chillycurve

I agree with everything you've said.

It is a matter of choosing what to disclose. I think most people in free countries can disclose a lot, if not most about themselves while withholding things like their sexuality or medical/mental challenges without withholding everything.

And reddit is a special case, even I am tempted to open that up.

I have been afraid of sharing my ideas, post history, etc. in a way that could be easily traced back to my identity for years. I made sure my accounts and usernames bore no personally identifiable tid-bits. I use a VPN religiously (that won't change).

I've since decided that I am done with all that.

I was afraid my employer might question my Reddit posting history (they wouldn't.) I was worried someone who Googled me would think my past self was dumb (who cares).

Now my ideas are almost all public and growing more so by the day. I am working up the energy to start a personal blog, if anything just to document my ideas over time. I am adding my real name and email to my Github, HN, (not Reddit, yet, though it would not be hard to connect), IH, etc.

I want someone to be able to Google me and find my best work.

On the other hand, there are clearly cases and types of info/accounts that should remain private. I self-host as much as possible. I encrypt personal files before uploading. I have multiple Protonmail accounts. I use custom DNS, etc.

Ideas should be public. Information is a case by case basis, but I generally care a lot less than I used to.

Sent you an email about a project that might interest you.

Sent you an email! Looking forward to talking.

Hi Alejo,

I commented about my current project above that is in need of some Go expertise. I am currently working to get into the summer YC class, so if that interests you, feel free to use the email in my profile!

Hi!

I just commented with a project I am working on. I need a co-founder who meets your qualification exactly!

Check out my comment and feel free to reach to me via the email on my profile if you are interested.

Currently developing a distributed transcoder-as-a-service to compete with the likes of AWS's Elastic Transcoder and Google's Transcoder API. By my math, I can transcode the same file in half the time and at 1/20 or so of the cost of those guys.

Hoping to get into this summer's YC and looking for one or two co-founders.

I am mostly a business/marketing guy who can hold his own in devops/backend, but no where near professional.

Looking for at least a backend co-founder who knows GO (ideally K8s, containers, and CI/CD, as well).

A talented frontend co-founder would always make things a lot easier, as well.

I am currently working on this ~10 hours a day in preparation for the Summer YC class. If anybody is looking for a project with some potential, hit me up!