Weekly Review 3

Last week’s main purpose was to try figure out the direction I want to go in starting in 2025. It’s 1st of December again, so it’s high time we start planning certain areas of our lives before we hit January 1st and become those people who try New Year’s resolutions just to end up not doing them a month later. In my case it’s a Youtube channel.

My thought process is this: if I plan what exactly I want to achieve, have a certain schedule, and areas I want to touch up on on my videos, I believe it’s gonna be waaay more straightforward than sitting in front of a camera on January 1st saying hi and figuring it all out on the place. Black Friday also contributed to the timing of my thinking, not gonna lie.

Let me say this, from my research, competition analysis, and niche breakdown I can say hitting 1000 subscribers shouldn’t be a problem at all. The thing is, having a sort of video journal of my dev life isn’t so mainstream and turns out not many people tune in hahaha.

I used Things 3 todo list app, Notion, and Final Cut Pro to rethink the areas I will focus on. Delving into Youtube is a bet in itself - I'm sacrificing my time and turning the attention away from indie dev, but if done right, Youtube could turn out to be a success. I’ve always had something for vlogs—back in 2018 I managed a semi-daily vlog with a close friend of mine, and already in 2017 was doing tutorials from web development. I love video editing, and given the newly developed approach which includes scripting each video I like the format - having a Google Doc, video effects, and all—it’s exciting!

!Latest promo image of Bookie’s 1.15 update that brings revamped stats and insights.

When it comes to my apps, the last 30 days of the year I will spend on creating Year in Books and extending reading challenges for 2025. I have high hopes about it, as last year’s increases in downloads and revenue blew my mind. This time, the snowball has been rolling for a year, so we’ll see how it will go.

See you next week, Kuba