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Aug 31, 2026
Left AWS to Build 6-figure Creator Business | ft. @TechwithLucy | Ep.2 Becoming Creator
Left AWS to Build 6-figure Creator Business | ft. @TechwithLucy | Ep.2 Becoming Creator
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the second episode of Becoming Creator. I am your host, Pankit Gaming, and today we have a guest, Lucy, with us.
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So Lucy is running a Tech with Lucy YouTube channel, and she has built a whole creator business from that. Most people, when they see Lucy, they see 273k followers and 11 million views she got on her YouTube.
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But behind this Tech with Lucy, she left her well-established job in AWS and started cre- becoming a content creator.
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Today, in this episode, we will go through her creator journey, how she left her high-paying job, building a creator-led business, and what's her next goal. So welcome to the episode, Lucy. Hi, thanks for having me.
0:46
It's my pleasure. So let's start with this, uh, question that today, when we see your channel, we see there is 273k followers, 11 million views, but what was the biggest challenge in growing your creator journey? Yeah.
1:04
So there's quite a few challenges throughout this whole journey as a content creator. I kind of split my journey in two halves. So the first half was when I was still working at AWS as a solutions architect.
1:16
That was working on YouTube part-time alongside my full-time job. And then the second half of that journey is now since I quit my job, I am now a full-time content creator on YouTube.
1:27
And so some of the biggest challenges in the first half of it was actually getting that motivation to start my channel, and on top of that, overcoming a few fears like, you know, the fear of judgment, the fear of being on camera, and just the fear of the unknown, like what YouTube is and whether I should even be investing a signif- a significant amount of my time inside.
1:50
And so that challenge, I sort of managed to, you know, push through by just having a bit of a schedule and going like, "Okay, no matter what, I want to publish one YouTube video on my channel every single month."
2:04
And that also comes from knowing my why, because growing up, I always wanted to explore side hustles.
2:11
Uh, my parents are business owners, and so when I first started my nine-to-five job, I was wondering, "How can I challenge myself outside of that to build a second stream of income?"
2:21
And this was during COVID, so I was watching a lot of like, you know, Ali Abdaal, uh, and some other productivity as well as, um, you know, like education content creators.
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There's also some tech ones that I really, uh, got inspiration from.
2:35
So really believing that, uh, I could hopefully make it as a content creator if I just publish consistently, uh, if I can share my journey online and hopefully inspire others.
2:47
If I could teach some technical concepts as well, then slowly I could change it and convert it into a second stream of income.
2:55
So that was the main challenge during the first half, just getting the ball rolling and having that sort of confidence despite my, you know, fear of being in front of the camera, persevering through that, and hopefully, you know, trying to, uh, you know, make a second stream of income and, you know, maybe one day doing that full-time.
3:15
Which, which brings me to the second half, which is q- actually quitting my job.
3:18
And quitting my job was actually a challenge in itself because it was leaving something stable, leaving something that I had a fixed path for. But once I was able to make that transition,
3:30
I realized that everything changed. I had so much more time to work on my channel. I was able to explore a lot of different ideas instead of just being on survival mode and making one video a month.
3:40
I could take on more sponsorships. I could, uh, monetize the channel into even being more than my full-time job.
3:48
And so this was-- this is where I am right now in my second half of my creator journey, and going forward, I'm looking to expand into doing more courses, doing more fun challenges for my community, and just publishing more videos and, uh, you know, continue educating my viewers on cloud and AI.
4:07
And yeah, we can talk more about the kind of like wh- where it's going to be headed later on. But yeah, those are the challenges that I've had so far. Awesome. And let's talk about this creator business.
4:20
So what is the one important health metrics about the creator business which you particularly track as of as today versus, uh, you used to do it maybe, uh, when you started your creator business? Yep.
4:35
So when I first started my creator business, I thought that the amount of subscribers was the biggest metric because I used to see content creators with like 200k, 300k plus subscribers, and I thought, "Wow, it's going to take me a long time to get to that."
