--- title: Work with the garage door up | daily.dev description: A reflection on the value of 'working with the garage door up' — sharing your creative process openly rather than only announcing finished work. Drawing on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/work-with-the-garage-door-up-gknimmjcc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Work with the garage door up | daily.dev og:description: A reflection on the value of 'working with the garage door up' — sharing your creative process openly rather than only announcing finished work. Drawing on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/work-with-the-garage-door-up-gknimmjcc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GKnImMJcC.png og:image:alt: Work with the garage door up og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Work with the garage door up **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A reflection on the value of 'working with the garage door up' — sharing your creative process openly rather than only announcing finished work. Drawing on Robin Sloan's writing, the idea is that showing your work in progress (via streaming, blogging, social media) builds more genuine, invested audiences than polished announcements. It also avoids the corrupting effect of pitching and signals authentic presence over performative output. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Working with the Garage Door Up, Without a Door](https://daily.dev/posts/working-with-the-garage-door-up-without-a-door-knkwmqxs3) · HelixML · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#content-creation](https://daily.dev/tags/content-creation), [#personal-branding](https://daily.dev/tags/personal-branding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/work-with-the-garage-door-up-gknimmjcc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Work with the garage door up","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/work-with-the-garage-door-up-gknimmjcc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/work-with-the-garage-door-up-gknimmjcc"},"datePublished":"2026-04-24T22:58:52.024Z","dateModified":"2026-04-24T22:59:11.436Z","description":"A reflection on the value of 'working with the garage door up' — sharing your creative process openly rather than only announcing finished work. Drawing on...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/work-with-the-garage-door-up-gknimmjcc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"community,content-creation,personal-branding","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Work with the garage door up"}]} ```