I am very poor at executing things and I often end up searching for how other developers manage their time. And sometimes I wish to :
Anyone knows any platform/newsletter where I can subscribe to this?
If I create such platform ( preferably newsletter ), will you be interested ?
#idea-validation
Not what they're doing in life but what they're doing to become better devs.
@runexec sure, what I actually meant was what they are doing to excel in life (in general)
I'm a dev and interested in excelling in life, but I hit peak newsletter about 6 years ago. My primary inbox is currently at 13,781 unread. It was probably a great way to reach me in the past but now I just have too much low value noise coming in from marketers who are looking to make a profit on a fairly short time-frame. Andre Chen calls this "The law of shitty clickthroughs"—the more popular a channel becomes, the more low quality material enters it and the less effective it becomes.
I pretty much try to focus on long-form content these days, with a bias towards things that come through a personal recommendation or a google search I make.
Practically, this means podcasts and books. Online books, especially if they're in a format with some kind of value add, like a Gitbook, are great, too. The right sort of desktop-aimed webapp might be able to do it, too.
Your answer is?
My answer is, "maybe but preferably NOT a newsletter". 😂
@alchemist I get what you are saying, lots of newsletter are bounced. For the v1 I don't want to spend too much time. Starting newsletter is pity easy, hence I opted for it. Creating a podcast, webapp is too much investment, I guess.
I wish to roll out the content twice every month. Even if it is a blog/newsletter how do prefer to consume the content ?
What are you going to cover in the newsletter? Mind giving example?
Lots of good developers follow techniques/hacks to make their work/life productive. Often they share this information across social media, blogs etc. I intend to capture these information ( all public info ) in the form of newsletter. Even talk to them to provide in-depth knowledge.
Not limited to hacks or techniques but what other developers are doing in their free time.
Does it make any sense?
How are you going to make money from this?
For now I am not focussing on the monetisation part. But for traditional newsletters sponsorship is the default, I guess.
I am looking how to engage users around this idea ( ex: A day in the life of X, what they do and how they do ) and through what medium my target audience wants to consume this content.
I am a writer, developer and sometimes I draw. I am thinking of adding up comics to deliver inspiring messages. I can start merchandise around comics ( in the long run )
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