4:47
But then I realized that in the creator community, it's more about your average views as well as your engagement, comments, and likes.
4:55
And this is because, you know, a lot of creators can have millions of subscribers, but a lot of them might not already be following them anymore.
5:04
And so it's more about who would consistently show up to watch your videos every single week. And when you have a larger monthly audience, that beats having just a plain subscriber figure.
5:16
So that's something that I track most of the time, and, uh, it's-- you can sort of go a bit more deeper into that as well because some videos, initially you could get like maybe 10,000 views in the first two days because it's like a viral video, but then it sort of goes down after, after a week.
5:36
Whereas other videos, it consistently grow throughout the space of two to three years, and those are more like evergreen videos that can be searched on the internet. Like for example, how to learn AWS for free.
5:47
People are always searching for that. Whereas something like, "Ooh, um, Amazon just laid off this many employees," that's more like a one-off hit video.
5:55
So yeah, that's-- I, I've sort of been exploring both of these videos and try to have a good balance between them.
6:01
But yeah, definitely what would be most important as a metric is views, comments, and likes, and just- General engagement in the long term.
6:11
And that will also help translate into sponsorships, more course sales, and just getting more audience engagement and, you know, making a bigger impact. Awesome. Yeah.
6:21
So I have heard lot of creators saying that getting that 1,000 followers who is continuously engaging with whatever content you are producing is much more beneficial than having, let's say, a million followers or subscribers on any of the platform, right?
6:39
So bang on to that. So let's go back to the start of your journey. You were working with AWS, then you left your job in AWS and started your content creation journey, right?
6:52
What was the most difficult challenge you faced in that transition? Yeah. So I think quitting the job was the-- one of the hardest challenges, whether to do it or not, because technically I could have done both.
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I could have just worked on my channel part-time, keep it growing, and then work on my job as my full-time, my full-time thing. But, uh, so that decision was super hard.
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But then after I actually made that decision and, you know, reality hit that, wow, okay, I'm not making any money from my nine to five anymore.
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It's just up to me and the hours I put in on my content business, which was like, you know, my YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and so on. And so, um, initially,
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I've had some challenges with, you know, just being motivated to work because no one's there telling me what to do, and I could work as many hours as I want or as, as less as I want.
7:44
It's-- there's no sort of accountability. I don't have a boss, uh, managing my, my hours. So I've seen my creative friends actually go down two paths.
7:53
So one path is that once they quit their job, they end up working like 24 hours a day. They just keep working, and no one's stopping them, and they just want to keep growing their business.
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And sometimes it's out of a fear of like, "Oh, I don't want to return back to my job. I want to like prove to everyone I can do my content full-time."
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And then the other half, which is kind of what I end up doing for the first year of quitting my job, is I just took it really chill.
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I think I sort of still put in like the, the part-time hours initially and, and I felt kind of bad for that. I was thinking, "I quit my job for this. I should be putting in like at least five hours a day full time."
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Um, thankfully now I've found my rhythm and, um, I have like a pretty good schedule in that like I don't just work for the sake of putting in the hours, but I'm not just like procrastinating and working really ef-inefficiently during the day.
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Um, I would also have to say like, thanks to AI, it's making-- uh, it's made my-- a lot of my workflows much faster.
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And thanks to also having a few editors to help me edit, uh, that has also signif-significantly shortened the time for me. Awesome. So let's dig deeper into this AI, right? You know, AI is the talk of the town today.
9:03
So what workflows you have automated using AI today? So with scriptwriting, my typical workflow is I will generate the initial concept with AI. Like my, my go-to is Claude, and I'll play devil's advocate.
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I'll keep asking questions like, "Is this really the best script?" Or like, "Have you considered this point or this point?" And I got-- get up to a solid video outline, a video script, and then I go through it.
