How it works

Fly in Public is built around one tiny loop: share something in public, your bird climbs. Skip a workday, your bird drops. Here is everything that loop touches.

Your flight

When you sign up and pick a handle, you get a public flight page at https://flyinpublic.com/your-handle. That page shows your bird, your recent proofs, and your current altitude. Anyone can visit it. That is the point.

What counts as a proof

A proof is any public link to something you made or shared. Examples:

A post on X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, Reddit, Hacker News, etc.
A YouTube clip, demo, or walkthrough.
A landing page, blog post, changelog, or release note.
A small offer, signup form, or anything someone could open and react to.

It just needs to be reachable by a URL. Quality of the proof is up to you. The bird does not judge.

Altitude, in plain English

Your bird has an altitude between zero and one hundred. It moves up when you share in public and down when you do not.

Add a proof on a workday: your bird gains altitude.
Skip a workday: your bird loses a noticeable chunk of altitude.
Skip a weekend or rest day: your bird only drifts down a little.
Below thirty altitude: the bird is in danger. Share something to climb back.
At zero: the bird crashes. You can always start a new flight by sharing again.

Workdays and rest days

Fly in Public is built around a Monday-to-Friday rhythm by default. Workdays expect a proof. Weekends do not. Miss a workday and your bird drops fast. Take the weekend off and your bird drifts gently.

Status, at a glance

Your bird is always in one of a few states:

Grounded: you have not posted your first proof yet.
Flying: you are sharing consistently. Keep going.
Danger: altitude is getting low. One small proof will pull you back up.
Missed: a workday went by without a proof. Time to share.
Recovered: you shared after a miss. The bird climbs again.

Streaks and the leaderboard

Your streak is the number of workdays in a row you have posted a proof. The leaderboard ranks active flights so you can see who else is sharing. The aim is not to win it. The aim is to keep flying.

Three ways to post

Web app: open your flight page and add a proof.
Telegram: send /start to @flyinpublic_bot, confirm the web link, then use /proof <url> in chat.
API, scripts, AI assistants: see For developers.

What people see on your page

Your current altitude and status.
The history of every proof you have posted.
Likes and comments from other people on the platform.

Visitors can leave a like or a short comment on any proof. That feedback is part of why marketing in public works: the loop is short and the reactions are real.