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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 oth
by 0xEF 2y ago
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.
- moehm 2y agoI 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.
- rednafi 2y agoDon’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.
- econ 2y agoIt 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 :)