9:30
I, I copy and paste it into a doc, and I go through it word for word, and I pretty much rewrite everything in my own tone, and I add on extra research on top of that.
9:37
So AI has been really great at providing me a base and a skeleton when it comes to scriptwriting, because I started YouTube in 2020, like at the end of 2020, and that was before ChatGPT came out, and a lot of the videos I just had to write from a blank sheet of paper, and everything I had to like search on Google, research stats, and write everything h- by hand.
9:58
But AI has pretty much cut my scriptwriting time from something like 10 hours per video into two to three hours, uh, which is still a lot for writing the script, but you can see it's like a 70% decrease.
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Um, also when it comes to editing, I have a tool called Gling that I use, and it cuts out a lot of my pauses or a lot of mistakes when I speak.
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So I can use that to have an initial, uh, I can initially polish up the video and then share it to my editor so then they can add all the fancy, you know, sound effects, transitions, and text.
10:33
Um, because those were my two biggest bottlenecks, scriptwriting as well as, um, editing.
10:39
And I think recording is, is something I hopefully AI won't fully replace because I've seen some AI creators, mo- they mostly live on short form, but, um, I think it's still important to record everything by myself, um, really focus in on my storytelling and the way I explain concepts rather than, you know, in the future, hopefully we don't get to a point where everything is AI generated on YouTube or a significant portion is.
11:06
I still think that human element is important when it comes to being a creator. Great. Yeah. So hum- without that human element, there is no creator, right? It's basically a faceless channel.
11:19
And yeah, it is growing today, but, uh, it, it's not a creator-led business ultimately. So l- let's go deeper into this.
11:27
So today, when we see lot of technical content creators, they purely focus on the technicality of the things and not on the storytelling and, uh, positioning themselves in particular niche.
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However, I saw your channel, and I analyzed, uh, all the videos you have and found that there are about 35 videos where you created around your life as a creator, uh, you visiting tech events, et cetera, right?
11:56
Now, how did you learn that saying your story matters apart from just the technicalities in being technical content creator? So, uh, for me personally, I was pretty much sharing my story from day one.
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And I accidentally fell into that actually, because I started my journey as an Amazon intern and followed-- like six months later, I became a, uh, graduate solutions architect.
12:20
So I didn't really have much technical knowledge to share to begin with. I was learning, uh, in the initial stages. And so I decided to actually just share my journey online, uh, share my learning process.
12:31
So every time I passed an AWS certification, I would talk about how I was able to pass it, the learning resources I used.
12:38
I was not like some other channels, maybe like teaching concepts like introduction to EC2 or like, you know, different AWS services because I wasn't really even confident enough to speak about the tech.
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So that got me very comfortable initially to just talk about my journey and to be very honest about it.
12:54
Because one of my earlier videos was called How I Failed the AWS SysOps Associate exam twice, and that resonated with a lot of viewers, and a lot of people actually commented below that the same thing happened to them.
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But you know, if no one talks about it, then everyone thinks that, oh wow, this is... I'm, I'm the only failure here. Everyone else is passing the exam on the first go. So kind of, um, encouraging others.
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And that video did quite well.
13:19
So from, from there, I realized that, you know, you can't just always talk about like the technical side of things, which, which I do a lot more now because I've have-- I have that technical expertise now to talk about different concepts, but always reminding others that the...
13:34
it's, it's a journey and, uh, everyone starts at a different place.
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But, you know, sharing my journey can hopefully bring some, either some motivation, maybe some learnings or, you know, anything else to, to my viewers, uh, for them to realize that it's, yeah, it's not just about learning the, the, the tech.
13:51
And even when I talk about the technical side of things, I try to make it very beginner-friendly so that it's very inclusive to my whole community, even if it's like a very deep dive niche topic.
14:02
Um, so yeah, I think I always try to remember that my audience, uh, all comes from different stages and if I can just sh-share my personal perspective and make sure that my content is inclusive, then, uh, hopefully that, that would help the audience grow eventually and, uh, resonate with my, yeah, what I have to say.
