Cross-post from Indie Hackers:<p>No, not like that! I'm talking about that visceral feeling of getting yourself out there, of being vulnerable and outside of your comfort zone, in person or in front of a camera. Just you, the real you, and the tides of the Internet; dropping Internet cliches of pseudonyms, handles, cat GIFs and avatars. You do this to promote yourself, your product or some part of the ecosystem that you dedicate your life to.<p>For this I recently took part in a live stream (as in, a real-time broadcast, gulp) chat/interview with Darko Fabijan, co-founder of Semaphore CI (<a href="https://semaphoreci.com" rel="nofollow">https://semaphoreci.com</a>), as part of their Semaphore Uncut series where they discuss IndieHackers favourite topic(s): the problems that we face as software industry professionals, how we're solving them, and what we're working on that excites.<p>For our session, we chatted about our experiences and passions as founders, about building Enterprise-class SaaS products, about how package management (the domain of Cloudsmith, <a href="https://cloudsmith.io" rel="nofollow">https://cloudsmith.io</a>) integrates with CI/CD, and what's coming up next for both of us - You can watch it the full thing here (with a podcast to follow):<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLy0IV4Yq8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLy0IV4Yq8</a><p>It was a pleasure chatting with Darko, although it was my first experience doing a live stream. Darko was obviously a lot more practiced, calm and measured than I was; he was fantastic and I can only thank him for directing the conversation smoothly. Having watched it back I think I managed to just about get away with it externally, but internally I'm a maelstrom of nerves. Certainly my domain is at a keyboard and not as a natural orator, but we all know here that practice makes perfect.<p>Apart from one or two brain blips, it went well; I didn't articulate about package management patterns and advice in the way that I would have liked. We had a followup conversation that was much smoother, as is typical, and I'm hoping to add some of that to the podcast. As is typical for anything that's live, we also had a bit of meltdown pre-stream with the streaming software and Skype, which both decided to crash just as we started to broadcast. Maybe they'll release an "off-cuts" series of bloopers in the future.<p>Overall though, great fun and extremely worthwhile; I would definitely recommend it as a soapbox. If not for your product, then for you personally. Do it to better yourself. Do it to grow. Do it because you can do it. Although I'm well-versed with talking to customers and doing demos, these are targetted/pointed "scenarios" that play out similarly each time. This though, this pushed me to the edge of my abilities. Would I do it again? Absolutely, and I will. Watch this space.<p>So Hacker News, my actual question is:<p>What have you done recently where you exposed the real you?<p>Did it work? Tell us more, and give us a link (if you can). Be polite. :-)