Realisations during podcasting
The podcast is growing. Yesterday I recorded episode 3 of “Code & Conquer - The Indie Hacker Podcast”. It’s crazy to think that a project that wasn’t around at all end of January is now something people can find on the internet, out there! And listen to me and a guest. My voice out in the open. Crazy I tell ya.
The podcast was born out of an ideation session in our January holidays. My girlfriend and I sat together and talked about “what I actually want to do”. Not what makes me money at the moment. What I actually WANT to do. And those were two things.
Build experimental apps, try out new frameworks, new languages, just for the fun of it. Then write about the process, do maybe a tutorial on it, give a talk, do a video on Youtube. And then on to the next idea, not bothering too much with finishing the project.
Talk to more people in the indie hacker space. I enjoyed my first calls with indie hackers and I wanted more of that. Out of this idea came the podcast.
As you can see, one of the two points is now fulfilled! Which is great. But what about the other one? The podcast might have helped with that.
In Episode 3 of the podcast I’m talking to Benedicte Raae, who is a norwegian indie hacker / developer relations engineer for the companies Xata and Outseta. The weeks before I had already researched what kind of roles could be interesting to me. Right now it’s mostly roles in which I would be able to create AI projects using audio, text, image recognition etc. and give talks / write about them.
Hearing Benedicte talk about her projects with Xata and Outseta, I realized that Developer Relations / Developer Experience Engineers are kind of that role exactly. I didn’t really have them in mind, when I thought about my problem of finding my “dream role”. But here it is.
Benedicte’s business model is kind of unique. She and her husband Ola actually approach companies like Xata and Outseta and talk to them to become their ambassadors and getting paid to do so. They’re then doing projects with the tech of those companies. Those projects might not have been possible without that sponsor, as it might not have made money. With this business model, they become viable through a rather orthodox model. Which I think is awesome!
So what will I do with this knowledge? We’ll see. I think that the DR/DX engineer space is a great idea. Another idea is looking for companies that are looking for AI / prompt engineers and see if they want to work with freelancers. We’ll see how that goes.
I’m excited to have found another angel I can try to take regarding my interest in rapid experimentation of different technologies.