14:23
Great. So now let's shift back into you, uh, running a creator business, right?
14:30
So initially you started posting about your story as, as you mentioned on YouTube, Instagram and all these channels, and now you are full-time content creator running a, uh, content creation business.
14:43
So how that shift happened and what are the deci-- your day-to-day decisions today look like about running a business? What are your systems? Uh, can you share about that?
14:53
So initially it was making videos for kind of for fun and just seeing like what resonates with my audience. But then it got to a point where, uh, I re-- I got my first one thousand subscribers on YouTube.
15:08
I got, uh, monetized and sponsors starting, started reaching out to me. So at that point, I started to create-- I started to take my YouTube journey more like a business rather than something that's like a side hustle.
15:22
So that transition, uh, went a bit like this. So initially it was just, um, making videos my audience wanted to see. I didn't really care about the length of the video. If it happened to be six minutes, cool.
15:34
If it happened to be 12 minutes, that's okay.
15:36
But then later it gets to a point where when you treat it as a business, you really need to think about small things like how do I optimize this thumbnail so more people can click? Uh, what about my video description?
15:48
What about SEO? A lot of it seems kind of boring, and you can feel like as an individual creator, why am I doing all of this?
15:55
But it really plays a big diff-- like it really pl- does a lot to, to your, um, to your channel because sometimes like even adding something like an affiliate link on one of your videos, in two years that affiliate link can generate you a couple of hundred or maybe a couple of thousand depending on, you know, the amount of traffic or if the affiliate link is relevant to your audience.
16:18
Um, so that's something that I do more now as a creator.
16:22
So every time I publish a video, it's like, okay, I follow a specific structure like the thumbnail, the descriptions, whether my courses are linked, and, um, I also make it a point to share on LinkedIn with my Instagram community and so on.
16:37
And one more thing as well is that for long form content, you can actually take that script and publish it in like across five different platforms because that one piece of long form content, if you just post it on YouTube, you're sort of not utilizing it to its full potential.
16:53
You can repurpose it into a newsletter, you can make it a Instagram Reel, LinkedIn post and, and so on, right? You can even create like a mini quiz out of it.
17:01
So, uh, I think sometimes it's not really about like putting in more work, but getting the more output from the work you already put in and trying to like automate parts of the workflow.
17:13
And thankfully I have, I have a team of, uh, two, one part-time, one full-time.
17:18
They're actually both based out of India, and they help me a lot when it comes to repurposing my content, so helping me take my existing ch-- uh, YouTube videos and turning it into a newsletter, for example.
17:29
So yeah, the, the business side of things is I think overall it's just about being more intentional and, uh, yeah, kind of just like making sure the little parts are optimized.
17:40
Oh, obviously like repurposing is one of the largest way, uh, creators can reduce the burnout at the end of the day when you can publish one content and share it across multiple channels and bring value to your audience, right?
17:55
Now let's go deeper into the, uh, creator business. And when we talk about business, one of the key area is, uh, how to generate revenue, right?
18:05
So could you share what kind of revenue models, uh, you are working with right now?
18:10
So for me, my current revenue streams are split across YouTube sponsorships YouTube ad revenue, uh, some-sometimes a bit of meta ad revenue as well, and also courses and affiliate links.
18:25
So these are the five main income streams, and each creator that I meet has a mix of the five, but the percentage breakdown might vary. So for me, currently, I have, uh, 80% sponsorships coming from my revenue, right?
18:40
Whereas other creators might have 80% of their revenue come from courses, and then some might have, like, a larger percentage coming from affiliates.
18:49
So it just really depends on the type of content you like to make and, um, also, like, what works for your channel and what works for your specific niche.
18:59
Because even within the tech niche, there's cloud, there's cybersecurity, there's AI.
