Digital Crafters #4 — Nick Reese
For this episode, I interviewed Nick Reese (twitter.com/nickreese), he's an entrepreneur and web developer who created Elder.js - a static site generator based on Svelte. We talk about how to transition into working on your own, his experience as a consultant, developer, SEO and other interesting topics.
Mentioned projects:
https://elderguide.com/https://fernan...
/ tldraw.com
Cloudflare Athena, Vercel, Netlify
Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1Nluhq1...
Follow me:
https://fernando.works/
/ _fergarram_
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro and apologies
00:01:21 Finding where to start the episode
00:02:08 Nick's career start
00:06:54 From freelancing to productized consulting
00:08:09 Getting into affiliate marketing and SEO
00:12:15 Affiliate marketing is the king of digital businesses
00:13:31 The general problem of marketing
00:14:02 Using SEO to fight political apathy in Mexico
00:15:27 Financing non-profit projects
00:18:35 Creating Elder.js for large static sites
00:21:10 Knowing a problem inside-out allows you to cut through
00:22:28 Publishing an open-source project for the first time
00:23:58 Why non-techie businesses choose WordPress
00:26:00 They don't even use WordPress in the end
00:27:11 Using the gap between business and developers as an advantage
00:31:50 Fail as much as you can before your 30s and focus on asymetric bets
00:32:22 Making a living with art and entertainment
00:33:36 Sponsorware and the thousand true fans
00:35:28 The future of digital professions and education
00:40:56 Everyone wants a website, youtube channel, etc. but it's not easy!
00:43:11 Saying good bye