Gauging Interest on a Dedicated Golang Tutorial Site
So for the past few weeks now, I have been doing my best to learn all that I can about Golang, how it works, and even building a few applications at work to support parts of our infrastructure. However, I noticed the complete lack of really well made tutorials. Not necessarily high in quality like those of EggHead or Pluralsight. But I was considering a site more "humanistic". It caters to really who the audience is, and often times it is people interested in Go as their next language to learn!
So this post is more of gauging feedback and just asking around to see if anyone is possibly interested in building something like this with me in our spare time! It will most likely be a free resource to start but very high potential for monetization if we build it right!
It's definitely feasible to build what you're describing for Golang. There's certainly a market for it too. Take a look at what @excid3 has accomplished with https://gorails.com/ . It's a very well thought out and valuable resource. If you reach out to Chris he may be able to give you some pointers/lessons learned from his experience. Good luck!
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I definitely could see something like this being useful for Golang. I think the big thing is to just make sure you're willing to commit to the language for the long term and you know it well enough to have plenty of ideas.
In all honesty, you probably should just skip the gauging interest part and just start building what you'd find helpful for your learning. If you build something you'd use and nothing out there already fits what you want, then you might as well go for it.
Happy to answer any questions as well!
Thank you! This is extremely good feedback! I m thinking of using my own personal experiences with learning Go as a start. As someone who has heavy in-depth knowledge with NodeJS, Go was a bit of a curveball for me. I think it's a niche enough topic to make something of the type of work Wes Bos has done for React tutorials.
Chris has also inspired me. A commenter on the Elixir forum told me they thought my channel was like his and to please continue being like him! Haha.
It’s a tough undertaking. But there certainly is a market for it.
If we also consider that Go is gaining more and more traction, someone will inevitably create a go-specific learning platform.
Exactly my thoughts! It just needs to be very well targeted
I normally wouldn't say this, but watch my video. I went over everything that went into my decision making process around teaching Elixir.
tldw; the opportunity with Go ok, but it's a bit competitive if you don't already have an audience. I'd niche down to something smaller. I did niche down to something smaller.
Completely agree with @alchemist, especially if you don't already have deep knowledge of the language. Focusing on a web framework might be the way to go initially although I'm not sure there's a mature enough framework that's leading the pack and being widely adopted.
I was considering keeping it all about Go and AWS to start.
To get more focused you could always ride the ~trend~ and focus on Lambda Go microservices and deployment on AWS .
It's a good idea. Just target serverless projects
There is a lot of info out there on Go but what you're describing could have a lot of value. I've been using it for a bit now and while it is easy to pick up there's a few learning humps before you're really able to get the best from it.
I would expect Go's popularity to continue to grow. It's just too insanely fun and effective.
What sort of help would you be looking for?
I'm the kind of person who sees any kind of help as good! For now I would say just development and design effort to crank out a MVP
Hey, if you do end up doing it, would you like to join a mastermind group with me and a buddy who is doing a similar kind of thing in a blockchain niche? If so, just email!
It's not a bad idea haha. Send me an email or DM me on Twitter!