Dead-end 01
Hoard implementation details, then pay the same cost alone: slower shipping, thinner feedback, weaker distribution.
iteration / maze-lab
Back to previous iteration
Closed code is a maze with no exit for indie builders.
From your own playbook: direction over diffusion, signal over noise. Proprietary posture feels like control, but under AI acceleration it becomes a loop. You keep rewriting what others already solved, while bigger teams compound.
Dead-end 02
Treat code as private status. The signal decays. The work cannot circulate, remix, or train a stronger indie graph.
Exit A
Micro-ship in public: release one useful primitive, one clear constraint, one reusable pattern.
Exit B
Keep authorship, open methods. Free-press lineage survived where publishers kept control and knowledge stayed portable.
Open knowledge is not giving away leverage. It is choosing compounding over isolation.