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Chaoo Charles
Chaoo Charles

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Do you have a blog or a YouTube Channel?

Greetings! How are you doing? Are you a content creator and have a blog or a YouTube channel? Share a link at the discussion section below and I'll check it out.

I have a YouTube Channel where I create coding content. I have been creating tutorials for 11 months now. So far it have been great. I have 38k total views, 870 subsribers, $0 earned.

It's almost an year now. Although I haven't earned with YouTube yet, I have learnt extra skills like video editing, graphics design, communication skills(still working on this) and more. I have helped others in the field and this have helped me to deepen my knowledge as well.

My goal before an year ends is to reach 1k subscribers. You can check out my channel and subscribe if you find my content helpful. Here is the link: https://youtube.com/chaoocharles

You can also leave a link to your blog or channel at the discussion section below and I'll check it out.

Stay awesome! 💙

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Emma Goto 🍙

I have a blog:

emgoto.com

It's still very tiny (under 1000 page views a month) but I've been posting to it at least once a week all year. I'm thinking at some point of revamping the design a bit, and also adding a mailing list.

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Chaoo Charles

It's a great start and yeah, a mailing list would help notify visitors about new content and therefore retain 'em. It's actually a nice blog, I have taken a look at some post (monetizing Gatsby blog and state management using redux).

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Emma Goto 🍙

Yeah! I didn't realise people actually use mailing lists (I never sign up for them myself).

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Akshay Khale

I liked the design, simple and developer-friendly due to the Terminal themed, Dark UI.

All the very best.

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Emma Goto 🍙

Thanks!

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Ghazi Khan

Hi,

I have a blog and Youtube Channel.
Blog: codewithghazi.com
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCio7gIFilw6ws...

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Ignacio Jimenez

Nice blog

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Ghazi Khan

Thank you :)

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Chaoo Charles

A great website there, keep up the good work bro.

The link under "why blogging" is broken. check it out.

Also check out my YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/chaoocharles

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Ghazi Khan

Yes, I have already checked your channel. You have some cool videos. And thanks for telling me about the broken link. I will fix it now. :)

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Chaoo Charles

Okay, thanks too

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Morten Vestergaard

Hey Chaoo,

I started my YouTube channel Music and Coding about 6 months ago.. So far I only have 114 subscribers, but more is coming every week. I'm doing it mostly for my own benefit though.. It's a good way to learn.. :)

This is my channel: youtube.com/musicandcoding

I Subscribed to you channel :) It looks great.. Let's help each other grow our channels..

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Chaoo Charles

Wow, it's a great channel. I'm impressed, keep going bro 💙

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Morten Vestergaard

Thanks buddy!!

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Chaoo Charles

Wow, it's a great start. Also it's good it helps you learn more and help others at the same time. I will definitely take a look at it.

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Patricio Pitaluga

I do silent livecoding with a "primitive" approach youtube.com/watch?v=GFWWjLQokIU building web tools from scratch. I'm setting some restrictions like not using libraries and not checking answers on google. So far I have little views and subscribers but I'm having fun.

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Chaoo Charles

I have taken a look at it. It's a good challenge, I will try to survive on one. I don't know if I'll make it 😂😂

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MichaelBaldwin

I've had a blog for quite some time that I post to intermittently (michael.codes). I've also been posting the articles here on dev.to lately as well.

I have thought about giving a go at making content for YouTube, but I'm not sure how well I would keep up at that given how infrequent my blogging has usually been.

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Loralighte

YouTube Channel. I don't have a lot more than memes right now, but the memes are tech-related. I am working on a FreeBSD documentary for it, plus tutorials on a basic transpiler for a custom Lisp-like language to JavaScript in JavaScript, tutorials for installing/using FreeBSD, how to make a VSCode Syntax Highlighting Extension, plus more.

My Channel: KaiLikesLinux

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Chaoo Charles

Wow, I'll check it out 😊

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Kevin Pennekamp

I have a personal website vycke.dev on which I write mostly about CSS, front-end architecture and software engineering in general. It's small. But I don't maintain it perse for views, but as a playground as well!

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Jason Leung 🧗‍♂️👨‍💻

wow the design is sleek!

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Chaoo Charles

I have seen it. It have great content. You can try to make it more mobile responsive. Keep up the good work bro 💙

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Kevin Pennekamp

Thanks! Any particular feedback on the responsiveness?

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Chaoo Charles

Like on the first post, "fluid interface", I have to scroll side by side to read the main content. The screenshots are too big on mobile. You can make them small on mobile or make them scroll so that the main content is intact. (My opinion though)

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Kevin Pennekamp

hmm interesting. The min-width is set to 320px of the website, but around that breakpoint it should work correctly. The code-blocks are side-scrollable by design though. Everything else should only be vertical scrollable. I am gonna look into it, thanks.

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Chaoo Charles

Okay, take a look at it.

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Kevin Pennekamp

Already found a small visual bug that added a small side scroll on the smallest screen sizes, which should not happen. Would not have found it (soon) without your feedback. Thanks

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Chaoo Charles

Wow, you're welcome 😊

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James231

I have a blog here:
blog.jam-es.com
It doesn't get many views, I tend to use it to write up answers to questions I get asked rather for views.
Plan on adding AdSense soon. And writing content on Blockchain, Quantum Computing and also programming in .NET.

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Rahul Jain

Yes, I have a blog rahuldkjain.github.io/blog

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Chaoo Charles

Great content there. keep up bro

Also check out my YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/chaoocharles

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Sergio Daniel Xalambrí

I have a blog on sergiodxa.com

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Chaoo Charles

Wow, that's a lot of content bro. Keep up the good work. Have you considered creating a mail list, to notify funs about new content. Also if you have good traffic you can consider adding a few ads and using affiliate links. They can act as a good reward for your hard work. Anyway, I'm impressed and keep on creating 💙

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Sergio Daniel Xalambrí • Edited

I have considered it, and tried it but I prefer to just tweet when I publish a new article.

I have no idea how much traffic I have, I don’t have analytics on my blog, I don’t like to be tracked so I don’t track any visitor.