That sounds absolutely terrifying to me. I can barely make a social media post without feeling like a complete moron, let alone putting myself out there creatively. 

I agree that it's probably a fantastic way to grow, but good God, you better have big balls to do it. 

Aardvark

IMHO If you want to grow fast creatively and can afford to give your work away, you should. Skills/intuition/experience are better than money to me, even bitcoin (that could be my sunk cost speaking). Artists get taken advantage of all the time doing this though, so it’s probably just easy for me to say given my “art” pays relatively well.

k00b

builders

why build in public?

This is excellent. This may apply to all creative projects online.  I feel like writers go through this by putting their stuff behind a paywall that, in the vast majority of cases, no one will ever read. 