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Publishing/Hosting Your Web or Desktop Software For People To See.

No matter how good you are as a software developer, if people don't see your work, it is very bad. Putting a software on the internet and allowing the users of it to send you feedback is always helpful because it gives you the opportunity to learn more. If people don't criticise your work, then you have not started.
This post is particularly for web developers because as a web developer,  the main way people get to see your work is when your publish it by hosting it on the internet. A web application that is hosted on a localhost server within your computer is only useful to you not others. The worst part of it is that not everybody knows how to install a web application on a localhost server and if you want this to be done you have to make the installation process easy for the end users by developing a program that does the installation for them.
But why on earth would someone want to install a web application on a local machine? Of course there are many intranet applications out there but these applications are being packaged and deployed with Windows Installer or similar programs. They are often developed to run within a coperate environment or so. You, as a web developer, you need to publish your work for people to see on the internet. Publishing your work is not free because you get to pay your hosting provider on a monthly basis or so but, nonetheless, you must publish your work for people to use and you can generate revenue by placing ads or beg the users of your program to donate for you. Hahaha, that is funny, isn't it?
Aside from web developers, other program developers are also advised to share their programs either via internet or other means. At first, I thought I was doing everything right until I published an open source project... Yes, the user experience of the program is not so bad but the coding itself was hell and I received so many criticisms and these criticisms have come to make a very good impact in my coding skills. Please share something and let those who are better than you or have been there before you, punch holes in that One-Million-Dollar-Program you think you have made.
Thanks for reading.

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