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Technology, finally explained!
This one calls for a celebration, for sure. It's been just one month of writing content behind a paywall, and one kind random stranger has become my first annual customer.
It is even more exciting because I have not even started marketing/distributing the content properly yet.
Still building the treasury.
So, this is the moment I waited for quite a month. It's a surreal feeling when someone brings out their credit card and gives you money.
I have always been writing, and for the first time, I had put it behind a paywall. I was nervous to do it, but sooner or later, I had to bite the bullet.
This one was special - not just because it was beautifully crafted but also because it's the first article, I distributed across the internet.
It's one of the most, if not the most, asked questions by a lot of my friends, "What the heck is an API?" I took a week to write down an explanation in simple English.
https://medium.com/@mohitmamoria/what-the-heck-is-an-api-6ed638dff08
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I liked the first part I could read on medium. When I clicked the image at end i was redirected (on mobile) to https://knowyknowy-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/knowyknowy.com/api/amp/ which only shows the header, no article
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Oh damn! Looks like there’s some issue with the AMP settings.
You can use this URL: https://knowyknowy.com/api/
Let me know if this works.
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Jan 1, 2020. It was the beginning of a new decade, and I very vividly recalled the days of the Millennium Bug or Y2K bug.
I decided to write the first article explaining exactly what it was and how it was fixed throughout the globe.
As it was the first article, I have kept it to be read for FREE by anyone who's a registered member of KnowyKnowy.
I, very frequently, kept running into people (mostly startup investors) who were having trouble getting hold of the latest technology jargon. 😔
Having written blog posts that dumbed down as complex subjects as blockchain for general mass (Google "WTF is Blockchain?"), I realized, there might be a market that'd pay a small monthly subscription to get articles like these. 🤑
Being the maker that I am, my first instinct was to code the entire website on my own from scratch. I had spent more than a week when I realized, the essence of KnowyKnowy is not "how cool it is technically", instead it is, "how well I can write the content."
That's when, after an hour of Googling, I settled on building the website in Ghost Headless CRM. I used the bundled free theme and moved my focus to writing from making.
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