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Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog by 0xEF on Thursday January 30, 2025 @11:52AM (#42879582)
When people give advice to content creators in the form of "when you do interesting things" my brain immediately jumps to one question; how do you know what other people consider interesting?

Honest question, because I am just starting out, myself. I have a small blog where I share my opinions and projects related to technology I enjoy. However, if I were to do a thought experiment and assume my audience is HN readers, I'd hesitate to say anyone here would find my posts very interesting. I like them, but I am not sure who else would.

I genuinely do not understand how to evaluate an audience, so I just write what I like to write and hope for the best.

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Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog by moehm on Thursday January 30, 2025 @02:00PM (#42880912)
I know people here don't like site analytics, but for this one it's pretty good.

Setup Matomo or similar analytics software, write about a bunch of topics and review after a year which topics your readers are most interested in, for which they search on your site etc.

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Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog by rednafi on Thursday January 30, 2025 @02:38PM (#42881356)
Don’t evaluate your audience; it’s a losing game. Write things so you can find them later, and leave the rest to chance. Worked quite well for me.
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Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog by econ on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:59PM (#42882588)
It primarily refers to what you consider interesting.

When you have a decent number of posts and some visitors you can see which sub set they find the most interesting.

You can also make a blog about things that don't interest you at all. This is the shortest route to success and you will hate your new job :)

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