What I learned after 8 weeks as a YouTuber

It's an interesting idea, and I do like how you've wrote about every aspect of your experience on the site. Yeah, Reddit doesn't take very well to self promotion. Post more than one of your works every so often, and they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks. Not surprised your last video struggled there.

For progress... well, from what I've heard on the grapevine (read, Twitter), becoming super popular on YouTube tends to happen a lot quicker if you can find other popular channels and work with them as soon as possible. Boundary Break got super popular when Aurum (a popular video game glitch posting YouTube) featured him on his channel home page. Slopes Game Room has done well in part thanks to Guru Larry (an ex Channel Awesome personality with over 200,000 subscribers) mirroring his videos on his channel with a link in the description (with permission).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18TU62nW_c

That seems to be the quick way to get popular now. Be featured on a popular YouTuber's channel as a 'friend's channel', or appear in their videos as a special guest. Or as someone they're interviewing.

And yes, making videos is hard. It's like anything really. Running a website with daily updates is hard. Running a startup is hard. Life will always try and throw you for a loop, and the mark of a skilled creator is overcoming that wherever possible.

Good luck with your future YouTube career, if you keep going with this.

Hey, I'm the author. I'd love to discuss the project with Hacker News.

I know a lot of prominent entrepreneurs hang out here, so I'd like to ask if anybody is interested in having a chat with me for the channel?

Thanks!