How to post when no one is reading

For a variety of reasons I wanted some notoriety when I was younger. I wanted to be “the guy who’d done that thing”

I became a lot happier with myself when I stopped chasing that and just decided to post the things that I like and the projects I wanted to do. These days I like to think of my website as part of the “old, good internet”: No ads, no demands, just whatever I like and wanted to write.

It’s worth recognizing that that comfort came around/after I was making decent enough money that I wasn’t also trying to figure out a side hustle. It feels to me like “do the things you like” is a luxury of someone who isn’t anxious about paying all their bills.

I most write without publishing, and while it does give me a nagging feeling that I ought to be doing that, it's underrated how useful it can be to think through a problem and validate your own thoughts.

I believe that smartphones are occupying a huge portion of the time people used to spend just thinking, and the nature of work/modern living has us out of the habit of doing lots of "meditative" tasks that used to be much more common. I almost never hear anybody suggest spending more time thinking over something but constantly hear advice along the lines of "talk to more people" or "see what other people are doing/did and figure out how you can do that". A lot of what we do think we "think" comes from the increasingly large time we spend consuming hyper-targeted media optimizng for watch-time, or conversing within our social tribe.

When I sat and wrote this post, I was able to think about this stuff for 10 entirely uninterrupted minutes without anything else competing for my attention. It sounds like nothing, but how often do we actually occupy ourselves purely with our own thoughts without either being interrupted or reaching for our phones out of habit?

The only other ways I'm able to sustain that kind of focused thought are by taking walks and programming very late at night. But the extent to which I as a person differ in personality or ideas from an average of my peers is almost entirely from those moments.

Recently, I reached a personal milestone: completing 200 content pages on my website. [1] I wasn't really keeping track, but yesterday, I noticed I had published 200 pages on my website. It just quietly happened over the years. Only took 24 years!

By content pages, I mean stuff like blog posts, articles, notes, tools, web games, geek art, etc. (not stuff like index pages, tag list pages, and so on). I mostly write for myself. I do often share my posts on HN and sometimes they get some attention, but most of the time, they do not.

All these pages (posts, tools, games, etc.) serve as a personal record of my journey through various technical interests, from the early days of solving mathematical puzzles and writing assembly programs in MS-DOS with DEBUG.EXE, to my current study of algebraic structures and the quirks of Python programming.

Each page is like a snapshot of a phase of my life. Sometimes, I browse my own website just to enjoy the journey it has captured and to remind myself of the things I've learnt over the years.

[1] https://susam.net/pages.html

There's a weird 'blogging is good' mentality around here but the truth is writing a decent blog post takes a lot of time and gives very little return.

Highlighting people who unexpectedly rose to fame is no use, thats just survivor bias, for every Mike Posner there's millions of musicians who spend years trying to make it with no success.

'Write content for your future fans' is also survivor bias advice. In the attention economy most blogs will just be ignored forever.

So here's my advice: Its ok to give up. I think 'never give up' is terrible advice. People can waste years of their lives due to 'never give up'. There is wisdom in knowing when to give up and spend your time on something else. For most people, blogging is a waste of time and they'd be better off going for a nice walk.

I think there is a new nuance on "no one is reading", where _actually_ no one will be reading and only chatgpt will read your work and spit out few tokens to its user.

Now there is a chance of us actually reaching your blog/video etc, like right now on hackernews. Sometimes we will like it or not, sometimes people will share it. Now google and bing prioritize scraping it because it is linked from here, it will be indexed fairly quickly, and chagpt will be able to find it.

Soon, when every open platform is just tokens and everything is generated, we will probably move to gated communities and directories, and it will be very difficult for the chatgpt to discover your content.

And even it can actually find it, I am not sure you want everything you create to be seen through the lens of a language model.

It is sad and interesting that the thousands (millions?) of blogs with few/zero readers will ultimately end up as a dot inside an LLM. Serving a wide audience just not in the original form, and without success/credit for the original author.

Exactly what I want to read on Monday mornings: it describes and confirms my experience from different areas of life, whether it's coding, yoga or DJing; your life is for you and it's supposed to be fun. Then it's original and, with a bit of luck, others will enjoy the things you do too. However, if you do everything just to please others, then you are enslaving yourself to them, copying things that already exist and your originality is gone. My humble opinion...

