I’ve found writing my own software a wonderful experience over a number of years; seeing how my skills have improved, seeing the evolution of the site, seeing what fads came and went. Obviously if you’re focused primarily on the message rather than the medium then using pre existing software—providing its not a trick to wall garden your now tracking-laden content—is a good idea.
I have a website/blog that gets 1-2 million people per year, if I monetized I could get 5-20k/yr
This depends on so many things. For one, there are various ways to monetize. Sure, if you just slapped Adsense on the sight, that may be your earnings. However, if you add in some of your own products, as well as direct affiliations, you could earn $10k+/month. I've heard of people making triple that in a single month.
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"Because I couldn't find any other blog software, I decided to write my own."
Famous last words of a blogger.
I didn't want to fall into that trap and started with a blogging service right away.
3 years after I started blogging as a new years resolution, it became my main source of income.
Wouldn't have thought that I, the dude who almost dropped out of HS because of his bad English, would work as a writer one day.
I’ve found writing my own software a wonderful experience over a number of years; seeing how my skills have improved, seeing the evolution of the site, seeing what fads came and went. Obviously if you’re focused primarily on the message rather than the medium then using pre existing software—providing its not a trick to wall garden your now tracking-laden content—is a good idea.
It can and does work for many people.
But for most it's just a time sink.
You want to do a cool software project over a longer time? Build your own blog!
You want to write? Write!
Doesnt this just mean your income before was low?
I have a website/blog that gets 1-2 million people per year, if I monetized I could get 5-20k/yr... But I make 150k+/yr at my day job.
Really makes it hard to become a full time writer of technical stuff.
This depends on so many things. For one, there are various ways to monetize. Sure, if you just slapped Adsense on the sight, that may be your earnings. However, if you add in some of your own products, as well as direct affiliations, you could earn $10k+/month. I've heard of people making triple that in a single month.
Sorry, I didn't mean the blog became the income source, but blogging/technical writing in general.
But yeah, I don't make 150k a year by writing.
Thank you for honesty. It makes me glad I didn't double down.
I still write, but I can write for myself rather than the profit.
Well done mate! Love hearing underdog success stories. What was your secret to success in effective communication?
Thanks!
I don't really have secret.
But you should write for someone that really exists, or at least existed in the past. Like yourself (from a a few weeks ago).
That's actually a pretty interesting approach.
Yes.
Last week I didn't know the exact steps of the TLS handshake. Now, I do.
There are probably a bunch of people like me last week.