Playing with a YouTube channel

[kinger]

I am building a compound boost turbo and SC snowmobile and made a trailer.  Also my daughters and I repaired a ski doo sled so I am trying to find my groove on what I like to make vs what people like to watch. 

Any of you in the YouTube space with any thoughts?  I figure at the very least I get to create some memorable vids of me and my girls working on stuff!

I have never done video editing before so if it sucks be nice haha

[MPbdy]

I always admire and am fascinated by youtube channels that blow up.  It takes massive work and tenacity to just keep powering away at making a backlog of videos until something finally clicks and you build a viewership.  I watch a ton of food channels both pro and amateur chefs, crypto and also obviously car content. 

I have no advice lol other than good luck!  It just seems like so much work to always be dealing with cameras and recording all the time.  I've had gopros for the last 10+ years and have rarely ever made use of them, and when I do my videos look nothing like the promo vids lmao.

[Venom13132]

I've often thought about doing a channel but I don't even want to spend the time to update a build thread let alone edit videos.  I wish I would have tried back in like 2007 when I built my first FD and I was doing a lot of car stuff for other people. The market is so flooded with people trying to get monitise channels now it takes an obscene amount of effort.   

I try to follow anyone on here to makes a channel as support.  I'm not super interested in Snowmobiles but I like to see people making cool things

[freeskier7791]

Do videos that you like to do.  How to videos seem to do well for me.  High quality content will be watched regardless of what it is, but finding a niche is key if you want to expand your channel.  Over 3 years in for me and I am almost to 1000 subscribers.  I have not been too motivated to make videos this year but will probably try to next month.

[jwvand02]

I always admire and am fascinated by youtube channels that blow up.  It takes massive work and tenacity to just keep powering away at making a backlog of videos until something finally clicks and you build a viewership.  I watch a ton of food channels both pro and amateur chefs, crypto and also obviously car content. 

I have no advice lol other than good luck!  It just seems like so much work to always be dealing with cameras and recording all the time.  I've had gopros for the last 10+ years and have rarely ever made use of them, and when I do my videos look nothing like the promo vids lmao.

I follow a guy who is working on building a (rotary) hillclimb FC. His videos are pretty good quality, decently shot and edited, he posts weekly, and routinely gets like 90 views. If you want to make it, it's crazy how hard you have to work in the face of all objective evidence saying it's a total waste of time.

[kinger]

Yeah 1000 subscribers seems insane, then my daughters watch fricken piper or something and they have millions LOL 

I guess the niche of snowmobiling is that there is not a lot of content around that.  Also smaller audience too. 


Here are part 1 and 2, they are getting longer as I ramble.  Part 2 near the halfway point I connect the motec to my PC, such a cool tuning platform!

[kinger]

Really proud of myself on this one!  After HOURS of messing with the Canbus of the Motec and K-line of the Yamaha OEM dash I got both dashes working in real time!  Crazy!  This is my first go around wiring CAN and coding it a little.  Actually not really coding per-say but getting everything communicating was frustrating!  Anyway all done now back to wrenching on this and hopefully 150+ mph blasts across the frozen tundra!  haha

[kinger]

Getting there!  Compounding boost!