The best advice as others mentioned and the one that hits closest to home, is to write for yourself. Do it for the love of the craft, not for the clicks or metrics. The rest may follow, or it may not, but either way, it’s worth it.

I’m just starting as a blogger and recently wrote about how creativity can feel like a curse, the kind that won’t let you rest until you get the words out. If you’re thinking of pursuing a creative path (or any passion, really), I have one simple word for you:

Start.

Writing (and especially posting it) needs to be promoted more. I run a small community and I tell them time and time again, writing is not to attract fame, it is to get better at what you do - and having a log of it.

I think as you grow, in career, or in general, folks who get writing always do better than who don't give all things equal.

Keep posting!

I think this is great advice and something I have to keep re-learning over and over.

I have the same problem with programming side projects. Almost every personal project of mine that failed was because I tried to make it "scalable" or solve silly problems (like potential abuse) before I had even 1 customer (myself).

Similarly I can get very hamstrung when I start writing a blog post then get caught up in how it will be received, how I can make it more interesting for others, what if I'm wrong, etc. Not that those things aren't important, they are, but I get hung up on that way too early in the process. The number of blog post drafts that are 2-3 paragraphs long before I gave up because I was swamped with trying to make it "perfect" is high.

I know I'm not a great writer, and that's not really my goal, but I'll never get better without practice and that include publishing.

I know how many of my projects and blog post never saw the light of day because I was too scared to show off what I had done, I'm sure there are many other people out there in the same boat. It's sad to think of how many great ideas or projects exist on a single hard drive (or maybe in a private repo) all because someone is scared to put it out into the world.

The most important letters and messages I have written in my life have never been sent.

A important thing to realize about writing (especially given the current technological advances) is:

Writing is more than just the production of text for other peoples consumption. Writing is an excellent tool to structure thoughts and feelings. Writing isn't just you formulating messages with intent, it is also the text radiating back at you while you write.

LLMs are great to lift the burden of writing bullshit texts or as a (hopefully critical) sparring partner, but we need to realize that a lot of the value of writing is that we structure our thoughts and feelings through it and letting someone else do it takes something from us.

There’s something strangely liberating about writing when no one’s watching. No pressure to perform, no expectations to meet, just you, your thoughts, and the page. And yet, I won’t lie, having a reader, even just one, feels like sunlight breaking through fog. You don’t need it to keep walking, but it sure makes the path warmer.

I think I’m learning to live in that space, to write for the freedom of it, while still holding space for the hope that one day someone will stumble across the words and feel a flicker of recognition. Until then, it’s just me, showing up. And I’m learning to be okay with that.

Thanks for putting language to a season so many of us quietly live through.

I used to follow dozens of blogs back when most sites supported RSS.

I love reading thoughtfully crafted content, but I don't want my inbox filled with email alerts, and I don't have time to check every blog's website to see if they've posted anything recently.

Will RSS ever make a comeback? :(

The toughest pill to swallow in our engagement-addicted web culture is this: there is no correlation at all between the quality of the content someone produces, and the amount of people who engage with it. Likes and followers tell you how many people engage with some material. They don't tell you if that material is any good.

Easy. Think of it as a diary. I wish I wrote about stuff more often, I imagine it'd be the same feeling as coming across old photos or things I wrote (when I used to write) like 10 years ago. It's an awesome feeling, like rediscovering your old self, comparing & contrasting to today. I definitely feel that over the years, we lose memories and other bits of ourselves that we can bring back this way.

No one reads most of my stuff.

That's OK. Writing it, helps me to focus my thinking.

Publishing my work as ship-Quality open source (even when not necessary), helps me to ensure that all my work is top-Quality.

> We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.

- Inaccurately attributed to Aristotle.

Having early success is daunting (what if I never reach that level again?!) but can also be liberating.

There's an interview with Matt Damon where he discusses how winning an Oscar at such a young age freed him. He was no longer chasing that (probably unobtainable) goal and could focus on doing what he wanted.

Beautiful. It’s what I’ve been telling myself as well, and it’s gotten to the point where I like what I do so much that I feel bad for the people who never bother to give me a shot. Not just for posting, but for community building and stuff too. I think that goes a long way.

When I was at my lowest, I got a message from a 14 year old guy who I’m 90% sure was an FBI agent with access to my search history. They said they really liked my posts, and that one little message gave me so much life.

