The Geek Creator Podcast

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Episode one of my new podcast. Let's start this journey of sharing what I learned in creating content online since 2010.

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What is The Geek Creator Podcast?

I'm just a dude who likes to talk about nerd stuff and entrepreneurship.

Hi there.

My name is Orrin and I am a
content creator software engineer.

And a nerd.

And I created this podcast because.

I've been creating
content for a long time.

And.

It's only through communities like
the ship, 34 30 community that I met.

Amazing people.

that.

Convinced me that I should
start a challenge like this.

One of those people is Chris.

@bitsofChris.

And.

Chris is another podcaster
and a content creator.

And he has been creating content
during the challenge as well.

We are both captains on ship 30.

And.

I saw his podcast.

I started listening to it and it
was very genuine, very authentic.

And I was like, why am I not doing this?

I started a podcast.

A few years ago, but it's only
interviews and it's about nerd stuff.

But I never created a podcast for me.

A podcast that I can speak directly
to you, the listener or the viewer,

because this is also a video.

And.

Chris and I chatted after he
posted his second episode today.

And I told him.

Listen, you are tempting me.

To start this challenge as well.

And he said you should.

So here we are.

This is day one.

Of a challenge of posting 30
episodes about 10 minutes each.

And.

I wanted to give this challenge a purpose.

It's not going to be like,
okay, let's do a thing.

And then just.

Publish, whatever.

I want to tell a story.

And I think what I'll do.

Is over the next 30 days.

I'll tell the story of.

How I started creating content online.

I've been writing on the web.

Since 2010.

On a little website
called E-Zine articles.

It still exists today.

After I published my articles on
that website, And I also received.

In the mail from them,
a little pad of papers.

For writing titles for my next pieces.

I realized writing is a thing
I want to do and it felt good.

At the beginning, I.

Wrote.

Really bad stuff.

It,

wasn't what I write today.

But.

It was something, it was
words on a page, on the web.

And this was in 2010.

I've never really thought about.

What that meant publishing.

At that time.

And I missed a lot of opportunities
if I had been just consistent with it.

I would have been in a very
different place in life because

if I would have published even
one post a week, Since 2010.

And until today, I would be.

I don't know I would be PatFlynn of today.

I would be James clear of today.

I would be in a very
different place in life.

I didn't do that, obviously.

That's why we're here.

We're learning.

But what I did do was to.

Create a blog about gaming news.

That was the first.

The serious kind of blog
that I opened, it was.

About

Gaming news, video game reviews.

And just video game pieces in general.

I really enjoyed it.

It was around 2011 that we started it.

And By 2014, I started my
computer science degree.

And it's all fizzled out as people
needed to continue with their lives

because we weren't making money.

And it was all voluntary.

I had a team of about 10 writers.

Voluntary writers that I reached out to.

Early on.

I'm still shocked that I did that.

So early.

I was 21.

I was 20 something.

And yeah, this was a very exciting
time . And we published a lot

of pieces, but none of them.

Peaked and reached virality
or the website didn't.

Gain.

Enough recognition to merit, keeping it.

We did do a lot of outreach
to small video game studios.

Some of them even sent
us games in the mail.

Some others sent us video
game keys to review.

It was very cool.

I enjoy that time a lot.

And then when 2014 came around and
my computer science degree started.

I had to leave.

That website behind.

And I didn't want to.

Abandon writing, like completely.

So I started another
blog and another blog.

And another blog.

, I was never consistent with any of them.

Time passed by and it
was 2019, February, 2019.

When I discovered medium, medium.com.

medium.com changed my writing forever.

Because it was the first
time in my life when I wrote.

Something, put it out there
and it was reviewed by humans.

All of the other websites that
I ever published were personal.

I've never written something that was part
of a publication before writing on medium.

And it opened my eyes to
the kind of journalism.

Digital journalism that is
possible when you start a digital.

Publication online.

And I wrote on medium for a year straight.

I published.

To date I published about maybe 300.

Post just on medium.

It's somewhere.

I think between 250 and 300 posts, maybe.

Maybe more.

I don't remember.

But.

Those posts.

Taught me how to write well,
And in 2020 the pandemic hits.

And I kept writing,
but it all fizzled out.

Because people were.

Not reading medium anymore
because they were panicked because

there was a pandemic going on.

They were doing stuff they
weren't at home or at work.

Reading articles online.

And I felt that I missed
the opportunity there.

I still think consistency
would have saved me here too.

And if I kept writing, even though
I didn't receive any compensation or

views or whatever Maybe it would have
been in a different place because.

When we're talking about people
not reading that's a volume thing

because people were reading.

But not.

As many people to actually make
a difference in someone's life.

So that's.

My story with medium.

And then as the months of 2020.

Passed on.

And my birthday arrived at September.

I started a YouTube channel.

During my time on medium,
I published one article.

That really changed.

Waves for me in terms of what
direction to go to it was 2019.

July.

And I had published.

An article about a TV show that
I watched during that time.

And I published it on medium and
it got curated, which means that

it appeared on the homepage.

For specific topics.

For example, the TV topic.

So if you would write medium.com
forward slash TV back then.

It would appear as one of
the articles on the topic.

And that's something that is significant
for a writer to happen because millions

of people write on medium every day.

And having.

One of your articles
featured on that section.

Means something it's not
like a featured feature.

You're not on the homepage of medium.com.

But you're still getting.

A lot more views and a lot more
traction than just publishing on medium.

And I got excited and
I published on Twitter.

And tagged, the Twitter
account for the TV show.

And lo and behold, A day or two after.

DM reached to my inbox on Twitter.

And it was the PR person for that TV show.

And they asked me if I wanted to
interview the The star of the show.

That was huge.

And I immediately said, yes.

And In July, 2019, I interviewed
that person via a phone call.

It was very crappy.

But it was one of the most
exciting interviews I ever made.

And.

Afterwards, I publish it as a blog post.

That was the first interview
that I published as a blog post.

And.

I created.

Relationship with this person.

And I'm telling you this because when I
started my YouTube channel, I published

another interview that I did with him.

Which happened in April, I
think April or March of 2020.

It was just as the craziness started.

So I had that interview with him, but I
didn't have a YouTube channel back then.

So I just made the video because I was
excited to meet him kind of face to face.

But I kept the video.

After.

Starting the YouTube channel.

I started publishing videos.

None of them really hit.

And then I published that video
as a video on my YouTube channel.

And it immediately got
traction and I received about.

500 subscribers in 24 hours.

Which was amazing.

And

And since then a lot of other
things happen, but I am now.

Looking at the clock and realizing
that this is a 14 minute long episode.

So I think I'll cut it short here.

And I will continue.

Telling the story, but
the next few episodes.

We'll tell.

The struggles and the lessons and
all of the things that I learned.

Along the way as of right now, I have
a YouTube channel with about 4,500.

Subscribers.

And.

Another personal channel
with a 1200 subscribers.

And the blog, which gets about a
hundred visitors a month, which is

not a lot, but it's more than nothing.

And There are a lot of things
I learned along the way.

And if you want to stick around.

And have any feedback for me as a creator
it would be awesome to hear from you.

And I hope to see you in the next episode.

Thanks for listening and or watching.

Bye for now.