19:04
And for example, what I've noticed works really well for AI niches is that they have these private communities, which is like their cr- uh, their audience pays a monthly subscription to access their, like, private community, where they have, like, more resources and, like, monthly meetings.
19:20
Um, and yeah, just for my channel, I've been w- w- working mainly from sponsorships because I really like to introduce new tools to my audience.
19:28
So tools that I already use, companies reach out to me, and I just get to make a demo video for them and, like, you know, share with my audience. So, uh, that's, that's my audience... I mean, that's my revenue breakdown.
19:40
So let's go much deeper into these revenue channels, right? You said that brand deals or sponsorships is 80% of your revenue.
19:48
So how did you-- like, when you got your first thousand subscriber or ten thousand subscriber, you must be getting one brand deals a month, and now maybe ten, twenty, hundred brand deals a month, right?
20:00
So how did you scale, uh, those brand deals, sponsorships or other, uh, revenue channels? So unfortunately, with sponsorships, I can't make, like, a hundred a month. May- I, I mean, some channels maybe they can.
20:14
They just post like ev- like three, four times a day.
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But, uh, I realized that for me, it's usually capped at about six to eight, and then because after that it, it's really tiring for me and also my, my ch- like my audience doesn't want to see like so many sponsored videos.
20:29
So what I do in order to maximize my revenue is that, uh, I tend to offer packages.
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So for example, if one crea- uh, one sponsor wants me to make a YouTube video for them, I also let them know I have a, a Instagram account, I have a LinkedIn account, so they can get a bundle, for example.
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So that's kind of like a typical upsell. It's like, "Oh, would you like a extra LinkedIn post for, for an extra so and so amount of money?" Um, that's how I've been able to scale.
20:59
But yeah, with, with sponsorships, there is a cap on how many I can do a month.
21:04
But thankfully, you know, when, as your audience grows and as you develop more of a, uh, competency in making videos, it sort of becomes like a, like a leverage because initially, let's say I might only be able to charge like five hundred per video, like at the very start when my channel was growing and I wasn't sure how much I could be charging.
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Whereas right now I could 10X that and charge five thousand for a video.
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So you can see that even though I'm making the same amount of videos per month, it's like the revenue can grow and also through my other platforms growing, I'm able to create bundles out of that.
21:41
Um, and I've seen other creators, I mean other revenue streams, for example, like courses, those are much easier to scale because you can like, you know, publish more courses, you can create like high ticket courses as well, boot camps and so on.
21:55
But what I personally like about the sponsorship route that I'm going with is that my crea-- I mean my us- my, my viewers, my viewers don't have to pay anything, uh, f- to f- watch the video.
22:06
So all my content still stays free, but I'm not charging a lot for that information or that access.
22:13
Uh, whereas creators who are more courses based, a lot of their useful information will be hidden behind the courses themselves. Great.
22:22
So just for our viewers, uh, Lucy has a whole course on how to become a tech content creators. Link is in the description. Go check it out.
22:30
So, uh, Lucy, most of the time when we talk about technical content creators, we usually, uh, say that, okay, the person needs to have a deep technical understanding of particular subject, right?
22:43
When it comes to content creation, you need to know how to present yourself, how to do storytelling, et cetera.
22:49
So what was the hardest skill that you had to learn apart from the technicalities, uh, to become a content creator? Yep.
22:57
So the hardest skill that I had to learn is probably just like everything involved with the YouTube production process because, you know, when you think about when you're working as a solutions architect or maybe as a developer and you join team meetings, all you have to do is share your screen and start presenting.
23:15
Whereas when you're a YouTube content creator, you have to think, "What am I g- what am I going to wear? What's going to be my background?"
23:21
Lighting, microphone, all of this, and learning all of this and making sure that I edit in a way that can, uh, increase the retention, all of that, the, the technicalities of YouTube becomes a big part, and I actually talk about that in my part-time tech YouTuber course on Zero to Cloud.
