do you think you could start egghead.io today and it would be as successful as its become?

I don't really take selfies but I do have this on Twitter! https://twitter.com/chrisoncode/status/1297589334103584768

Here's my entire setup gear: https://kit.co/chrisoncode/megadesk I'll be moving at the end of the month and redoing my setup. I'll be posting a writeup about it then!

You don't have to live stream! There are so many great outlets to get content out from blogging to YouTube. Do whatever you're most comfortable with

You're on the right path! Let necessity and problem solving guide your path. Find a real problem that you have and that some other people have and try to provide a solution to solve it. Problem solving and providing value is the core of any good business

Thanks for the support! I have no big secret really. Just embracing the grind and writing 1 article at a time. Scotch has been around 6 years now so it's definitely about consistency and trying to do something productive weekly! Consistency is the big secret I guess

Just kept writing what I was learning about and it resonated with developers luckily. Provide real value first and the rest (traffic, traction) will follow I never did any outreach to attract new authors. It was all word of mouth and I love all the authors that have written with Scotch.

Hey hey! That one wasn't me (it was https://twitter.com/codebeast) and I haven't messed with 8base myself. Looks awesome though. I'm a big fan of not setting up my own infrastructure if I can help it. Lowcode/nocode solutions help us focus on the frontend and our customers faster. I'm all for Firebase, 8base, Hasura, Nhost type solutions

Sanity and Strapi are amazing. Especially with Sanity having their https://sanity.io/create Sanity probably has the faster setup time. Strapi isn't far behind though. Strapi does a great job being an app backend. Custom content types + relationships + ability to do custom things on models by diving into the code. Sanity is amazing for sites like blogs, portfolios, ecommerce. They are both great tools; all depends on what you're trying to build

i understand this well. it took a while for scotch to gain any traffic and even longer until google ranked us higher. look at your most successful articles and see if you can create a niche from those topics. if you're interested in that topic, you can write more on it and position yourself as a leading person in that topic