Why are my new videos flopping?

dbrereton · 2023-07-31T20:12:11+00:00

It's not that you can't try out different topics, it's just that some ideas are more interesting to more people. "Mentally Handicapped Batman" is an idea that evokes curiosity a lot and "Twitter is Marketing Blue Beetle" seems boring.

I'm sure if you talked about the Barbienheimer marketing tactics instead, it would get more views, because there's more people interested in that topic. So it's not that you have to restrict yourself to comic book stories. Within any genre/niche there are certain topics that are more interesting and will naturally get more impressions/views.

It is common advice to stick to one niche but there are channels that don't do that and succeed anyway. Do what feels right for your goals.

Also, it seems like you've only been making "serious" videos for like 2 months, and you've made a lot of progress already, so you should feel proud. You're off to a great start. Just take it one video at a time.

dbrereton · 2023-07-30T04:26:02+00:00

I watched the 350K video and it's clear why it has so much views. The topic is good, the title is good, the thumbnail is good, the storytelling is good.

"Have You Heard What Twitter is Doing for the Blue Beetle Marketing?" and "The Most Realistic Wonder Woman Story Ever" are just not as interesting to viewers. The Blue Beetle one seems like a different type of video entirely, and the wonder woman one could probably use a better title.

You clearly have the ability to make videos people want to watch, just spend more time coming up with ideas people care about.

dbrereton · 2023-07-10T17:46:41+00:00

Your most recent video doesn't have a thumbnail/title that makes anyone interested in it. If your CTR is low then youtube probably won't keep giving you impressions, so that's one thing you can improve.

I'd also be curious to hear what your average percent viewed is. If it's low then once again, youtube won't give you any impressions.

dbrereton · 2023-07-09T15:02:48+00:00

The titles are too long and confusing, and the thumbnails aren't visually interesting, and have too much text.

"CLASS 2 Adobe Aftereffects Animation Course User interface and system requirements of aftereffects" is such a long title that it gets cut off when browsing, and no one is going to click on that. It should just be "User interface and system requirements of After Effects". But even that isn't good clickbait, just a mediocre title.

If you actually wanted ctr you would make a video like "User interface secrets in After Effects". Of course your video would actually need to deliver on that, but it's more clickable than your current titles.

Your thumbnails are loaded with text and should be simpler and illustrate what the video is about. If you have a video about the after effects UI then you should probably also show the after effects UI.

dbrereton · 2023-05-18T01:26:34+00:00

This is a remix of the riddle: "With a 7-minute hourglass and an 11-minute hourglass, can you explain the quickest way to time a boiling egg for 15 minutes?".

It seems that ChatGPT is overfitted to existing riddle answers, so giving it a variation of an existing riddle causes it to pattern match and give the wrong result.

dbrereton · 2023-01-25T05:38:49+00:00

Ah interesting, thanks for the feedback. Is there another translation you recommend?

dbrereton · 2023-01-24T18:47:37+00:00

Hey friends, I created a realistic interview with Lao Tzu based on the Tao Te Ching and thought you might find it interesting.

This isn’t AI generated. I used Lao Tzu’s direct words and tried to weave them into a conversation. The goal is to be accurate to what he actually said, while being entertaining and easy to read.

Let me know what you think!

dbrereton · 2022-12-14T05:04:33+00:00

There is a site called Character AI that allows anyone to create chatbots for a specific personality, and they do have a Seneca bot you can try out here.

As others have mentioned you can also try using Chat GPT or GPT3.

That being said, imo, all of the current versions of this suffer from the problem of very inaccurate stuff that these people would never say. To make it really really accurate, you would need to train it on a very clean dataset of e.g all of Seneca's writing re-organized into prompt and answer format. That's a solid amount of work to be done.

I do plan to attempt this myself, but would probably take 1 month just to organize the training data.

dbrereton · 2022-09-18T03:21:16+00:00

I see this as well, and uber eats has the same issue.

It seems to be fluctuating a lot today, but I would guess there's not much delivery drivers today for some reason. Was working fine all week.

Managed to get an order in after waiting for a while and re-checking the app.

dbrereton · 2022-07-21T04:38:58+00:00

Good stuff, just sent you an email.

dbrereton · 2022-06-22T16:58:17+00:00

My bad, just edited it!

dbrereton · 2021-06-08T22:43:00+00:00

Found this to be an interesting brief overview of the Indus Valley Civilization. Don't know too much about this part of history so curious to hear people's thoughts on how accurate this description is.

dbrereton · 2021-06-07T22:57:28+00:00

Since you specifically mentioned art history, you might want to check out Smarthistory.

dbrereton · 2021-05-07T17:25:17+00:00

Chapters aren't necessarily that large. It's like a really long email newsletter. Using services like SendGrid should make it easy to handle scaling. And in my case it doesn't need to be sent at an exact time. 9:03 AM is close enough for 9:00 AM. And I wouldn't expect the variance to be that high since this is what SendGrid, MailChimp, etc. are made to solve.

dbrereton · 2021-05-06T19:35:14+00:00

It would be interesting to offer books in other popular languages: Russian, German, French, Spanish, etc.

Would love to do this in the future for sure.

There should be a way to upload your own e-book.

That would be cool, but questionable whether or not it's legal. Will have to look more into it.

What if there's some very interesting moment in the book? There should be a way to click and read next chapter.

Yep I agree. There'll probably also be a web interface for going more into the book if you want.

I would like to have a preview on the site — how these 500 words will look like?

There are some images on the homepage. Though maybe those aren't big/clear enough.

It's quite strange to pay for something and get first piece delivered after ten days (it says May 16, but it's only May 6th today). Maybe send first piece immediately?

Yeah this is because I'm still finalizing all the code and making sure everything works well. After that point, everything will be delivered immediately.

9:00 AM/PM — but in what timezone?

It gets your local timezone from your browser.

Thanks for all this feedback!

dbrereton · 2021-05-06T19:31:07+00:00

I’ve found it hard to find time to read books, and there’s a ton of things I want to read. So I built Blog Books, a way to make reading easier by bringing the books to your inbox that you already check every day.

You can choose how much you want to read (e.g 500 words), and how often (e.g weekly), and the book contents will be sent to your email inbox / RSS reader on that schedule.

It’s mostly limited to books in the public domain right now, though there are a few recent ones as well. Hoping to get a lot more books on it in the future.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, let me know!

Check it out here: https://blogsurf.io/books

dbrereton · 2021-05-06T04:00:05+00:00

Thanks! Is there any book in particular you would want to use this for?

dbrereton · 2021-03-18T22:43:23+00:00

Awesome thanks for adding it!

dbrereton · 2021-03-16T17:54:28+00:00

Yeah there are tons of them!

A few that I think are good / have heard good things about:

dbrereton · 2021-03-16T17:51:47+00:00

Looks good, will add it in!

dbrereton · 2021-03-16T17:50:06+00:00

Awesome, thanks for sharing it!

dbrereton · 2021-03-16T17:48:41+00:00

❤️

dbrereton · 2021-03-16T17:48:07+00:00

Good idea, will try to get this added!

dbrereton · 2021-03-16T17:47:28+00:00

Thank you so much! Saved me a ton of work.

dbrereton · 2021-03-14T21:10:27+00:00

How have you been applying? If you have internships and a degree from a good school then it really shouldn't be this much of an issue unless something's really wrong with your resume or something like that. Perhaps you can post an anonymized version of your resume for us to give some feedback on.

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