If it's not tied to your income, I agree. But I can't imagine the stress when your readership numbers determine whether there's food on the table or not.

I love the sentence "After 10 years of hard work, it was an overnight success". The great paradox of spending years working without an audience/product market fit and suddenly an overnight success. So it's very true that since you will be ignored for a long time, you can only build something that you love even with no-audience. Ikigai is also a complementary concept to this.

This article seems like it's telling you to keep writing even though nobody is reading right now, because some day they might, and you've got to be ready for that day. I think writing is worth doing for its own sake, or not at all. The economics of writing these days are such that I would never tell someone to keep doing it with the hope that one day it will pay off. Instead, write because you have to say something, or because you need to exercise your critical thinking, researching, planning, or just your follow-through, but not because you think you might get rich and famous for it.

I've maintained a blog semi-consistently for a few years and most articles go unnoticed. The ones that seem "worth the effort" regardless of readership years later are sincere documentation of things I'm interested in or projects I've invested significant time into. For these the audience of my future self and if I'm lucky my descendants seems like enough.

The articles I regret writing or that feel like a waste are any that seem insincere/designed for one-sided promotion of something. Which I've (mostly) kept off of my own site. Running a blog just for the purpose of driving more traffic or engagement I think would sap all the joy out of it completely.

It's interesting how these articles/posts about how being authentic and building for yourself regardless of outcome is meaningful, generally use examples of people who have already achieved success (defined in terms of popularity, money, views). In this case Mike Posner is still a very successful artist despite the unevenness of his career. The median experience is that there is no "success", but you wouldn't know with how often the opposite case is showcased.

I do agree with the OP, in that one should write for one-self for the numerous beneficial reasons such as self-improvement, fun, archiving. However, I think his example has some conflicts with his message.

I heard or read somewhere, “Write for yourself but like writing to a stranger future of you. Your future self is likely to forget what you know now.” Once you start feeling comfortable writing for yourself, and for the future you, things begin to become fun.

I used to really burn out before I ever got any traction. Basing motivation on any external reward is just too hard, too much of the time.

I work now on multiple business projects that interest me. Short term my paying clients, medium term tools I build for myself and clients that I can also sell, long term hobby that might turn into something (adretro.com is my fun).

Before the VC carnival money era, this is probably the default way to build.

Publishing early work feels pointless until you look back and realise the later stuff couldn't exist without it. Same goes for any expressive work. Sounds like a platitude, but it really is all about the process.

I feel a little stupid (or naive, maybe) each time I read one of these types of posts, because I've always just taken for granted that people don't need convincing to write if they feel like it. And if they don't feel like it or don't think it brings value to them, it's really not that deep - maybe they simply shouldn't force themselves to do it. Then I pause and realize we need instructional blog posts on how to "persevere" or explainers on why writing is valuable even without an external audience.

I find this especially difficult on X, where almost no one sees my posts. Especially when I compare it to LinkedIn or Reddit, where it’s not that hard to reach thousands or even tens of thousands of views.

It's just impossible to get your content out there at the moment. 10 years ago, you would just post on twitter or reddit, and people would catch it. Now, twitter and bluesky are wastelands, and Reddit works if you're in the right subreddit (I say that as my main read/post subreddit just went private this morning without warning).

There are also blogroll communities, but I don't think they are all that popular (if they even let you in).

I heard getting on mailing lists works, but I have no way to even know how you get to that stage.

My take away from this is that you wanna keep posting your work regardless. It’s not when you “blow” that you wanna start doing that. Enjoyed the Mike Posner reference. As a big fan of James Blunt, JB talks about this in some of his posts . His fans know “You are beautiful” is not even one of his top 5 works. Thanks for posting . Enjoyed it

Creating when no one’s watching can feel incredibly free. But I totally understand the pressure. When rent is due and people keep asking, “So, can you make a living from that?”, it’s easy to feel like that freedom is slipping away. To me, the ideal is having a small space that’s just for you. Somewhere you can make things without expecting it to pay your bills or win attention. That’s the kind of space where creativity can breathe. Of course, some people do turn their passions into full time work and even build amazing careers. But before that happens, there’s often a long stretch of uncertainty. It’s not easy to keep going. Most people won’t. The ones who stay are usually those who can protect a quiet flame inside, even when no one’s looking.

Very relatable, and I agree to some extent. At least part of the things you're pursuing should be fun to you, because if they're not, why even bother?

