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A comment on Ask HN: How do you find interesting topics to write about?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find interesting topics to write about? by incomingpain on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:58AM (#33530913)
You sound like me, here's what I did. I switched over to educational/helpful and no clickbait. I started writing with the goal of explaining some problem I had and how i solved it. These were the worst performing I've ever had.

Then I went into reporting the news and trying to cut the exaggeration. These went bad and never did well.

then I reported the news adding to the exaggeration and these did ok. I get the problem of the mainstream media and their lies.

then I tried the 'lets create a rop 0day and display it' and then you get lawyers.

then I tried social engineering educational and the need to be ever vigilant. Tons of comments, mostly everyone hates you for tricking them with social engineering.

then I did a spotlight on some key awesome open source people and somehow this did great. I wasn't even expecting it to do well and they were super niche people.

then we got a web marketing person and I was taken off the job.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find interesting topics to write about? by vitorfhc on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:17AM (#33531146)
I wish I had a marketing person to at least decide the subjects lol I am a freelancer now, I get paid to do that, maybe I can at least use SEO trending words to see what people like Anyway, the focus must be quality, not views But it's good to see your article appreciated and viewed, isnt it?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you find interesting topics to write about? by incomingpain on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:39AM (#33531398)
>Anyway, the focus must be quality, not views But it's good to see your article appreciated and viewed, isnt it?

Personally? views don't matter to me. My exploration was to just see what the results were.

If I have any desire it's not to become popular. Popular bloggers have to public speak and such, nope.avi.

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