techtalksweekly

I'm working on Tech Talks Weekly which is a free weekly email with all the recently published Software Engineering conference talks in the past 7 days.

Every week I pull all the new talk recordings from hundreds of conferences (Devoxx, KubeCon, PyCon, QCon, LeadDev, JSNation, and many more). I feature the ones I think are must-watch with short summaries written by me, then include a list of everything else uploaded that week.

It started as a personal project to fix my own messy YT subscriptions and RSS feeds and now 8,700+ people read it.

I also publish extra editions from time to time like “The Most Watched Talks of 2024” which made it to the HN front page. Currently, I'm working on 2025 edition that will be published very soon.

If you watch software engineering conference talks, you might find it useful.

I’d love to know what you think!

I'm building Tech Talks Weekly[1], a free newsletter where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.

Recently, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:

1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.

2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.

3. Get category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem).

It costs almost nothing besides the domain and Claude subscription to improve my tooling.

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

[2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/

YouTube's algorithm is built to maximize engagement for a broad audience. Especially shorts with animated "jumping" captions and videos that zoom in and out every three seconds providing no useful content most of the time.

I found it really frustrating that almost every tech conference talk ends up on YouTube, yet it's surprisingly hard to discover the ones I'd find interesting.

So I wrote a script that fetches all the talks from the channels I follow each week, groups them by conference, and sorts them by view count. That way, I spend about five minutes a week and quickly find the really good ones.

In 2024, I turned it into a newsletter. I use the exact same script and I just copy and paste the results into Substack. It turns out many people are facing the same problem because it grew to over 8,400 subscribers as of today.

I've been working on my newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.

In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:

1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.

2. The list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.

3. Category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem)

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

[2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/

I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.

In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:

1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.

2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.

3. Get category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem)

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

[2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/

I run a free newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where once a week I send all the recently published software engineering and development conference talks and podcasts to my readers.

I'm offering a paid tier as well as sponsorship options, which together give me the above range.

[1] https://techtalksweekly.io/

https://techtalksweekly.io

I'm building a newsletter (with an RSS feed available) called Tech Talks Weekly where my subscribers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts.

I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.

In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:

1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.

2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.

3. Get category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem)

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly [2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-e...

I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my subscribers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1].

I originally built it for myself because I was subscribed to too many conference channels on YouTube and things started getting messy, so I wrote a script to fetch the new talks automatically and send myself an email once a week. Eventually, I turned it into a newsletter.

I currently have over 7,600 subscribers with email open rate consistently between 32%-35%, although I plan to trim the list soon to get into the 40-50% range.

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

If I may ask, what were some of the strategies that drove most of your subscriber growth?

I run a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my subscribers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[2].

I originally built it for myself because I was subscribed to too many conference channels on YouTube and things started getting messy, so I wrote a script to fetch the new talks automatically. Eventually, I turned it into a newsletter.

I currently have over 7,500 subscribers with email open rate consistently between 32%-35%, although I plan to trim the list soon to get into the 40-50% range.

I recently started offering sponsorship options[3] and made $500 in Nov and $700 in Dec so far.

[1] https://techtalksweekly.io/

[2] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

[3] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/sponsor

I'm working on Tech Talks Weekly which is a free weekly email with all the recently published Software Engineering podcasts and conference talks in the past 7 days.

Every week I pull all the new talk recordings from hundreds of conferences (Devoxx, KubeCon, PyCon, QCon, LeadDev, JSNation, and many more) and even more podcasts podcasts. I feature the ones I think are must-watch with short summaries written by me, then include a list of everything else uploaded that week.

It started as a personal project to fix my own messy YT subscriptions and RSS feeds and now 7,500+ people read it.

I also publish extra editions from time to time like “The Most Watched Talks of 2024” which made it to the HN front page.

If you watch software engineering conference talks or listen to podcasts, you might find it useful.

I’d love to know what you think!

I use semantic search ocasionally when building extra editions and use a sentence transformer with all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model.

How did you go about implementing semantic search in your app?

[1] https://techtalksweekly.io/

Every week I pull all the new talk recordings from hundreds of conferences (Devoxx, KubeCon, PyCon, QCon, LeadDev, JSNation, and many more) and even more podcasts podcasts. I feature the ones I think are must-watch with short summaries written by me, then include a list of everything else uploaded that week.

