I was addressing the perfectionism - which paul graham's article talks about in a counter intuitive way (sort of "we will not serve a wine before it's time")
As to "paying" I was trying to think of venues where you can publish without compromising.
I think the answer might be something like a $5/mo droplet or something on a cloud service.
There are nice venues to publish free, like here on hn, but you lose control of your work - for example, it could be taken down, it could be heckled, etc...
That's if the publisher is actually decent and their mechanisms work.