What I've learned about live streaming
After my first 9 days in a row
Hey, listen!
Yes, I didn’t finish my new app yet.
I continue to livestream the whole process building it.
These are my takes after 9 days non-stop.
It’s all about to start
As I said on the last issue, I started a challenge.
I am live streaming the whole process of building an iOS app.
Completely from scratch, since creating the GitHub repository and starting from my boilerplate, until shipping it to the App Store.
I’ll also stream the process of launching to Product Hunt — even editing the launch video.
We are building Widgets for Stripe, which is basically an app for having your Stripe data in nice and cool widgets on your iOS or macOS home screen.
The first day I was freaking out.
I was super nervous and felt like shit in the beginning.
I was facing several fears:
Coding live scares
Speaking in public scares
I struggle speaking English
I am not used to speak for so long in a daily basis
Feeling super weird speaking alone to a camera in my room
But, I started.
And suffered in the first hours.
And suffered a little bit less the next day.
And suffered even less the third day.
And kinda get used to it on the 4th day.
And so on…
The productivity hack
I discovered one thing.
Once you are connected, on stream, you become a productivity machine.
You are aware that you have eyeballs on everything you do, so you don’t bing on social media and you are full focus on your task.
I’ve never been as focus nor been as productive as I’ve been in the last 9 days.
It is a side effect that I didn’t expect at all.
Lately, I’m having more activity on the chat, so maybe I can get distracted and being talking too much instead of coding.
If this starts to become a problem, I would test the pomodoro technique as Aivars Meijers and Adam Lyttle do on their streams.
Growing your channel for free
I spent 3-4 days planning my first YouTube video, recording it, editing it…
Lot of work, lot of hours…
And it got 1.2k views in 1 month.
While streaming, I am working on my projects and at the same time, growing an audience and growing my channel.
I had three times the views as my first video effortless, and duplicated subscribers as well.
And this is only in Youtube, I also stream to 𝕏 and Twitch at the same time.
So eventually, I am growing three communities.
The virtual coworking space
I also experienced one curious thing.
Lotta folks were saying that they like so much what I am doing.
That they tune in my stream, and they put me on a corner on their screen while they work on their own stuff, and it is like if it was a coworking space, having a colleague.
I’ve never imagined that when I started, but I am feeling as well less alone and more motivated to grind daily — since solopreneurship is quite a solitary job.
I also have a a few folks that never fails a day showing up on the chat, and it is starting to feel kind of a little community.
It is weird, but what started as a thing that panicked me AF, is ending up like a thing that I am enjoying.
It is curious how our brain and fears work.
It is curious what stepping out our comfort zone can unlock.
It is curious.
If have in mind doing this or another thing that scares you, please, do it.
One thing is sure: if you don’t try, you will never know.
See you next week — or on the stream ;)
Juanjo
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