🖋️ I grew to 6k subs in 6 months my career growth newsletter for software engineers

Turning procrastination into productivity. All the lessons I learned from growing my online presence from zero to thousands of subscribers and connections.

I’m not special, so aren’t you.

I had an itch to do something online for more than 10 years, but I never started

Until I did.

Now I have grown in 6 months from 0 to 6k subscribers in Substack and from 300 to 14k connections on LinkedIn.

And I’m going to give you my learnings so you can replicate it if that’s what you want.

👶 Before starting

#1 “I have the desire, but I’m not taking action”

I had the idea of writing a blog about books 3 years ago. I had the idea of writing a blog as a developer when I read The Complete Software Development Career Guide.

Yet I didn’t start any. They were just ideas.

Around June 2023, my coworker Alex Zajac started his newsletter Hungry Minds. I talked with him multiple times to tap into his thoughts and understand how was he feeling about it. It was inspiring to see someone doing what I wanted to do for a long time.

Needless to say, it took me 3 months to start writing myself. I had the idea of doing my own si…