Re:How I generated incomes as a web developer without workin...
by ivoecpereira on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:23AM
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Summarizing my experience: I have published a single article with the goal of better understanding the subjects and be able to correctly teach it (ofc a side income would be nice as well). Wanted to provide more value than what existed and posted in my own blog (powered by Telescope.ac), Substack, Medium, Dev.to and HackerNoon (sent for approval and got approved). Medium editors liked it and recommended it in the frontpage and their newsletters and "The Startup" magazine invited me to publish the story as theirs as well. And, as your belief, it suddenly "exploded": https://i.imgur.com/JHIoUIy.png
Too bad the post received a somewhat bad criticism and my moral went down to keep writing at the time. I will get back to it someday for sure.
Re:How I generated incomes as a web developer without workin...
by mehdi-farsi on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:41AM
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Would be glad to read your posts!
Re:How I generated incomes as a web developer without workin...
by mooreds on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:56AM
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Agreed, please share a link.
Re:How I generated incomes as a web developer without workin...
by ivoecpereira on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:10AM
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Thank you both! A Friend Link without Paywall :) https://medium.com/swlh/why-you-shouldnt-use-offset-and-limi... Let me know if you have any suggestions on it, would love to know about them!
One of the things I've learned is literally don't "impose" anything to your readers. What I've written is mainly cited by big sources (and I have included the sources in the article!), but people rather prefer to point the finger if they do not agree with you.
I believe the article title is a bit "imposing" on the reader, but so do are all the other "click-baity" titles we see everywhere, and in this case I am able to prove my point of view, being it through an explanation or a PoC that I do provide as well. But people are mean :)
I think that leveraging a platform like medium or dev.to can really help. I republish some content there and especially if you get picked up by one of the "magazines" it can put you in front of a different audience. This belief is based on a large part on research rather than firsthand experience, though.