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ποΈ 23 August 2019
β±οΈ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Jessica Chan, welcome to the Indie Hackers podcast. |
0:03.2 | Yeah, thanks for having me on. |
0:05.1 | Thanks for coming on. |
0:06.0 | You are the founder of Coder Coder, a website where you help others acquire the skills |
0:10.3 | they need to build their very first website. |
0:12.6 | Tell us a little bit about what you do and how it all works. |
0:16.0 | Yeah, so Coder Coder, it's a side hustle right now. |
0:19.1 | I do work full time as a freelance web developer. |
0:22.1 | But basically, I have a blog where I post coding tutorials and other articles. And then I have |
0:27.8 | social media presence on Instagram mainly, and then now Twitter and YouTube, which I'm sort of |
0:32.9 | just starting to grow those. Yeah, you are at 30,000 followers on Instagram. |
0:38.3 | You have a thousand subscribers to your YouTube channel and your NDHackers product |
0:44.3 | page says that you get between 50 and 60,000 page views every month to your blog. |
0:48.3 | So the milestones you post are pretty cool. |
0:50.3 | Not very many people talk about growing their Instagram or growing their YouTube |
0:54.6 | subscribers on indie hackers. Most people are relying on hacker news and they're relying on |
0:58.4 | Twitter followers and things like that. So I'm curious how you got started here. Which of these |
1:02.2 | channels came first for you? Yeah. I started the blog first as, you know, that's my main |
1:07.9 | sort of home base, I guess you could say. And then after that, for some reason, I just decided to go on Instagram. And I discovered this really vibrant dev community there. And so that's been just a really fun experience. And I feel like I get to connect with other developers, like all around the world, which has been really great. Yeah, Instagram was kind of a crazy channel because I'm not a huge Instagram user myself. I'm kind of on there every now and then posting to my story like once every quarter or something like that. But we had an Instagram account for indie hackers. In fact, we still have it. And it's pretty hard to grow. You've been like super good at growing it and finding like the developers and finding the engineers on Instagram. So we're going to get into your tactics and your tricks there. But let's let's go to the beginning since you started with a blog. How did you come up with the idea for coder coter and what made you start a blog? Yeah. So I had sort of, I'd come into web development in a pretty non-traditional, very roundabout way. I got a degree in photography, never took a programming |
2:02.0 | course in school, but I kind of fell into web development when I landed this temp job for data |
2:06.8 | entry formally, but then they ended up teaching me programming because they were like a small |
2:11.0 | web dev shop. And after two years, you know, I just had some basic sequel back end and then some |
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