23:39
So I talk about how to monetize your channel, how to set up everything like your tripod, your camera, your microphone and things like that. Yeah.
23:48
And also, you know, if you're working in a job and presenting something technical, s- most of the time you're given the topic, so you know, y- your boss or your manager wants you to present to the team about a certain topic or a new release.
24:03
But when you're a YouTuber, it's sort of like a blank slate. You can talk about anything you want. And, uh, yeah, I, I mean, you can stick to a certain niche.
24:13
So for example, in my case it's cloud and AI- But there are so many different topics that I have yet to touch. And so there are so many opportunities, uh, for me to share different, uh, videos for my audience.
24:26
And so one challenge that I have to figure out is like, what's the next video that would be best for my audience that they want to see?
24:33
Uh, storytelling, I think, I, I think storytelling, knowing how to explain concepts in a way that's easy to understand, these things really come with time.
24:43
So after each video, I sort of, you know, I can watch my video back again. I wa- rewatch a lot of my videos. Sometimes it's kind of weird, but I think it's a great learning experience.
24:53
You can see, wow, okay, so last week my videos were like this. I noticed my hand movements were weird, or maybe like the way I said this was not, not the best.
25:02
So you can like improve that over time with each of your videos. Great. Now, uh, so you started with, uh, AWS cloud content creation, and now you have also moved into AI.
25:16
You started, you create, recently created video around OpenClou, right?
25:20
So, uh, most of the time when you start with something, some particular niche, and then you want to shift to another niche, how did you take that journey? What were your learnings around that?
25:32
Pretty much every content creator I know who's in like cloud cybersecurity or like software engineering niche, we all have to talk about AI because we can't just pretend it doesn't exist.
25:42
Uh, even with learning cloud, I would highly recommend people learn it alongside AI or at least utilize AI for learning.
25:49
So I knew this was something I had to talk about, but I would have to think about how do I make this seamless switch in my niche.
25:57
So I remember when ChatGPT first came out, I started making videos like five ways to learn AWS Cloud with ChatGPT.
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So just to get my audience familiar with using AI as a tool, and slowly over time, I was able to make more videos purely focused on AI.
26:16
Like for example, the video I made on what is OpenClou, or even a video on what is MCIE.
26:22
But the thing is, I like to still have that cloud element inside, so preserving my old niche, because most of my subscribers subscribe because of my cloud content, and they're still looking to learn and upskill in cloud.
26:33
So even when I talk about a new niche, I like to bring them along every time I do an example.
26:38
So for example, like if I make a OpenClou video, I can talk about how I can help them with their cloud journey and, um, [clears throat] maybe like building a cloud study tutor, for example, with AI.
26:49
I went through your channel and I found that you publish more long-form content than short-form, right? However, producing short-form content today is very easy.
26:58
So why did you took this decision that you want to publish more long-form content compared to short-form content?
27:06
It's kind of just how I started because when I started my channel at the end of twenty twenty, TikTok was still like cooking videos and dancing trend videos. It was not really used for education.
27:18
So it didn't really make sense for me to start on TikTok and Instagram.
27:23
Um, so YouTube is just something stable I've always, uh, made videos on, and I, I do create short-form occasionally, but it's the platform where, in my opinion, it's easiest to teach something properly.
27:38
Uh, when I see other tech creators post on short-form, their videos are amazing and they get a lot more views than me, but then the demos are more like, okay, here's like a quick showcase. Let's click some buttons.
27:49
You know, here's the final result.
27:51
But then it doesn't bring users, you know, through the whole journey of like how to build an app from start to finish or like more in-depth on each of the certifications that I'm sharing.
28:02
Uh, so I think both have its individual purpose and even short-form creators, when it comes time for them to explain something in detail, they'll also have a YouTube channel that they spend twenty percent of the time on, and then they have more in-depth tutorials.
