What it means to develop in the open

Here's a post I wrote about taking my open source influences and applying them to the release cycle of our commercial software product:

https://www.flipsidexr.com/blog/post/70/what-it-means-develop-open

I tried to explore some of the differences and challenges, some community building challenges we've had, and how it's helped us overall. I wouldn't recommend a lot of products necessarily follow the "release early, release often" philosophy in the same way, or at every stage of their product lifecycle, but there are likely similar cases where it may be beneficial to consider.