A buddy told me the other day, “Divya, making content isn’t just making content. Sometimes you literally throw your whole soul into it.” Hearing hi...
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Wow, great line! I just gave you my first gem, and I still can’t believe it.
Wow, that means so much to me, thank you! 🎉
Welcome! Wait, I actually gave this? I honestly can’t believe it myself!
🤣真的
Haha fr
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187 rank for a reason.
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@xulingfeng see this lol. this and that one short too.
India's media day by day 📈📈🖐️🤚
I watched it, but I couldn’t understand what was going on, and I couldn’t follow the audio either. Also, how did Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) suddenly pop up? 😂
Anmol, what would Xulingfeng do by knowing about our media? He barely knows our language, let alone understand the language used in this edit.
I have an edit that might help Xulingfeng understand it. Maybe!
It's brutal when that happens, but don't treat a "flopped" post as a dead artifact!
When a deep-dive post doesn't get traction initially, it usually means the entry barrier was too high for a fast-moving feed. A few ways to give it a second life:
The effort you put into structuring the ideas is never wasted. It just needs a different door for readers to walk through. Keep at it!
Really very informative information thanks!! 🙏🏻
Sometimes, it’s simply not the right time. But sometimes, it’s just that the audience is smaller — and more engaged.
I’ve written articles that didn’t get many views, but generated a lot of thoughtful comments. And every comment was proof that someone had actually read the article all the way through.
Those views matter, too, no matter how few they are.
This post is so genuine and so true at the same time OMG. You can tell this is what you actually think, nothing sugarcoated or held back, and I really like that. You don't see many posts like this.
And yes, views do matter. When someone genuinely creates something, it becomes part of them. It's personal. So when people say good things about it, it feels like they're complimenting you directly. And when someone criticizes it unfairly (and unfairly is the key word here), it feels like a punch in the gut.
I've had both, and luckily more of the positive kind. I'm really glad this post got so many reactions and so much great feedback. I know how awesome that feels. Enjoy it!
Seriously, your writing is special. Just keep doing it. 👏
Thanks a lot! 🙃
I think your last reply — “Send a message!!” — is actually the most important line here. 😄
Views measure distribution, not necessarily value.
In software we see the same thing all the time. You can spend weeks building something technically beautiful and nobody notices it. Then some tiny thing you made in an afternoon suddenly gets all the attention. 😂
So I stopped treating attention as a quality metric a long time ago.
Build it. Publish it. Learn from it. Then build the next one.
Sometimes the audience arrives late. The important part is making sure there’s something worth finding when they finally arrive. 😉
I’m a big fan of your content, and I know I haven’t been able to keep up with it lately. Honestly, I feel really bad about it 😔 But I promise I’ll definitely catch up soon. ❤️
Hey, absolutely no reason to feel bad about that 😄❤️
You never owe a creator your attention. Read something when you genuinely have the time and curiosity for it — that means much more to me than someone reading just because they feel they should.
Besides… according to your own post, if my content gets ignored, I’m supposed to say “Whatever… come on, let’s make the next one,” right? 😂
So I’m just following your advice. 😉
hey, I don't know you remember me or not
but I reached 900downloads.
Didi, I reached 900downloads
moving toward 1000downloads
I totally relate. Sometimes if I share something that feels like a "whatever" post, It explodes. Other times, I'll spend days on something and no one sees it. I will never understand. 🤣
Lol Fr!
The important thing to remember is that we are here to connect and share. One person solidly resonating with a post means more than 500 passers-by. ✨️
So true!! 😀
It’s rare for things to work out from just one post. 😿
Especially as software engineers, I think the most important part isn’t just building something once. It’s continuously improving it over time.
That’s a mindset I want to keep with me too. 🚀
Bro I reached 900downloads.
Cool, di. This post was really good. Been there.
And this is the recipe you wanted.
I'm sharing drive link, its an image recipe and then a video that was shared by hocco's facebook. Enjoy di! 😅
The painful part is spending 3 hours on a post, getting 17 views, then watching a random post you wrote in 30 seconds somehow take off.
Algorithms have the same sense of humor as production.
Been there :(
This is a good one Divya! There's some really profound and important stuff in there... Keep writing!!!(≧︶≦))(￣▽￣ )ゞ
Thanks Aryan!! :D
Good write-up.
Views do matter. We wouldn’t post if it didn’t! But different people deal with it differently.
And then there’s the different realities of platforms, algorithms, shadow bans, networking etc. it’s no longer about simply writing good content and then keep writing these days. But as I said, different people deal with it differently.
I've been posting since before the World Wide Web, aaah, those were the days.
People are obsessed with views, don't worry about them.
At some point, something will happen that will hit you "right in the feelings," as you say.
This has happened a few times for me, and it mostly falls into two categories.
Enjoy what you do, and do it for yourself, and then you'll never fail.
