Hi Ryan, thanks for your kind words.
Any advice for those looking to start something similar to FCC in the future?
Yes – figure out a specific area where you think you can do better than anyone else with.
For us, it was teaching foundational web development skills.
Andrew Brown (ExamPro.co) has been eating, sleeping, and breathing AWS certifications for the past few years, and it really shows in his in-depth tutorials.
Dhawal Shah has been a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) enthusiast since the beginning (8 years ago), and he has ridden the Gartner hype cycle all the way up, down, and up again. But he's stuck with it. And now online courses are bigger than ever and all his work is paying off.
If you love headless CMS's, go super deep on that. If you love Golang, go really deep on that. Most people broaden their scope too quickly, and all their passion gets dilluted before they can really get a critical mass.