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Starting a Youtube Channel and gaining my first 1000 Subscribers

Adrian Twarog on March 05, 2020

My 2020 Goal this year was YouTube. Moreso, I wanted to attempt to create 365 videos this year (ideally one every single day). Youtube: Adrian T...
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Jared

Hi Adrian! Nice work, I've seen some of your videos pop up in my recommended, so you must be doing something right! Congrats on 1.4K subs! I'm definitely doing something wrong haha

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Adrian Twarog

Oh wow really! That's cool.

Thanks, I recently had to help a friend by filling at his workplace doing 9-5, so I haven't had a chance for more videos, but that's finishing soon, and I am going to make up for it by trying to make 2 per day.

What sort of recommended videos came up? I am still trying to identify if I should narrow down my content to a subsection of design and development, or if I should broaden it out more?

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Jared

I know for sure one of the videos I saw/watched was the "Disagreeing with the TechLead: I don't think React Native is garbage". I assume that's a popular one for you haha. I'm pretty sure I saw the one about Styled components too, but I don't really remember now.

I don't know what you should do lol I've heard that it's best to just take the shotgun approach in the beginning and see what sticks. Narrow down your focus on the most popular videos. But, I have 39 subs, so I'm not an opinion that you should care about haha

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Adrian Twarog

Na that’s good advice. It’s also sort of what I’ve been trying to do too! I think I could gain a lot more subs and views if I did more videos like the techlead one, but I like doing the styles components one more!

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Jared

I think your instructional vida are more useful. Arguing about tech stacks is a waste of time in my opinion. Even though I watched both haha

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Adrian Twarog

I agree though I didn't know it until after I tried doing it!

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Jared

Don't know until you try!

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kethmars

Thanks for sharing your experience. It was exactly what I was looking for as I started my own channel about developer habits and mindset a few weeks ago(youtube.com/channel/UCJLZwePkNHps5...).
Do you think there's a "market" for that kind of topic?

Also, great job on custom thumbnails - they seem really "catchy".

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Adrian Twarog • Edited

Just watched, that's a really good video. I can see you put a lot of work into it, very high quality and a good story.

I think you will do very well, just make sure you keep at it and share your story here on dev.to too!

  • feedback: I liked the middle of the video the most, where you told me more about your feelings and expressed them too! (with the big yes! when you learnt code reviews and such!)
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kethmars

Oh wow! Thank you for your encouragement and feedback, I genuinely appreciate it!

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Jarmos

Wow! That was a nice read! I created this account a few days back to blog. Just like you, I plan on "writing", preferably everyday & it's such a coincidence that the first post I read is yours.

Besides, this site has a very unique UI/UX, any idea how do I "like" or give you "hearts" for the post? :P

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Adrian Twarog

Hey, @Jarmos thanks.

I'll have to keep an eye out for your articles when you start posting haha :)

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Shaiju T

Hi Good 😄 , Can discuss tools used in below post:

dev.to/shaijut/ask-dev-what-tools-...

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Adrian Twarog

Hey I’ve kept it relatively simple. Just OBS for recording and the. adobe premier to encode it. Though happy to answer any questions you may have that are more specific :)

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Shaiju T

I am looking for open source software which can do below things:

Editing , Clipping
Adding Audio Track.
Add some Transition effects.

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Adrian Twarog

Try Davinci Resolve, I heard that was both free and good!
blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/d...