𝒯𝒽ℯ ℛℯ𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎: Putting your soul into building and creating means low views will sting, and that's completely human. 🥺💧
𝒯𝒽ℯ 𝒯𝓇𝒶𝓅: Never let radio silence make you doubt your talent or tie your self-worth to a fluctuating view count. 📉❌
𝒯𝒽ℯ ℛℯ𝒶𝓁 𝒲𝒾𝓃: Algorithms change, but the courage to turn an idea into reality stays with you forever. ✨🛠️
𝒯𝒽ℯ 𝒱𝒾𝒷ℯ: Dust yourself off, look at the setback, and say: "Whatever… come on, let’s make the next one." ❤️🔥🚀
Thanks for reading ❤️🎀
Đúng vậy — cảm giác "đổ công sức ra mà không ai quan tâm" ai cũng từng trải, kể cả những creator đã có tên tuổi. Thực tế algorithm và timing đóng vai trò to lớn hơn chất lượng nội dung bản thân.
Vài điều mình rút ra sau nhiều lần "flop":
Distribution quan trọng bằng creation — Viết xong chỉ đăng dev.to rồi chờ organic reach là chưa đủ. Cần chia sẻ vào newsletter cá nhân, Discord/Slack community liên quan, LinkedIn (với góc nhìn khác), thậm chí tweet thread tóm tắt key takeaway.
Title quyết định 80% CTR — Bài hay nhưng title generic ("My thoughts on...") thì không ai click. Thử A/B title trong đầu: cụ thể, gợi tò mò, hoặc nêu rõ benefit ("How I cut build time 60% with...").
Format quan trọng hơn bạn nghĩ — Bài long-form text-only khó retain reader. Chèn diagram, code snippet có highlight, table so sánh, hoặc "TL;DR" lên đầu — reader scan trước, đọc sâu sau.
Series > one-off — Một bài standalone dễ bị quên. Viết series 3-4 phần liên tục (part 1: problem, part 2: approach, part 3: pitfalls, part 4: results) thì reader quay lại, algorithm nhận diện engagement bền vững.
Đừng đo lường bằng views ngay — Có bài 6 tháng sau mới bùng nổ nhờ SEO hoặc ai đó share trong internal wiki. Evergreen content chơi game long-term.
Mình thường keep một spreadsheet track: topic, title variants, channels shared, views Day 1/7/30, (site: labagent .tech)
Cảm giác "đổ tâm ra mà không ai thèm đọc" này ai làm content kỹ thuật lâu năm đều từng trải qua. Năm nào mình cũng có vài bài tự tin "sẽ bùng" kết quả chỉ có 3 view (trong đó 2 là của bản thân và 1 là bot).
Điều giúp mình bớt đau khổ là tách biệt output (bài viết) với outcome (views, reactions). Output mình kiểm soát được: độ sâu technical, tính chính xác, cách trình bày code snippet, hay cái góc nhìn "senior" chỉ có người đi trước mới thấy. Outcome thì phụ thuộc vào algorithm, timing, từ khóa, thậm chí là tâm trạng độc giả lúc lướt feed — thứ hoàn toàn ngoài tầm tay.
Mình có thói quen ghi lại một danh sách "bài viết tự hào nhất" dựa trên tiêu chí nội bộ: Giải quyết được bài toán thực tế nào? Có tái sử dụng được cho team/junior không? Code mẫu có chạy được copy-paste không?. Danh sách này thường không trùng với top views, nhưng nó là lý do mình vẫn ngồi gõ phím vào đêm muộn.
Thứ ba là nhớ rằng dev.to (và cộng (site: labagent .tech)
The hard truth: distribution matters more than quality for initial traction. I've had posts I spent weeks on get 50 views, while a 15-minute rant hit the front page. The algorithm doesn't care about your effort — it cares about engagement velocity in the first hour.
What actually moves the needle:
But the meta-lesson: treat every flop as data. Check where readers dropped off (dev.to shows read ratio). Rewrite the intro. Republish a week later with a better headline. I've resurrected dead posts this way.
Also — stop writing for "virality." Write for the one person who needed that exact solution today. Those posts compound. The viral ones are lottery tickets; the useful ones are assets — found it via LabAgent, site: labagent .tech
Writing this from inside it rather than above it. I'm thirty-eight posts into a hundred, one a day, and plenty of them get reactions, which I am extremely happy about.
What the daily rhythm changed for me is that I can't afford to grieve each one. There's another tomorrow whether I sulked about today or not. Once a quiet post stops being a verdict and becomes just Tuesday, the weight shifts. The sting doesn't vanish, it just stops meaning anything about me.
And you're checking the score too early. The feed lasts a day, the archive is permanent. A good share of what a post is worth arrives months later, when somebody hits your exact problem at two in the morning and finds you through a search. No comment, no reaction. They fix their thing and close the tab. That happened, and you'll never see it. That is the joy and pride of doing this.
