sell yourself and have an influencer mindset to motivate someone to go look at code you’ve published.

This is it should be. It takes time and effort to try someone’s idea.

Regarding the fear someone does take it and claim it as their own. Who cares? You’re in no worse of a position than the code being private and then not doing it. It’s not relevant.

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