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make a screencast #1

Open schaary opened 10 years ago

schaary commented 10 years ago

Hey Tim,

i love, love, love(!) the page railscasts by Ryan Bates about almost everything around Ruby on Rails - deep dives into the code of Rails, tools around the development of Rails-Apps, neat gems - you name it. It helps me a lot in many cases. Often I start a solution of a problem by looking through the archive of railscasts.com, whether there is a nice explanation of a gem which could help me. It seems you know at least as much about JavaScript as Ryan Bates knows about Ruby and Ruby on Rails. So - why don't you start a page similar to railscasts.com about JavaScript? I know almost nothing about JavaScript but since a long time I try to start with things like emberjs or something like that. 10-15 minutes screencasts focusing on a certain problem with a nice solution, well explained ... would be perfect. I am happy to pay 9 bugs to @rbates because the content and the explanations by Ryan are worth it. Stay short, focus on a single issue, offer a nice solution and a good explanation and I am sure you will become happy :)

Regards, Michael

creationix commented 10 years ago

I like how he has a schedule of a new post every week with the first week reserved to update an existing video. Since these are short videos, it shouldn't be a problem to keep that rate of output.

creationix commented 10 years ago

I wonder what happened to @ryanb. He seems to have burned out. I'd love to pick his brain about what he did right and what I should avoid.

schaary commented 10 years ago

Usually he made two videos in a week - one for free and one for paying users only. I like the payment model - it assures a static income. And when you focus on a single issue, your screencasts will be found outside of your page as well ...

schaary commented 10 years ago

There are some discussions on the web about how he is now - It seems he is fine now and I bet he will return in september :) When you read between the lines it seems his burnout came, because he worked 40h a week on his day-to-day job and made the screencast by the way. In my opinion - when he started the screencasts as full-time job, he was already over the line and then he started to realize the pressure to produce content.

EnlightenedCode commented 10 years ago

I would be a supporter of something like this too Tim.

creationix commented 10 years ago

I'm going for this idea. I have a super ugly landing page at http://learn.creationix.com/ and am starting my first series on learning to create a programming language.

If anyone has any designer or copy writer friends who want to make the landing page not ugly, that would be great. I'm currently spending most my time developing this first course.