For me, it depends on the movie. I'm glad I saw Mad Max: Fury Road on the big screen - it grabbed, and didn't let go until the credits. And the audio is a big component of that (at home, I just have regular headphones).
But for 90% of dramas, comedies, etc.? The 4K TV in the living room will do just fine.
Excellent points. A judgment call has to be made if there are two competing videos for the same topic, and around the same length. This sometimes happens, for very popular topics (e.g. HTML basics).
The plan is to have a feedback mechanism that will let the viewers decide if a video should stay or go.
Where possible, attention is called to the credentials of the instructor (much more important and impressive than the credentials of the curator). The first few minutes of the videos are usually enough to convince a viewer that it's a serious video intended to convey information.
Great question. The optimal way to learn one of these skills through youtube:
- Run the search
- Click through the top 5-10 results
- Investigate which courses are a) complete (i.e. not just pitches for an upsell), b) up to date, c) presented clearly and succinctly
I did all that already for each topic.
Another big question people have: "Where do I begin learning X?" They inevitably get linked to a giant roadmap diagram. On this site, the videos are arranged in a particular order - starting from the very beginning.
OK, so it's not quite a complete learning platform. I've only covered the most popular resume keywords here.
The idea was to find the best YouTube crash courses for every "hot" tech skill. "Best" is subjective, so I had to rely on video popularity, viewer feedback, and my own watch experience to gauge how effective each one is.
This is for folks that:
- Want to quickly refresh their skills
- Want a preview of a technical topic before investing lots of time and money into it
- Have an interview in 30 minutes and desperately need something, anything
The goal is to get people hooked on a subject - give them a basic overview of what's going on, then lure them in with increasingly more complicated tutorials.
All possible thanks to the YouTube instructors who are kind enough to put up amazing content for free.
1. Is there a community you're already part of? Could be hobby / industry related
2. Do you have an easy way to reach them (e.g. through a sub-reddit)?
3. If people are constantly asking for the same type of information or numbers, is there an opportunity to make a Google Sheets document with useful tabular data? (would only take you a couple of hours)
4. If people keep referencing this spreadsheet you've created, you can throw it into MongoDB and now you've got a) something useful and b) traffic.
Is this simplistic and prescriptive? Yes, but better than create-react-app and hoping to build something people need.
I'm curious -- what decade was that? I grew up in 90s Russia, it was literally "be home for dinner, be back by dark." The things we did without supervision...