Am I sure? I started a YouTube channel.
I always liked making videos.
At the time, I was taking a video-making course at the university.
After Effects, Adobe Premier, Blender, and so on.
And still, at that time, I played guitar in a band, and we recorded an album.
I am not new to video and audio recording, and I enjoyed it so much.
But this was a lifetime ago.
After that, I started my career as a web software engineer and never turned back.
A couple of years ago (time flies!) I made a live stream on YouTube. I spent a whole day building a Fullstack React app using Next.js, NextAuth, ChakraUI, Prisma, and PostgreSQL — and yes, it’s still the tech stack I use today.
2 years later, the video has 16k views! That’s pretty mind-blowing if you think about it.
You publish a piece of content, and it gets consumed for a long time.
That’s the beauty of YouTube. It’s not like Twitter, where a post is old after 24/48 hours.
The content lives on YouTube for a lot of time. There’s SEO involved. People search for content, and if yours is relevant, it gets shown and consumed.
Lately, I started consuming more content on YouTube. Any kind of content. Interviews, F1 analysis, coding, politics, everything.
So why not move from consumer to producer? (you should know I like to produce content now 😅)
So here we go.
I’m publishing a series of videos to teach you how to become comfortable with the tech stack I use.
Each video is a tutorial for beginners with all you need to get started with that topic.
The final goal is that you know how to build and launch a SaaS product, quickly and easily.
Here’s what I published so far and what will come next:
How to manage payments with Lemon Squeezy
PostgreSQL the best SQL database in the world
How to build a backend using Next.js
3 web products in 2 weeks — my tech stack explained (2024)
I started publishing on the 9th of April, so I didn’t expect amazing results. But here are the analytic numbers, and it doesn’t look bad.
Getting out of the comfort zone is a necessary step to improve and try something new—I’m hyped.
The real challenge would be to organize my time to record and produce this content.
As you know from one of my previous articles, my system with a 9-5 job consists of spending 1/1.5 hours in the morning doing my Twitter routine, plus developing a product.
And it already takes all of that time.
When would I record the videos? Nights and weekends.
Whenever you are ready, I can help you with your indie hacking journey.
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That’s all for today.
See you next Sunday 🙌
Luca
