... honest experience is: PH gives you the venue, but the traffic has to come from somewhere, and "somewhere" is the audience you built (or didnt) in the months before. that said, i dont think "before the product" vs "after" is the real question. the failure mode isnt timing, its silence. i validated the idea privately (i was my own first user, scratching my own itch), which answered "is this worth building" but it answered nothing about "will strangers care ... ... every product creator asks themselves. For me, I jumped in on day one after launching and never looked back. You have to believe in yourself before expecting others to believe in you. Comment from Arnold Oshenye(@oshylabs): The doer versus

... would hold their attention for twenty minutes instead of forty seconds. That is the entire premise. Not where you've worked. What you've built. The Real Answer Is Not Either/Or In 2026, the strongest combination is not resume versus profile. It is resume plus profile. One gets you noticed in the first seven seconds of a scan. The other gets you remembered for the twenty minutes after that, and it is the twenty minutes that actually decide whether ... ... nico_trefasim): @sophie_myers  I'd rather see steady progress than one lucky success. Comment from Nico Trefasim(@nico_trefasim): @whykislay Should people include failed projects in their profiles? Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): The "20 minutes vs