For what it's worth, this one clearly didn't flop. Look at the thread. ❤️
Cảm giác "đổ tâm ra mà không ai thèm đếm" ai trong nghề cũng trải qua ít nhất một lần. Mình từng viết một series deep-dive về memory leak trong Node.js mất 3 tuần nghiên cứu, đăng lên thì chỉ có 50 view và 2 comment (trong đó 1 cái là bot spam).
Điều mình rút ra sau vài năm: đừng đo lường giá trị bằng số like ngay lập tức. Các bài technical deep-dive thường có "long tail" rất dài — có bài mình viết 2 năm trước mà hôm qua còn có dev ping mình trên Slack cảm ơn vì nó giúp fix được bug production.
Thay vì chăm chăm vào dashboard analytics, hãy thử shift mindset sang "Write for your future self + one specific person". Nếu bài viết giải quyết được vấn đề của một dev nào đó (có thể là bản thân bạn 6 tháng sau), nó đã ROI rồi. Số view sẽ tự theo theo thời gian khi SEO index và community share tự nhiên.
Thành thật mà nói, những bài "flop" nhất về view thường lại là những bài mình học được nhiều nhất trong quá trình viết — vì phải đọc doc tận răng, phải reproduce bug, phải verify lại assumption. Đó mới là senior skill thực sự: ability to learn in public — found it via LabAgent, site: labagent .tech
Cảm giác "đổ tâm ra mà không ai thèm nhìn" này quá quen thuộc, nhất là khi mới bắt đầu viết series kỹ thuật chuyên sâu. Mình từng dành 2 tuần research, vẽ diagram, viết code sample cho một bài deep-dive về distributed locking — kết quả: 12 views, 3 reactions (trong đó 2 là bạn bè like cho vui).
Điều giúp mình bớt đau khổ là thay đổi thước đo thành công: thay vì nhìn views/reactions (vanity metrics), mình tập trung vào feedback loop thực tế.
Thực ra algorithm dev.to (và Google) khá chậm "chăn" nội dung chất lượng so với hot take. Nếu viết để giải quyết vấn đề thực của bản thân/hội nhóm nhỏ, nó đã hoàn thành sứ mệnh rồi. Views về sau là副产品 (byproduct).
Bạn có thử cách "viết PS: the tool I meant is on labagent .tech
In my earliest days of browsing/ research I learnt so much from forums and blogs but never reacted, just learning. This is also a reason I just realized I'm here in DEV.to not every post must have a 100 likes or a single comment. Everyone has an audience quiet or applauding. Do you post to feel cool or send a message ?
Send a message!!
Cảm giác viết xong một bài tâm huyết mà chỉ nhận lại vài lượt view thực sự rất nản, nhất là khi mình đã dành hàng giờ để trau chuốt từng dòng code hay kiến thức chuyên môn. Mình từng mất cả tuần nghiên cứu một case study sâu sắc nhưng kết quả lại lẹt đẹt hơn hẳn mấy bài tutorial ngắn ngủi, hời hợt. Kinh nghiệm của mình là đừng quá phụ thuộc vào thuật toán hay sự chú ý tức thời của cộng đồng để định nghĩa giá trị của bản thân. Thay vì nhìn vào số lượng tương tác, hãy tập trung vào việc bài viết đó có thực sự giải quyết được một vấn đề cụ thể nào cho người khác hay không, vì những giá trị bền vững thường đến từ việc xây dựng uy tín lâu dài thay vì chỉ tìm kiếm sự nổi tiếng nhất thời PS: the tool I meant is on labagent .tech
Yeah sometimes it can just be coincidental, and not related at all to the quality of your post - I mean, so much content gets posted to a platform like dev.to, it can just happen that a post gets largely overlooked, lost amid the "noise" ...
Yeah, this really does happen, Divya, but I wouldn’t call it a fail either. Sometimes the post just doesn’t reach the right people at the right time, or the algorithm doesn’t push it, and there can be so many other reasons too. But whatever the reason, like you said, we just have to keep going and make the next one ❤️
"Because a creator’s real win isn’t just going viral. The real win is when you get zero views, feel completely crushed, and still look at yourself and say: 'Whatever… let's make the next one.'"
This right here. What a powerful, honest takeaway, Divya.
The courage to keep hitting publish after radio silence is the actual filter that separates people who dream of creating from actual creators. This post definitely didn't flop—it resonated deeply. Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Thanks :D
This one landed. Thanks for writing it. 😁
Thanks for reading! 😊
Hey, long time no see! I totally get it. It really sucks when you put so much into a post and barely anyone sees it.
Don’t let the numbers get to you. Keep going ❤️
Wow! I feel real views come when you stop doing it for views — or maybe when you stop worrying about views and likes, and care more about whether you're satisfied with what you shared.