David Taylor 💙

I've been thinking about this for the last 4 years: what is my niche? I started my online journey in the Flutter niche, but it wasn't a niche I actively chose to be in. I just started making videos about an app I was building and it was using Flutter. Then got sucked down the rabbit hole for a few years. Don't get me wrong. I still like Flutter and use it, and don't plan on using anything else for building apps any time in the future. But I never felt like I fit into the Flutter Dev community. I don't know how it is in other communities, but the Flutter community just seemed way too into it, and way too confident in their solutions and dismissive of others. (I'm sure I did this at some point too, hopefully not much) In my previous job, I got interested in web development. As I started to learn more about it, I thought: "You know this is pretty cool too, maybe Flutter isn't the only thing". Then I worked with backend technologies, and this opinion went further. How can I like other things if my "niche" is Flutter? So then I decided to have "no niche", and just post whatever. That did not work well at all :) The followers, likes, interactions have flat lined for the last few years. If I was super alpha, I wouldn't care, but I do care. Especially when I'm trying to build a business, getting interactions on your content matters. But I was also making "online friends" every week, jumping on calls, doing collabs, having fun. Everybody has a niche. Everybody has something they do that people associate with them. And that can change over a lifetime, but there has to be something. And it happens by having something that you focus on. It doesn't have to be super calculated, it can happen naturally. But it wasn't happening naturally for me. The other option is to really dig deep, and reflect on what gets you super excited, and something you want to dedicate your life to. (It's also not that serious, you can change this if you feel something else later) The problem I have, is that I'm super hyped about everything. Realistically, I could dedicate my life to Flutter. I could just keep going down, and building and teaching more complex and cooler things. But then I would miss out on everything else. Then I thought, maybe I'll pick my favorite technologies and just focus on those. But thats kinda scattered, and then what happens if I get excited about another technology? And even then I am still missing out on a lot of things. So I journaled and journaled through out these years and thought about what I truly want to do. And since this year I had a fuzzy idea, and now it's getting more and more clear. The thing that really drives me is "building good products". I look back at how my whole journey started. One of my first coding projects was building a social media for sharing projects. Why? Because other social medias focused on things I didn't care about, and I really wanted to see what people build. My YouTube channel started not specifically because of Flutter, but because I wanted to build a book club application and I wanted to share the journey. The core value was a "good product" and Flutter was the avenue for getting there. The niche of a "good product" is still limiting. For example, making a video of how to fix your phone doesn't make sense. Or something about my trip to Poland. But it's also super broad, where I will never be bored and never reach a limit, so I can work on this for the rest of my life. And that's super exciting. This is the mission of @hungrimind. To help you build good products. It was a long journey of back and forth with Robert, and it's a mission that we both truly care about and get excited about everyday. There is so many sub-par products out there, and we want to make sure yours isn't one of them.

Instead of taking a break over the holidays, we rebuilt our entire infrastructure. January 13th, we are launching something never seen before in the course space. At least not in the Flutter Community.