28:15
So I think it's just, for me, I started on YouTube. YouTube is like kind of like something I've grown. It's like my baby and the other channels are just kind of like I'm putting twenty percent into that right now.
28:26
But I think eventually, you know, as all of our attention spans start to decrease and people want more like content instantly or information instantly, YouTube, I mean, Instagram becomes more, more of something that I can use to, uh, gain an initial audience and then when they want to learn about something in more detail, I can then forward them to my YouTube channel.
28:48
So that's something I'm still figuring out at the moment. Awesome. So if I were to summarize, uh, if you want to deliver value, then you have to create a long-form video more.
28:58
And if you just want to entertain, then probably a short-form video is much more better, right? Yeah. I think short-form is really great for just bring awareness.
29:06
Uh, let's say if any technical professional want to start their content creation journey today, what are your, uh, suggestions to them? Yeah.
29:16
Uh, actually, whenever my friends ask me about starting a YouTube channel, I actually tell them to start an Instagram account instead because YouTube, honestly, it was so hard for me to start. I had to buy a camera.
29:31
I had to like learn all the angles, the lighting and everything.
29:34
Whereas on Instagram, people are a lot more forgiving if you don't have like really good lighting and you can just like lie in bed with your phone and say something. [chuckles] Uh, so I think
29:47
my, my advice to people who are at the start of the journey is just to do whatever is the lowest barrier of entry. I mean, if you're really, uh, comfortable with making long-form YouTube videos, then go with that.
30:00
But if every day you're scrolling Instagram or TikTok and you're really familiar with the algorithm, then TikTok and Instagram will be a good one to start with.
30:07
Uh, so I think if I were to go back to my younger self, uh, because the thing is, I actually wanted to start a YouTube channel the, the entire year of twenty twenty, but I kept procrastinating.
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I was thinking, you know, all of these things were stopping me and I was scared and worried about it and maybe saying I didn't have time. But if I was to go back, it would be like-
30:28
Make less excuses for yourself and, uh, maybe consume more content that you want to make, and then naturally you can, um, just start with your iPhone. You don't have to buy any fancy setup.
30:40
You can just start with your phone and publish to whatever platform you understand the most. Now, uh, so this is the last question I have.
30:48
Uh, where do you want to take, uh, Tech With Lucy in next, uh, two to three years? So honestly, I think... I mean, before I used to set bigger plans, like, okay, this is my one-year plan, two-year plan, five-year plan.
31:01
But right now, I think with the state of the world, it's very up, up in the air. Like for example, if AI continues to boom and AI models actually get really advanced, I can keep talking about AI on my channel.
31:16
Um, and especially if, like, cloud roles are there as well. That's the direction that I would take.
31:21
But, you know, there's another side of it where people say there's an AI bubble happening, and investors are putting all this money, but might not be able to get, like, the whole...
31:30
the full returns that they're expecting. So with that, I might have to shift my content out of AI.
31:36
So it kind of depends on the current industry trend, and if in, like, in another s- scenario where AI gets, like, super powerful and, uh, in the case we talked about earlier where a lot of YouTube content is AI generated, then I'll have to think about maybe how do I get together a team to replicate me, to create more of me, to scale me with AI, because [laughs] that's what everyone else w- will be doing.
32:00
Um, so it's up in the air, but I think the overall theme is that I want to keep learning, and I want to share what I learn on my channel.
32:11
That's, that's sort of the main theme, and if I can make money from that, that would be great. I'll keep doing what I'm doing. Uh, if not, I might have to switch and change to another career.
32:20
So we- we'll see how it goes. I mean, AI... s- with AI, nothing is certain at the moment. Very true. [laughs] AI is disrupting everything, and content creation is also a part of that, right? Yeah.
32:34
So, uh, that's a wrap about for this episode. Thank you everyone for watching us. Thank you, Lucy, for joining in this episode. Thanks for having me. [outro music]
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