Ask HN: How to get started creating content?

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by shetill • 4 years ago

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I want to start blogging, creating youtube videos and some other type of online presence on tech related topics. However, I don't know how to start and how to baby step my way into it.

I used to be very creative as a teenager and young adult and had many ideas on creating funny videos and game related content, but that died as I grew older and now I feel like I don't have any creativity left, how do I get some of it back?

Are there any online communities around creating content as a beginner that I can learn from?

gadders• 4 years ago

Just start. https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-war-of-art/

brudgers2• 4 years ago

I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, it's a good book and I love books anyway.

On the other hand, going shopping is playing house. It feels like creative work, but isn't creative at all. It's easy. It's comfortable. It's safe from risk of failure.

Shopping doesn't overcome the resistance to making something that will probably suck. It avoids it.

hunglee2• 4 years ago

build in public

if you expose your operational activities - basically assume that everything you are doing is worth 'getting out there' - then you will have no end of content to produce.

the biggest mistake early content creators make is thinking that their output needs to be genius; it really just needs to be output, the market will decide whether it is any good or not, not you

good luck

brudgers2• 4 years ago

You have a phone.

It has a camera.

It has Youtube.

And it is in your hand.

The only thing stopping you is you.

Shopping is easier than making.

Easier because it is safer.

Safer because if the results suck,

it is not your fault.

Safer because it is only money,

and there are refunds.

"Idea" is a four letter word.

"This" is not.

Since you haven't made blogs and videos on tech topics to have an online presence, you probably don't have much love for the idea. Funny videos are probably more who you actually want to be.

Good luck.

sharemywin• 4 years ago

youtube has a ton of stuff on creating content.

1. pick a niche like deep learning, or stable diffusion or what ever your interested in or what to know more about. get a domain name and webhosting. I'm using shared hosting because I can have unlimited domains and a year of hosting for <$100.

2. make folder on your computer for lists of ideas and sub folders for ideas you are starting to work on. also once you create content you can repurpose it and reuse it as well as redo sections of it if its needs be updated.

3. pick topic for an article - google the topic it will kind of show you what articles are making it to the top.

4. do research and create an outline - google, youtube

5. AI tools are great for writers block. They can help with generating ideas, sub topics, even write a draft of a paragraph. you need to seed it with phrases or keywords your trying to write about but it will generate the paragraph. I try to create 3 version from the ai and it will come up with something. Some of the paragraphs were ok(probably better then I could write.)

6. you have to stick to it for a while. I read you need at least 75 articles on a blog to get any traction.

7. then the article will become the basis for your youtube video.

Startup4Life• 4 years ago

Like many of the comments here, just go for it! Pick up your phone, hit record, and talk about whatever you want. Don't worry about engaging content or how many views/comments/likes this will get.

Once you do that initial record, rewatch it and you'll start to get ideas on what to focus on. Maybe you'll dive deeper on one point or you'll decide to create videos that cover an array of related tech topics. Whatever you decide, getting started is important! Good luck!

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