# How Fly in Public 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.

## 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

- Grounded: you have not posted your first proof yet.
- Flying: you are sharing consistently.
- Danger: altitude is getting low.
- Missed: a workday went by without a proof.
- Recovered: you shared after a miss.

## 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.

## Three ways to post

- Web app: open your flight page and add a proof.
- Telegram: send `/start` to [@flyinpublic_bot](https://t.me/flyinpublic_bot), confirm the web link, then use `/proof <url>` in chat.
- API, scripts, AI assistants: see the developer docs.

## 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.

## Read next

- [Overview](https://flyinpublic.com/docs)
- [Why it exists](https://flyinpublic.com/docs/why)
- [Telegram bot](https://flyinpublic.com/docs/telegram)
- [For developers](https://flyinpublic.com/docs/developers)