My latest video is about NoMachine.
A remote-desktop client server that works with Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Between any of them, and you can access any of them with your iPhone or Android.
This video has "blown up" for me on Youtube.
The official NoMachine account commented, and thanked me for the video.
I've never had a video get OVER NINE THOUSAND!!! views in 3 days before, and none of my videos have ever gotten hundreds of up-votes either.
So I want to thank you if you've watched, liked, shared, or left a comment on any of my posts or videos.
I've been doing videos for years now, and it took me forever to reach 1,000 followers on Youtube.
It's often felt like I was doing so much work for nothing, and I still might be. But I have a bunch of videos now with thousands of views, and that made me feel a little better about all of the work.
It's hard to tell what makes a video good or bad.
Some of the easiest to make were well-received, and some of the hardest to make barely got any views at all.
I definitely didn't think NoMachine would be a popular video though.
My last two videos got less than 400 views between them both, but the two before those got a couple thousand within a month or so.
Some videos don't get many views at first, and then a few months later they'll suddenly start getting traffic.
I try to put out at least one video a month, and sometimes I don't even make that deadline.
Over the past 5 months or so I've been working on a "big" video that's different from the usual.
It's a documentary about why the first Playstation changed video-gaming forever. I don't think I've ever done so much work on a single video before, and I'm very excited about it.
While I've been putting so much time into the Playstation video I still need to put out a new video each month. So for a week or two I put the documentary aside, and work on an "easy" video.
But even the easy videos are a lot of work, but I start them thinking they'll be easy.(Hahahah, such is life I guess).
I started the NoMachine video about 2 weeks ago.
I don't always get a ton of engagement here on Hive/Peakd, and it's been even less lately. I don't really have a community here, but I try to get involved with other people sometimes.
But thank you for all of you who have engaged with me, I appreciate that.
And I just want to say for anyone else who is making videos or content:
Keep going, keep working, and try to make it better.
My early videos seem terrible to me now, and sometimes I'd get criticism from people that was just mean-spirited.
Other times it was genuine criticism, and I'd still take it personally.
It can be hard to know the difference, but if you hear it more than once it's probably constructive if you take it into consideration.
Show it to your friends or family if you can, and ask them to be really honest about it.
Don't let perfection be the enemy of good: I think this means to TRY to make it as perfect as possible, but also realize when it's good enough.
Try to be consistent, it's a big deal in everything.
I do a video each month because that's a realistic deadline that I can meet, usually.
Also, try to make it as short as you can.
People'e time and attention are precious, and if they give you 3 minutes of their day that's an achievement.
Anyways, I hope someone reads this appreciates it.
Life can be hard, and it can feel impossible sometimes.
You might see people who look like they have it all figured out, but remember that we only show people our favorite shots.
You never know what life is like for anyone.
Thanks for reading, God bless!
Jay @ds-tech