Thank You For 3000 Subscribers!

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Hey folks, I am just driving to our holiday party for our team and I figured I'd just do a quick video because I wanted to say thank you. And the reason I wanted to say thank you is we just passed uh 400 videos uploaded here. Uh so thank you for being here and being part of the code commute journey. Um, I think there were the time I looked today when I was uploading the most recent video was I think 2,999 subscribers, which is cool. Great to see that it channel is growing. Um, you know, there was a point really on early on in Code Kimmy where there was like a bit of an inflection and I was like, "Holy crap, like I think I found something." uh that died like right after, but it's still been really cool. Um because my my main channel is over like 10,000 more subscribers.

And I mean this genuinely like there's a lot of people that keep showing up, you know, to to the videos and leaving comments and stuff. And for me personally, that makes it really enjoyable to make this content. Um, you know, my my main dev leader channel, it's kind of where things started. Um, a lot of it is tutorials, right? I actually split the channel up into multiple different channels to keep that one focused on tutorials, but tutorials aren't what I want to, you know, that's not kind of the mark I want to leave. I'm happy to make tutorials. It's good for me to to practice things and teach things. So, like lots of benefits to it. So, uh, not like I have a problem doing it, but I I just don't want that to be like the thing that I do. And, uh, I appreciate all of you being here to give me this opportunity to kind of just like chat through stuff from, uh, from my career, my experience.

Right. It's, uh, it's great when new people show up. I love when people have questions. Uh, it's great when the returning people show up. Um, yeah, there there's lots of you and it it does mean a lot to me. So, it's uh it's interesting, right? Like for me, I make I make a lot of content. Obviously, if you're watching Code Commute, then you know that I try to put up like basically a video every day of the week except the weekends. I take a little bit of a break. Um but I I make content for like, you know, my main channel, uh post for social media and stuff. So, I'm always trying to make content and that kind of thing can be tiring, like really tiring because you put the time in and sometimes like you spend time and effort and like it it kind of feels like there's no there's no return on it and that's just not how content works, right?

You don't just uh I'm not the Kardashians. I'm not posting something, getting paid a million dollars for a post, and then being likeoo like like that was worth it. Um, no, in fact, it's quite the opposite. It cost me money to make my videos. Um, there's no direct payout or anything like that from from posting videos. And it might be days, weeks, months before, you know, I post something and someone's like, "Hey, thanks so much. That helped." And that's all it takes, right? It's like periodically getting people to say thank you. Uh because then I'm reminded like, okay, cool. This did help someone. It's worth doing. And um and it means a lot to me. So these these videos when I do code committee videos are are genuinely like um they're enjoyable to make. A lot of other content, it's not that I like hate doing it.

I don't want to say I don't enjoy it, but sometimes to go prep for it, I'm like I have to come up with the ideas. I have to go, you know, write code, unwrite it so I can make a tutorial. I have to make sure it's going to work. I have to make sure I can get the steps right. Um, code commute for me is low effort, which is that's super nice, but it's also on topics that I really give a about. And I'm hoping it's the kind of stuff that is more meaningful than like a tutorial, right? So, it's just uh my opportunity to try and share perspective on things. And uh I think if you're if you're new here, you might not know this. If you've, you know, been around for a while, you probably already do. But, uh my goal is not to tell you like this is this is how things need to be done or there's only one right way.

That's like one of my my core philosophies is like I just don't I never want to try and represent something like that. I I just simply want to share like here's been my experience, good or bad, right? Here's what I've been through and uh if there's like kind of lessons that you can take from that, awesome. And that could literally mean like, hey, this old bald guy on the internet is telling me things that I really don't agree with and like I'm not going to listen to him. That's totally cool. I'm I just appreciate that you took the time to like at least listen to a different perspective. If that helps reinforce yours, that's totally fine, but uh you know, not not my goal to like change all of your minds or something like that. So, uh thank you for continuing to show up. I hope to keep doing this.

I don't know when the end is. Uh maybe maybe when there's a Lamborghini, you know, I think we're a little bit of ways off from that. I think I think the channel makes about $15 a month, which is stellar because that's still nowhere close to covering the fast lane. So, we're getting there. Um, we're getting there. But no, in all seriousness, I I do appreciate you all being here. This video is just a thank you. So, no no fun crazy extra topics. And I look forward to your comments, questions, and stuff in the next videos. So again, if you're new, leave comments in any video you want. Ask questions about what you want answered. I am happy to go make a video for you. I'll try my best to answer. Uh I don't care if I've answered it before. Sometimes I'll let people know, hey, if you search for this on my channel, you'll probably find it, but I'll make you a dedicated one.

Um so happy to do that. And uh if you're too like uncomfortable sending a comment because it's public, you can go to codecommute.com. You can send things in anonymously, it's it it's an email to myself. So I literally do not know who you are. Uh unless you specify on the site that you want to submit that, which is fine. Uh and then alternatively, if you're like, I don't trust this guy. You know, he's probably one of those sneaky programmers that's trying to track us when we submit things like no worries. Uh send a message on uh social media if you want. Pick uh any platform. Look for dev leader. It's Nick Cosantino on LinkedIn. Send me a message. Uh the more detail you provide, the you know the the more specific I get into my answers. I try to remind people generic questions unfortunately get generic answers.

Doesn't mean that it's not worth talking about. It just might mean that like you don't find it as helpful for your specific situation. So if you're comfortable, share more details and that helps me answer. So thanks again folks. I am looking forward to more time with all of you. So take care.