I've been stuck in this mindset that I need to find a niche people care about, a problem people have, but none of this is gonna get any results (most likely), if you're not passionate about the topic.

So just do what interests you, what you find cool, and the world will adapt.

I've been maintaining my tiny corner[^1] of the internet for around six years and the lack of readers never bothered me that much; nor did the influx of LLMs. I write when I feel like it, when I have something to say, or when I think it's something my past self would read. Sure, there have been times when some of the articles hit the front page of Hacker News but most of what I write gets little attention and that's perfectly okay.

Some of my least favourite write-ups on my blog have thousands of views, and conversely many of my most favourite ones rarely got any. Chasing views and writing stuff that has any substance beyond HN rage bait are completely two different things.

[^1]: https://rednafi.com

every sentence you write is first and foremost for yourself. it helps you to tidy up and sharpen your thoughts.

every hour you write for others could have been spent reading, or practicing your art. Are you balancing that time wisely?

something should also be said about the quality of content that is published for the sake of gaining followers vs the quality of content that is intended for yourself.

also keep in mind that every page you publish competes with the existing canon that your readers could have spent their time on instead.

also: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/schopenhauer-parerg...

I've written things before that no one really read, but I still felt they were worth putting out there. Sometimes the only reason I hit publish is because it means something to me. Even if I'm the only one who reads it, that's enough.

The imbalance between content and consumers on the internet is huge and just getting larger with AI. My advice having just started creative writing: Don't publish on the internet. Share with family, friends and colleagues if you want. Heck, even share with an LLM. But, if even a small part of why you create is for internet points with random strangers, then you're not going to get as much meaning out of it and you'll end up disappointed (even when you do get some internet points).

I just write up stuff I've done or have been working in. I try to do it in a clear manner so that others may learn something from it if they are unfamiliar with whatever it is I'm up to. And I hope that people who do know a bit about what I'm writing will make suggestions.

My latest post is exactly that: https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/it-was-time-for-dim-bulb-curren... It's very niche, wasn't written up for SEO or whatever, and is just something I'm working on.

Good post! I also post about things I enjoy. I dislike the idea that every online content is made as part of a competition with the only goal of getting bigger numbers, online content and social interaction (/social media) don't have to be a competition.

Nonetheless, getting zero views is definitely demotivating. But by keeping at it, you will learn what can increase this number, and also what increases this number in a way that you care about.

I found it immensely joyful to share and talk about content I had made with friends, or bringing it to them when relevant. So don't overfocus on how many people see it, but rather who.

I've had a self-hosted blog with slice of life pictures, for almost 20 years. Its my own little corner of the internet, not beholden to any social app or company. Something to look through when i'am 80.

Are words shouted into the void a "book"? If you rip the literary system apart and keep a single malicious reader, a machine, that extracts your knowledge and runs with it, can you still call your work an essay, a novel or a book?

I have a scattershot blog with infrequent posts and random projects. While I enjoy attention I have found that chasing views is a losing game. Now my goal is to write the posts I would like to see.

One trick I have found to maintain focus is to not announce that you are going to write a particular thing. Somehow publicizing a forthcoming work means that I am less likely to actually complete it.

I think the best thing I realised was to post what and when I want, with little expectations regarding the number of readers. This way I produce the best content and any reader who does stumble across the posts will get the best read. I suppose my content is sort of nice too, so if I focused on readers my content would inevitably stray from what it is at the moment (sucking the joy out of it for me along the way)

I recently had to make a multilingual profanity list for my vocabulary testing app. It’s honestly a really hairy problem as there aren’t many good lists out there and they tend to vary wildly in what is considered offensive.

I have been wanting to make life more interesting by trying new things in side project time and am trying to make blogging them a habit. Most likely less than a handful of people will read it, but it can't hurt. Always good to have links of previous work to refer back to.

Hey, that's me! I'm long past caring now and have no intention of stopping. Honestly, having no audience expectations is nice. There's no pressure to deliver anything, and I can take breaks without worrying my followers will abandon me.

> How do you keep hitting that publish button, over and over again, knowing there’s no one on the other side?

> I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure it out.

Realistically, by just writing something and hitting the publish button.

There are things I do to put food on the table, where reputation matters, at least within the org (e.g. "that person who shipped code that works and is maintainable" vs "that person who keeps shipping code that breaks prod"), where things often take a lot of time, effort and planning, and where I expect a specific payoff.

