1st month with shippingbytes

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+title:  "One month into shippingbytes"
+date:   2024-07-04 06:08:27
+categories: [post]
+tags: []
+summary: "A little update about my first month writing for shippingbytes. My new blog related to coding and programming"
+changefreq: monthly
+---
+
+[shippingbytes.com](https://shippingbytes.com/) is the new place where I
+fulfill my desire to be a [content creator](/blog/content-creator-wanna-be).
+
+I started my blog many years ago. Thank you to
+[webarchive](https://web.archive.org/web/20100524152800/http://www.gianarb.it/joomla)
+we can go back to 2010, the first snapshot it has about my website.
+
+It was a Joomla installation where I was not writing about coding or
+programming, mainly because I was not a programmer back then. 24th May 2010 I
+was 17 years old mainly blogging about technology I was at the end high school
+learning how to code and almost ready to get my first job in programming!
+
+This to say that writing and blogging got a special place in my life. I like to
+do it but gianarb.it is my special place and this theme forced me to avoiding
+writing about many things that didn't fit in this place. Finally I decided
+to build my place to write about coding, devops, programming and so on.
+
+Social network overall are in a bad spot in my opinion so I decided to setup it
+as a newsletter, if you want you can subscribe and you get the article straight
+to your inbox from an email address that I read and that I reply to!
+
+Similarly to a mailing list but you are limited to speak with me, sorry! I am
+happy to discuss about what I write so let's connect!
+
+I decided to get into this new adventure writing daily for a couple of days
+because we know how important it is to write on a schedule. So I decided to
+remove some rust from my writing skills. I knew it was too much and too
+ambitious but I managed to do it for 3 weeks. A small article a day that I
+shared across various channels: Reddis, HackerNews, Mastodon, Twitter and so
+on.
+
+Just a few vanity numbers in 3 weeks I got 7k pageview. Probably the first
+month will be the best month for this metric for a good while.
+
+At the end of this 3 weeks I changed the schedule to two articles a week
+because it was not sustainable for me and I want to spend a bit more time on
+each post to get the deep enough. I will keep monitoring the queue of articles
+to understand if this is actually a better schedule or if I need to change it
+again.
+
+Hungry of gaining visibility and to build a little community I shared my daily
+posts on social media, form some of them I got really nice vibes from others,
+not that much. So I decided to stop sharing on Reddit for now because it is not
+as friendly as I would like. I will keep HN because worst case they don't get
+much interest but when you manage to get some traction you actually receive a
+lot more traffic, it is just what I am looking for. A platform that amplify
+when I writing something that people find interesting and that stay radio
+silent if not. Reddit in comparison can turn quickly into a rude collection of
+people not capable of empathizing with different opinions and it does not bring
+back that much.
+
+I am not sure about the numbers I am looking at but ideally I hope to stop
+sharing what I am writing on my own because I am limited to the people I can
+reach.
+
+Good for me I have some friends who reach out and get some help from! First one
+Luciano that owns a great newsletter
+[FullStackBullettin](https://mailchi.mp/fullstackbulletin/379-the-last-6-decades-of-ai-and-what-comes-next)
+and features one of my articles.
+
+That said I have the next month almost figured out and if you want me to write
+about something specific let me know!