The Power of Showing Up Daily

In December 2024, I tried something different and it taught me a lot. The biggest lesson was that just showing up is enough to get started

What happened? On December 3rd, I started live streaming my coding sessions on YouTube. My audience when I started was a big fat ZERO, I had 198 followers on twitter and pretty much none on YouTube.

At first, it felt very uncomfortable showing my unpolished work. Would people judge me? Call me names? The internet can be cruel. But after 15 streams of building my Svelte 5 boilerplate svelteappfast.com in public, I learned something crucial:

Consistency matters much more than perfection

Each stream resonated with people in some way who face similar challenges as I did. No negative feedback came, quite the opposite. People were helpful and the fears were unfounded.

And on top, I had some small wins:

• SvelteAppFast made its first sales during the heavily discounted pre-launch

• YouTube subscribers grew steadily and consistently to 44 subscribers

Nothing feels better than having validation like that, gaining subscribers and sales!

Here's to building in public

• embracing imperfection

• learning together

• just doing it

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Cheers Jogi

P.S. I am trying to find the ideal price point is for SvelteAppFast with an experiment of dynamically pricing the product. Prices go up $10 with every 5 copies sold starting from $7. I want to know how conversions are affected by that and will cover the lessons learned in another newsletter when I have enough data.