The best time to have started was 3 years ago. The second best time to start is right now.
I would say to follow your passion. If it would be fun and easy for you to put together some sort of monitoring course I say go for it! I wouldn't worry about people being able to buy it on their own. I know that I could figure out how to snap together these monitoring tools, but if I can pay $8.99 for someone to do all of that research and spoonfeed me the info that is totally worth it.
In terms of expected payout, I wouldn't expect a windfall. I definitely think it would be valuable as a portfolio item, especially if you think you would enjoy a career in teaching/training. If you have a reader base from your blog/tutorials you might be able to leverage that.
Thanks for the input. That was kind of my thinking, I'm not expecting to start making courses and leave my job in 12 months time, this is more something to keep me occupied, give me a reason to keep learning new skills, and a definitely portfolio/cv padder.
I've been sat doing some research on Udemy for a couple of hours and it really seems things like Python are heavily covered, and even though I'm not aiming to do this purely to make money, it would be disheartening to put effort in to a course that's buried amongst 10,000 others. Maybe niche subjects like monitoring, where most won't bother due to low viewer counts, are where it's at nowadays.
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The best time to have started was 3 years ago. The second best time to start is right now.
I would say to follow your passion. If it would be fun and easy for you to put together some sort of monitoring course I say go for it! I wouldn't worry about people being able to buy it on their own. I know that I could figure out how to snap together these monitoring tools, but if I can pay $8.99 for someone to do all of that research and spoonfeed me the info that is totally worth it.
In terms of expected payout, I wouldn't expect a windfall. I definitely think it would be valuable as a portfolio item, especially if you think you would enjoy a career in teaching/training. If you have a reader base from your blog/tutorials you might be able to leverage that.
Thanks for the input. That was kind of my thinking, I'm not expecting to start making courses and leave my job in 12 months time, this is more something to keep me occupied, give me a reason to keep learning new skills, and a definitely portfolio/cv padder.
I've been sat doing some research on Udemy for a couple of hours and it really seems things like Python are heavily covered, and even though I'm not aiming to do this purely to make money, it would be disheartening to put effort in to a course that's buried amongst 10,000 others. Maybe niche subjects like monitoring, where most won't bother due to low viewer counts, are where it's at nowadays.
Make sure you post it to HN when you are done! I'm definitely interested in checking it out.
Thanks for the extra motivation!