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Bob
@2xconversions · Self-employed
Hiya Patrick!
I'm good at explaining technical stuff and I really like the vue.js programming language. So I'm considering doing the "blog > email list > ebook" journey that you often talk about on HN.
But I have a few questions about this project:
- How can I know in advance that people might be interested in new vue JS tutorials? The official documentation is already great...
- Is a blog about "Learn Vue.js" enough, or should I try to find a more specific niche?
- Where would you market such a blog, besides HN and Reddit?
Thanks!
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Patrick McKenzie
@patio11 · I work on Atlas at Stripe
@2xconversions No official documentation anywhere is as good as people need it to be. Where are the gaps in it relative to things people actually care about, such as shipping meaningful projects at work? Fill those gaps. Knowing nothing about vue.js (if you just conjured it on the spot, good on you), I assert that there is probably almost nothing in the official documentation about bridging the gap between your first Getting Started project and then actually using it to do Meaningful Work In Production. I'd start there, again knowing nothing else about the project.
Since I know nothing about Vue.js, and I consider myself at least fairly tech-literate, I think that scoping yourself down to that community is probably already specific enough for a niche. ("Learn Javascript" is probably not.)
In some future after you have success, you might successfully create new Vue.js users. In the short-term, you will not; the project attracts the users to itself and you educate them. Accordingly, you'll want to try hitching a ride to the ecosystem which already exists where people consume Vue.js-related things; that might be official community spaces, well-known tech watering holes like HN/Reddit, or even "The Google SERPs for [vue.js react]" (or what have you -- I'm very not conversant about the cutting edge of JS development in 2017).
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