I made it to the front page of HackerNews after 3 days of blogging, 6822 total views & 4279 podcast downloads, top 20

PS: If you want to have a look at my blog post and/or article that blew up, here it is: https://yassine.substack.com/p/the-gap-between-learning-code-and

Hey there, this is Yassine and I write about my journey as an entrepreneur and software developer. 3 days ago I started blogging. I decided to write at least 1 article in written & podcast format on Substack. I never promoted my content, neither shared it.
I made it a promise that I wouldn't promote anything until I'm past 3 articles. Today I finished my 3rd and couldn't wait for tomorrow to start promoting. So I shared today's article on HackerNews and it blew up.

My backstory and how my article came to life: You can think of me as a 'rebel' I got frustrated about all these rules to write content that people would want to read/listen to/watch. At some point, it got overwhelming, and honestly stopped caring. If I were going to write something that I believe brings value, then I was going to do it out of love as well.

As a matter of fact, each morning, I would come up with a topic on the spot for my article and write it down. It wouldn't take much research because I often speak out of experience and boy did I go through a lot.

My advice to you, set a system and forget the numbers, do you love blogging about cooking? go do it. Do you love exotic birds? Great, blog about exotic birds. Forget competitivity and saturation, there are a bunch of people waiting to read your masterpiece, written in your own style, and painted in your own passion.

I was honestly going to wait a bit to write this advice here because this is something counter-intuitive, but as long as I got here in such a short period, I thought I'd give back to the community I learned from the most. Don't fear experimentation and question everything!

Keep grinding, you'll get there!

PS: If you want to have a look at my blog post and/or article that blew up, here it is: https://yassine.substack.com/p/the-gap-between-learning-code-and