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> If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurri

> If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurricane. This has not proven to be true over a long enough window. I've kept a blog of some kind since 2005 and I'm always surprised looking at the traffic what posts get picked up by Google and end up driving traffic for one reason or another. One of my posts is prominent enough that I recently started to notice inbound traffic from ChatGPT (I assume it is being cited as authoritative on the subject). A few years back, I started on Medium with 0 readers and just started writing. 100 ticked by and it was a small milestone. Then 500, then 1000. Just write in your authentic voice; don't think about an audience. There are literally thousands of videos on recipes for omelettes (example) on YT, yet more are published every day. The thing is, there's a video and a voice for every audience.

vallode 2y ago
The market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world, everyone has a slightly different subjectivity and therefore has a slightly different optimal experience when it comes to TODO lists. Subjectivity is formed over time and through the course of events, therefore the market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world for a given timeframe. It's an obvious hyperbole but I think it stands to show that, in a similiar fashion, there is a reader (and by some aggregation readers plural) for everything you might think of writing. How to get started with web development in 2025? What is ray-casting? How to emulate a piece of hardware in <language>? What I had for dinner tonight! It may not be that everything is viral or a hit but you should find that most of the content you right will resonate with _someone_ and potentially help multiple _someones_. Sometimes being satisfied with that 10-100 readers is all there is to it.

vallode 2y ago

The market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world, everyone has a slightly different subjectivity and therefore has a slightly different optimal experience when it comes to TODO lists. Subjectivity is formed over time and through the course of events, therefore the market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world for a given timeframe. It's an obvious hyperbole but I think it stands to show that, in a similiar fashion, there is a reader (and by some aggregation readers plural) for everything you might think of writing. How to get started with web development in 2025? What is ray-casting? How to emulate a piece of hardware in <language>? What I had for dinner tonight! It may not be that everything is viral or a hit but you should find that most of the content you right will resonate with _someone_ and potentially help multiple _someones_. Sometimes being satisfied with that 10-100 readers is all there is to it.