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Congrats on the launch DK!!!


Yep +1 have sold $4m worth of PDFs/videos to developers since I started working on my first book in 2016. Developers are an amazing audience

Interesting how much money devs want to spend on learning!


Right? Daniel Vassallo's AWS book was another "whoa!" moment. Engineers: a) are generally paid well and b) love learning.

Seems like a wonderful market to sell educational content into


Here's my writeup on why TikTok is doing so well: https://www.danielxli.com/posts/why-im-obsessed-with-tiktok


I enjoyed this, thanks!

I think they also nailed the music aspect of content creation. Whereas other platforms are actively hostile to users using unlicensed audio, TT licenses popular music which saves a boatload of effort on the content creation side and just makes it all more compelling to watch. Contrast that with takedown notices and little support for including sound at all.


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