Indie Bites

Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis


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Aaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos, podcasts and more. Notably he was a founding member of the Hammerstone team, which he’s recently left, to focus his energy on doing something he loves. Most recently, Aaron has launched Screencasting.com, a course teaching you how to make better screencasts.

Timestamps

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:25 Aaron's Background
  • 02:10 Learning Software Engineering through books
  • 03:24 Audience Building
  • 05:51 Benefits of each content medium
  • 08:07 Making time for everything
  • 09:27 Having a full time job
  • 10:23 Leaving Hammerstone
  • 12:36 Launching Screencasting.com
  • 14:33 How has the launch gone?
  • 15:25 Recommendations

Recommendations

  • Book - Any textbook in your field
  • Podcast - No Plans to Merge
  • Indie Hacker - Jordan O’Connor

My links

  • Twitter
  • Indie Bites Twitter
  • Indie Bites YouTube
  • Join the membership
  • Personal Website
  • 2 Hour Podcast Course
  • PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
  • This Indie Life Podcast

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