It started as a personal project to fix my own messy YT subscriptions and RSS feeds and now 7,500+ people read it.

I also publish extra editions from time to time like “The Most Watched Talks of 2024” which made it to the HN front page.

If you watch software engineering conference talks or listen to podcasts, you might find it useful. I’d love to know what you think!

[1] https://techtalksweekly.io/

https://techtalksweekly.io/

Every week I pull all the new talk recordings from hundreds of conferences (Devoxx, KubeCon, PyCon, QCon, LeadDev, JSNation, and many more) as well as podcasts. I feature the ones I think are must-watch with short summaries written by me, then include a list of everything else uploaded that week.

It started as a personal project to fix my own messy YT subscriptions and RSS feeds, and now 7,300+ people read it. I also publish fun extras like “Most Watched Talks of 2024” which made it to the HN front page.

If you watch software engineering conference talks or listen to podcasts, you might find it useful. I’d love to know what you think!

https://techtalksweekly.io/

Every week I pull together all the new talk recordings from hundreds of conferences (Devoxx, KubeCon, PyCon, QCon, LeadDev, dotJS, and many more) as well as podcasts. I highlight a few must-watch ones with short summaries, then include a list of everything else uploaded that week.

It started as a personal project to fix my own messy YT subscriptions, and now 7,000+ people read it. I also publish fun extras like “Most Watched Talks of 2024” for Python, Java, Rust, etc.

If you watch engineering talks, you might find it useful. I’d love to know what you think!

Every week, an endless number of new podcasts and talks are published. Most get buried before anyone sees them. My newsletter called "Tech Talks Weekly" is a free email that lists all the new talks and podcasts published in the past 7 days across hundreds of conferences (KubeCon, QCon, PyCon, Devoxx, etc.) and podcasts with a few must-watch ones highlighted and briefly summarized.[2]

Also doing yearly “most-watched” compilations (e.g. 100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2024 that made it to HN front page) which have been fun to put together.

Started it as a side project to stop missing good talks, but now 7,200+ devs read it every week.

[1] https://techtalksweekly.io [2] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

Each issue includes: - Featured talks of the week highlighting the must-watch talks of the week. It includes a short human-written video summary. - New talks including the complete list of all the talks that have been uploaded in the past week. These are grouped by conference and ordered by view count.

From time to time, I build talk compilations, for example: - https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/50-most-watched-software-en... - https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-e..., which made it to the HN front page.

Each issue includes: - Featured talks of the week highlighting the must-watch talks of the week. It includes a short human-written video summary. - New talks including the complete list of all the talks that have been uploaded in the past week. These are grouped by conference and ordered by view count.

From time to time, I build talk compilations, for example: - https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/50-most-watched-software-en... - https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-e..., which made it to the HN front page.

I publish one post a week with all the recently uploaded talks from nearly all software engineering conferences to save my readers time from endlessly scrolling through messy YT subscriptions and to reduce FOMO.

On top of that, each week, I pick a few talks that I think are a must-watch and write a short narrative to give some context.

From time to time, I also put together extra editions summarizing the most popular and most-watched talks in categories like Java, Python, JS, Rust, Backend, Frontend, Web Dev, Data, ML, ...

If you enjoy watching tech talks, you might find it useful.

[1] GOTO, NDC, Devoxx, PyCon, CppCon, JSNation, RustConf and many more. Here's the full list of conferences I have on my radar: https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/tech-conferences

If you're into software engineering conferences (like GOTO, PyCon, Devoxx, CppCon, JSNation, RustConf, etc.) and enjoy watching tech talks, you should check it out.

On that note, I used to follow YT RSS feeds to keep track of the recently uploaded tech conference talks. I felt tired of it as it provides no filtering/sorting/grouping options. To solve this problem, I built a script to track all new talk uploads with an option to sort/filter/group.

Then I decided to scale it and created a newsletter based on that called Tech Talks Weekly. Each issue contains a list of all the recently uploaded tech conference talks from (currently) over 100 tech conferences. The list is grouped by conference and sorted by the view count. Just sharing it here in case you find it useful.