What counts as a post?

Anything work-related that you can show.

It does not have to be finished, and it does not have to be a case study.

Things that are posts

A screen recording of something working. A before and after. A screenshot of a process you rebuilt. A thing you figured out that took you three days and would take someone else three minutes now. A tool you tested and abandoned, and why. A rough cut. A diagram you drew to explain something to a colleague. A decision and the reasoning behind it.

None of those are portfolio pieces in the traditional sense, and that is deliberate.

Why the bar is low on purpose

This is structural rather than generous.

A profile made of ten small real things describes you better than one polished summary. The polished summary is what a CV already is, and the whole problem with a CV is that it compresses a year of work into a line that could have been written by anyone.

There is also a practical reason. The threshold for "is this good enough to post" is the single biggest reason people's work stays invisible. If the bar is a finished case study with results, most work never clears it, because most work is ongoing, or unglamorous, or belongs to a client, or does not have clean numbers attached. Set the bar there and you end up with a profile that is three items long and two years old.

The work you would describe in a conversation is the work worth posting. If you would say "oh, I rebuilt our whole reporting flow last month" out loud, that is a post.

What does not work

A post with no tags.

It is still published and it is still yours, and it will appear to anyone who lands on your profile. But Tags is how everything on Litterae is browsed, so an untagged post is effectively invisible to everyone who does not already know you exist, which is the exact audience the platform is for.

Tagging takes a few seconds. It is not metadata housekeeping; it is the entire mechanism.

On work you cannot show

Most people's best work is under an NDA, inside someone else's product, or bound up with numbers they are not allowed to publish. That is normal and it does not disqualify you.

The way through is usually to show the method rather than the artefact. The process you designed, not the client it was for. The structure of the solution, not the revenue it produced. The tool chain, not the account. A sanitised version of a workflow is still a real demonstration of how you think, and how you think is the thing someone browsing is actually assessing.

If you genuinely cannot show any part of it, write the thing you learned. A short piece explaining a problem and how you approached it is a post, and it is often more useful to a reader than the artefact would have been.

How often

There is no cadence to keep up with and nothing decays if you stop.

But the profile is made of what you post, so it describes the period you were posting in. Someone who posted steadily for two months last year has a profile about last year. That is not a penalty. It is just what the thing is. Post when there is something to show, and the profile stays current as a side effect rather than as a chore.