Ask HN: Do you have a YouTube channel?

6 points by userium 15 hours ago

Do you create videos? Are they dev related, or about something else? Please share your channel here! Interesting to see if the HN community has interesting YT channels.

epiccoleman 2 hours ago

I do! Two in fact, though it's not something I mess with particularly regularly.

This one has a handful of music-related videos. I really only make these if the inspiration strikes, "Guitar Youtube" is incredibly oversaturated with players much more accomplished than me. I actually have one half-baked video mostly recorded to go up soon.

https://www.youtube.com/@GarageGroovin/videos

I also have this one, which is really just meant to be a dumping ground for random stuff. Currently contains only videos of some FTL runs, although I have a bit of footage from Factorio that I need to upload at some point too.

https://www.youtube.com/@epiccoleman

It's a lot like my blog / personal site in the sense that it often feels like shouting into the void, but people do occasionally find and enjoy stuff I've uploaded. I have two videos that did pretty well by my standards - one on a little guitar music theory "trick," and one on setting up audio routing with Blackhole on MacOS.

The Blackhole one is actually really cool because I get comments from people who were helped out by it once a month or so. It's cool to know that something I made has been seen by several thousand people and 40 or so found it useful enough to comment. Yeah, in the grand scheme of YouTube numbers it's nothing, but for me, making some sort of impact on at least 40 people I've never is pretty awesome.

EvanDotPro 5 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/@evandotpro

Recently started live streaming my paramotor flights on YouTube.

Been streaming on Twitch for a while, but I don't have any of the chat interaction stuff set up with YouTube yet. Honestly only started streaming to YouTube since they retain the recordings.

One of my favs, I got to fly and live stream in the center of totality during the solar eclipse: https://youtu.be/VZ-xxaJIkCg

I'm gradually working on improving the stream. Latest project is adding a chase cam that flies behind me.

Have some other random videos from over the years too.

  • epiccoleman 2 hours ago

    That eclipse video is awesome! And today I learned about paramotors for the first time. What a cool hobby!

4d4m 14 hours ago

Https://youtube.com/@4d4mofficial

gordonzhu 8 hours ago

I've been making algorithms videos that highlight how one could discover various solutions from first principles.

Example: https://youtu.be/54yUPn3M0ds?si=IcKpUW8NO1rqiO4S

I find it really annoying when people just present fully-formed solutions. In my opinion, this misses the whole point of problem-solving.