🎉 Launched YouTube Channel, Advice ?
I always wanted to start a tech youtube channel and build a community, so i finally put in the work and launched it with my first video ever. I've never done anything like this before and i cringe every time i hear my own voice in a video, so this is out of character but very exciting.
Key issues i noticed in my video are :
1. low quality video
2. mic audio
3. too many cuts
hopefully i'll get better with more practice and invest in a better camera. I'm recording on my phone and plan on investing in a better one down the road. I'm also gonna put the mic closer to my face for better audio quality. There are thousands of annoying cuts, but that will change when i get more comfortable being on camera.
check it out if you're interested and let me know what u think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5iLbW3Doc
Do you have any tips and tricks to grow my channel ? i know consistency is the biggest factor and i plan on following through.
Have an amazing day 🖐
My main advice is to lower your quality bar. Don't worry about making videos perfect for now. Just make a lot. You'll get better at it and be able to increase your quality over time.
My first external mic was an audio-technica AT9933USB shotgun mic. It was about $10 USD and does a pretty good job of only picking up audio directly in front of it (which helped me a ton since I'm in a noisy environment). I used it for about 9 months, and only bought a better one after I had the revenue from my videos to do so.
Thanks alchemist, i feel much better once i compare myself to youtubers' first videos and see how they got better over time.
Hey Bro! Congrats on starting! first things first! do you want to make money on Youtube, or do you want to be known as a coder /ux designer? if you are planning on becoming a coder your future could look like, coding ebooks, applets, scripts, etc for sale on gumroad, and youtube would basically substantiate your credibility. maybe even consider opening a patreon page, and get a small community going. However, if your goal is not really coding, but rather to make money on youtube, I have to say, coding is super-saturated, AND there is not enough demand for a video on netflix recommendation scripts. So if you want to make money, get into stuff that is more searched. check google for what top searches are on youtube. some suggestions in your sort of field might be: top 10 languages to code in, or "best practice while doing UX" or how to begin coding good luck bro!
Thanks for the advice Racoon. I want to be known as a coder and build a community mostly. I'm not fully interested in making money of ads on youtube but that wouldn't hurt either.
Really really good man! I think there is a lot of opportunity with videos like that to get a lot of subscribers. Also I wasted an entire day trying to figure out why CORS was blocking my API calls before haha.
thanks Jamie 😃
Agreed with alchemist, the value's in the content being produced. I would recommend using a stable camera though. Instead of a dedicated fancy mic, try using a corded lapel mic first - it makes a world of a difference, and they cost <$10.
Further down the line when you have thousands tuning in, you can do a 'brain dump' session, from which you select the bits you want to cover and then you rerecord the pieces you wanted to say. So you're basically recording twice - as if you were to watching your current video and record another one where you'd use the first as your teleprompter.
To grow your channel, I'd lock in the target audience and find out where they spend time online. Reddit comes to mind, as does StackOverflow.
Thanks @ovi, I'll come up with a way to target them without coming across too spammy on reddit
It's original content that should help viewers - nothing spammy about it. Just find the right sub (s)