Let me explain... 👇 In 2020, I decided to go 100% freelance, and I was confident. 💪
I'm not made for permanent contracts, that's just how it is, some people are, I'm not. 🤷♂️ But the hardest thing about being freelance is finding clients you actually want to work with... 🎯
Except that, since I was a teenager I've always had a blog, initially very technical. 💻
When I launched, I chose to continue this adventure, to create quality content, to help others and make myself a bit better known in the tech sphere... 🚀
And let's be honest, at first I didn't believe in it, but whatever, it was fun to do. 😅
So from 2020 to 2023, Josselin and I started writing, writing a lot, back then nobody read what we wrote, we were invisible on Google. 👻
Then, over time, we started getting readers, I still remember the feeling when for the first time I was in the top articles of the week on JDH... 🎉
Since the end of 2024, it's grown even more... and I'm having a bit of trouble with all of this. 📈
Let me explain (again haha). 😂
When I write articles, when I post on X, I expect nothing, I don't do it for the views, I just do it because I enjoy it at its core, I love sharing stuff with you... ❤️
But now, I realize that everything I write is going to be read. 👀
It's becoming commonplace, a simple tweet I write quickly to talk about an article or topic will easily be seen 5,000 times, I know, for influencers, it's nothing but for me it's huge. 🤯
On top of that, when I publish certain articles, they get over 2000 reads in a week (the blog's view counter really takes into account the fact that you stay on the page). 📊
There are people who spend hours on the blog, who look at everything WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS. 🔍
And when I don't think about it, it doesn't affect me, but when I look at all this... sometimes it terrifies me. 😱
There's also something else, sometimes, when we run into each other in certain places, some of you know everything about me. 👥
First of all, it's very kind of you to give me all this attention. 🙏
Just remember that I don't know who you are yet 😝.
It's a very strange feeling when someone acts like they know you (and says things about you that are true) but you have no idea who they are... 🤔
Think about that when we meet 😁.
Otherwise, you're welcome, and you'll always be welcome. 🤗
That being said, the blog allows me today professionally to work on great projects with people I like 😍.
So aside from my rather introverted side naturally, (well yeah, I'm a dev at heart), it's way too good! ✨