Everything else I do in my free time is not that. If I want to do silly things like write a blog post about how Docker is supposed to lead to mostly reproducible builds but sometimes defies reason and how Spring DI is evil, or maybe a blog post about how the Windows bootloader is actually pretty swanky despite me doing some rocket surgery on my drives, or maybe a blog post about how a dual GPU setup is almost good but not quite and how we can't have nice things despite offloading things to a dedicated device being the rational thing to do, then I can do that.

It doesn't even matter if I have all of the details down correctly, whether there is a lot of polish in the thing I'm making, or if anyone bothers to read or interact with it. All of that is ego stuff. Chasing after that validation and obsessing over the details will only give you writer's block or keep worrying about things that matter less than you'd think in the grand scheme of things.

It's not about building a brand, it's not about revenue, it's not about reputation, I write because I feel like it and sometimes even to "rebel" against the status quo because sharing my experiences and my own lived truth feels good in of itself. Furthermore, if they ever become relevant, I can reference my findings with a link. A bit like writing a diary would be like, but in a more public setting.

TikTok and Substack showed that the problem is not lack of quality content creators but that the problem is lack of good discovery engines. Google is probably the first internet company that fell victim to the enshittification; once they started prioritizing commercial content and commercial websites the game was over for indie content creators. We need better internet platforms for discovery of content creators and their content.

I think the original title—"Thrive in obscurity"—better articulates the purpose of the essay than the current HN title. For me, the former is a much deeper message than just posting.

I wrote a blog post today which according to stats was read by 1 person so far. I consider this a positive outcome. Seriously.

The article dogmatically assumes that you need to do it at all. No explanation of why.

"If you don't have to write, don't write."

> Look at Van Gogh - an incredible artist who died unappreciated & broke, in a mental asylum. All of his fame came after his death.

I'm not sure this sounds attractive to most people.

I get just as many likes from spam bots than real people and it makes me wonder how the numbers would be skewed if the AI-scrapers dropped a like when they absorbed my content.

I agree! the moment i switched my narrative to do it for myself building and writing content gives me more joy and fulfillment

I'm not writing, I'm building and this post and these comments is exactly what I needed to read this morning.

My efforts go almost entirely unseen. Despite having some exclusively relevant material on specific subjects, the search engines will often provide a million or so completely unrelated results before including mine.

Whether seen this year or the next, or only ones past, I consider it documentation. And perhaps no one will ever see it directly. But the LLMs will (and already) have integrated all the bits into their strange brain. That it's there, seen or unseen, and free of spam, is what the internet is to me.

Perhaps some day it will all come together again (or for the first time by self determination) with the greed and slop having withered away, yielding a public domain where people no longer litter and shit in the digital halls of collective knowledge.

It's definitely worth the effort.

Thrive in obscurity is much better title that current one

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I'm thinking about starting a blog. I often write detailed comments, but they are often limited because I can't add many images, or just the number of characters is limited, I can't add graphics.

I mean, I'm already generating some content, but it's drowning somewhere in the comments. And then I can't find what I wrote myself.

I prefer to use it as my own library, but share some research with others.

Most (though maybe not all) tech sites will publish a post about the release of the next motherboard and so on 20 times a day, but there will be no news about, for example, PCIe 7.0 and Molex, and if there is such a post, it will be just dry, here is the release and that's it. All the additional information is about it and why it will be useful to incite the audience to expectations, and possibly wishes for potential use. Even on the relevant branches or subreddits where it would be useful, no one even mentions it.

Everything is aimed at a quick release, getting paid for the publication, and that's it.

The further I go, the more I look for small blocks and re-read them once a month.

How much news did you see about another motherboard or GPU with a modified bezel and how much news was there about the development of microled (with its many applications). And in the last two years, something new and interesting has been happening in the microled field.

But where are the tech sites before this... it is better to consider another QHD OLED screen, which is not far from FHD. It's just the same old, same old every day, week, month.

No one is reading until someone is... I published both Computer Graphics from Scratch[0] and the Fast-Paced Multiplayer series[1] for no concrete reason, they went unnoticed for a long time, and then both led to things I couldn't have planned.

