What to do next?
I'm planning to create online courses and ebooks.
What are your suggestions for me? I want to be a solopreneur (I was an entrepreneur before, twice, and I like less is more).
Maybe, there's someone who was like me.
What I have:
- Full-time free-time
- 25+ years of coding experience
- Financial freedom for a year
What I don't have:
- Audience
- Lack of launching online courses and ebooks experience
- Extrovert (I'm an introvert)
I think your first step should be to take one step back.
Instead of starting with your features (online course or ebook), start by thinking about your customers and their desires, then work backwards to derive what features you should build.
Is there a specific thing you want to teach? Who wants to learn it? Are you sure? Why do they want to learn, when do they want to learn, and what kinds of concerns do they have at that point in time? For example, have they tried and failed to learn this thing in the past for some reason?
Okay, now you should be in a much better place to decide what the most compelling and effective way to teach them is. Maybe it's a course or an ebook, sure. But maybe it's neither of those things. Maybe it's an interactive game. Maybe it's a bunch of curated research you've done for them.
For example, Indie Hackers is an attempt to help people learn to start an online business. But it's not an online course. It's a collection of interviews and a community, because what a lot of aspiring founders really want is the ability to talk to each other and peek behind the curtains of more established businesses.
EDIT: If you're dead set on building a course or writing an ebook, that's fine, there's nothing wrong with doing what you're passionate about! But take extra care to choose a topic/customers who actually need that solution.
Hi Courtland! First, thanks!
This is my current problem. I don't know how to do market research to learn people's desires. I recently created an online article series (https://medium.com/im-learning-go-golang) to learn more about this, but I don't know any other ways. Maybe, I'll learn this on the road. There are 100+ subscribers in one day to my publication, I feel that maybe this a good thing.
This is a great question. Now, I'm thinking how to find that out. I can guess from my own experiences maybe.
Yeah, those are great ideas also. However, I don't want to loose my grips, I become motivated when a see even little feedback from people. For example, when people followed my publication, I felt good and a reason and motivation to continue.
just want a bit more info.
what do you do for the 25+ year? multiple tech stacks?
start as a C++ developer? and doing front end these day?
what you can teach?
Hi!
I started with assembly, C, amiga, msdos batch and gwbasic, then to web development since 1996. and since, 2000s I've been into backend/frontend development with go, node.js, react, java, ror, .net etc. I'm also proficient in linux, CLI, vim, sublime, atom etc.
I want to teach something with Go. But, I don't know how to do market research. Recently, I created an online article series in Medium: https://medium.com/im-learning-go-golang
My history:
2016... Go
2013... Node.js, React, React-native, Redux, Functional Programming, RxJS...
2005... Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
2000... .Net
1990... Assembly, C, Basic, ASP, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS
More here: https://www.codementor.io/inanc