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.
Definitely less than before 2020, but in the meanwhile, I built Tech Talks Weekly https://www.techtalksweekly.io/ where I send out all the recently published conference and meetup talks every week.
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)
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.
I've posted a few viral compilations, like this one[1], which have driven hundreds of new subscribers to the list. The rest is mainly coming through the word of mouth.
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.
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'm using a Postgres database. So when articles are ingested, I use the Gemini Embedding model (they have a great free tier) and save that in a vector column that is used later to do the search.
I'm working on Tech Talks Weekly[1] 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've been 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) 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
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.
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