I've also published stuff that gets little attention and leads nowhere, like Emulator-Backed Remakes[2] or ZX Spectrum Raytracer[3], and I'm totally fine with that. I make these things primarily for my own amusement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't know how many people visit my website. I have analytics, but I rarely check them.

[0] https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch

[1] https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture....

[2] https://gabrielgambetta.com/remakes.html

[3] https://gabrielgambetta.com/zx-raytracer.html

Is posting when no one is reading different from writing and not posting?

Well, all this sounds inspiring, motivational, puristic or platonic etc. But the reality hits. You are connected to the world around you. That means you need to make deals with it, interact with it, please it etc. The feedback (or the lack of it) from the world does affect you. If you don't care about the feedback, then there is no point in posting. Sing it in your shower. So you really expect some future fame. In more likelihood, it may not come. Does it affect you? I know, you have some belief that it will come. But is that belief rational and practical? Does it justify the investment you make right now?

Face it. Blogging, or for that matter any online creative content, is becoming extremely low-rewarding effort. First, no one pays for content any more. Next, they don't even have time to clap, or grasp the quality. And then, there is this AI slop.

About 30 years back, I spent days on an abstract art, perfecting it's shading using only an ink pen. It looked a bit geometric. When I showed it to my college hostel mates, they could not believe it was hand-made. Some of them claimed that they know the instruments which can be used to make it, and dismissed my entire effort.

I'm more interested in

> How to post when only AI is reading

Songs with 3 listens? [x]

github, youtube posts, for my hobby have small visibility. Doesn't matter. I enjoy the project for fun of creating and building.

This is a beautiful article, really curated! Thanks.

Excellent advice. I find that it even applies to software.

Thank you.

Think of it as a digital index fossil.

I know a lot about this! I've been on Twitter for 18 years, post frequently, and have about 5-10 people who read my posts based on the metrics. (Significantly more followers, but they're all fake/bots/dormant). You're either posting for the love of posting/keeping a journal/getting ideas out of your head, or you're posting like it's going to the gym because you want to be an influencer. Having a searchable 18-year database of my thoughts has been helpful to me on many occasions. I also used the dataset to fine-tune an LLM to shitpost like me. Recreational narcissism!

Been out for a few years but Seth Godin's "The Practice" is a good, easy read in this spirit. tl;dr I think of that book is just get used to showing up and doing stuff. Outcomes are fickle. But developing a love of good process can be enjoyment enough and mentally more stable. And can sometimes lead to some good outcomes.

This really hit home. I’ve wanted to start blogging for a while, but I have dyslexia and often feel like my writing isn’t good enough or that no one would care.

Another problem is I have so many scattered interests, I don’t even know where to start or how to stick to a topic.

How do you decide what’s worth writing about, especially when your brain jumps between ten things a day?

Really appreciate the reminder that chasing what you think will succeed tends to kill both quality and motivation. Creating stuff you genuinely enjoy not only makes the process bearable, it probably makes the output better too.

Great post and a bit ironic that it ends up at the top page of HN...

A comment about the Youtube example:

> This is why YouTubers with millions of followers have hundreds of thousands of views on their first few videos. Those videos didn’t get any views when they were first published. They were revisited after they became famous, by their most loyal fans.

This is a nice example but it depends on the content. If you write an AI blog, readers are probably not going to bother with reading old posts that are no longer relevant. You see it with research papers as well -- if you have an author you follow, you're less likely to read their old stuff. Maybe it's a good idea to write content that don't become stale quickly.

I realized, when reading old journals, that basically every story I told and the vast majority of things I can remember, are things I'd written down in my journal. Similarly, I've also noticed that the subjects I can teach very well or explain very well are things I've blogged about, and the motorcycle routes I can describe from memory are the ones I've published videos on. I'm not sure if this is a sort of chicken/egg situation e.g. the memorable experiences are worth writing down, but I'd have remembered them any way, but in any case it certainly doesn't seem to hurt.

I think I have like 100 subscribers to my youtube, just checked and looks like my blog got 133 visits last week. Oh well.

It's also really nice that I can easily send a video to someone when I'm recommending motorcycle routes, or if someone asks me for the millionth time why I moved to Taiwan or some other question I've answered in my blog, I can give a short and polite answer with a link to a blog post or two if they want to know more.

"if you build it, they will come"

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This is exactly about me. I am just making my absurd.website project for years with zero audience. Now I start to recieve first feedbacks and they (audience) looks at all of your work.

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