Ask HN: Finally ready to share my personal work, how to manage expectations? 14 by samh748 | 11 comments on Hacker News. After several fruitful exchanges here on HN, I think I'm finally ready to start putting some of my personal work out there into the real-world! My original "plan" (ie grand scheme) was to have everything figured out and perfected and then publish it all at once, fireworks and all. Needless to say I no longer think that's a good idea... So with a slow start, I don't expect there to be any audience for probably quite some time, and I'm okay with that (it'll give me time to play around anyway). But then, what else does one do besides regularly posting content? Where does one get quality, honest feedback? With so little feedback, how does one know if the content's any good? And if one upholds to high standards (which I do), how can one present their work to reputable individuals without getting "sympathy" feedback? All of wh...