👉 Software dev who made $2M thanks to Youtube 👉 170k subs / 12M views on Youtube (@EatTheBlocks) 👉 Sharing what I learned along the way

Taiwan
Joined November 2014
goddamn it this is the beginning of WW3 and still no buying opportunities...
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ViralOutlier just had its first sale! 🎉🎉🎉
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ViralOutlier is LIVE (Youtubers pay attention) 👇 I am a Youtuber who got 12M views, 170k on his channel EatTheBlocks. Getting good video ideas has been the most important factor in my success. My most reliable source of good ideas was my competitors: every week, I check out what my competitors are doing, and what is working. But the monitoring process is very tedious I built a tool to automate the process, for myself. Then I decided to make the tool available to others. This is ViralOutlier. If you are a Youtuber who is struggling to get more views, sign up for the tool, register a few competitors, and your views will take off: viraloutlier.com
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📚I have read 100+ books last year 👇Here is my top 10 📕The beginning of infinity - David Deutsch One of these rare books that changes the way you think. It will also make you an optimist. Technically, it’s an epistemology book. The theory of knowledge. But it’s also about human progress. How we can get better at everything. It claims that all our problems are related to a lack of knowledge, and our solvable. There is an absolute morality, and we can find it. The book offers strong arguments against environmental zealots, post-modernism, and cultural relativism. 📕The average is over - Tyler Cowen 10y ago, a famous economist accurately predicted the impact of AI on jobs and the economy. He reveals which jobs will disappear, and which ones will survive. AI is different from previous tech revolutions: less jobs will be created than those destroyed. And it will reinforce existing inequalities on the job market: the top performers will make more money, all the other less, or be unemployed 📕The road - Cormac McCarthy A post-apocalyptic novel. Dark but beautiful. A father and son try to survive in a post-apocalyptic America. 📕Hail Mary - Andy Weir Great Sci-Fi novel. A scientist is sent in a spaceship in a last ditch attempt to save humanity. I loved the dual-timeline narration, with interleaved flashbacks. Same author as the Martian. 📕Make: bootstrappers handbook - Pieter Levels The book on indiehacking and building SaaS, written by the most famous indiehacker. You don’t need to build something big. Build a small solution for small problem for a small audience. It’s both inspiring, and immediately useful with lots of practical advice. 📕AI Engineering - Chip Huyen In 2025, I wanted to catch up with AI. I wasn’t sure where to start. I wanted to know just enough about LLMs to interface with them, but I didn’t need to go too deep, as I won’t build them. This book was exactly what I needed. 📕How to fail at everything and still win big - Scott Adams The author of the famous Dilbert comics tells us about his long string of failures before finally becoming successful. You don't need to be excellent in any field to be successful. You can create a lot of value with a unique combination of average skills. 📕Into Africa - Martin Dugard The exploration of Africa for finding the source of the Nile. It’s like Indiana Jones except it is a real, brutal story. 📕Spice - Roger Crawley The quest for the Moluccas archipelago - the unique source of rare spices - long coveted by Europeans, but only discovered in the 16th century. Fantastic travel adventures, including the epic expedition of Magellan who sailed the Pacific Ocean for the first time. 📕Imperial Twilight - Stephen R Platt The early commercial relations between the British and Chinese, and how it led up to the Opium Wars and the cession of Hong Kong to Britain. It's very relevant for understanding China and its relationship with the West.
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Currently reading a book about Vibe Coding from well-respected programmers: “While YouTube influencers grab headlines by generating World War II flight simulators in a single prompt, we’re focused on bringing vibe coding into professional software engineering.” I am the Youtuber...😭 youtu.be/rB0soVsiBLI?si=W1dl…
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I created 6 apps thanks to chatGPT 5 (Vibe Coding Test) 👇
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Thank you so much @UberEats for your very generous 0.034 USD discount Next time try to make the discount even smaller, i dont think i deserve so much money 😂
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(3/3) Example of - talking head: youtu.be/eG0D0tbQdaY - technical tutorial: youtu.be/WLml1rBSoLM To apply, email [email protected] with - Your rate for a 10min talking head video - Your rate for a 10min technical tutorial video - The top 3 videos you have edited
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(1/3) I am hiring a video editor for my Youtube channel. EatTheBlocks is a channel about AI & business (170k subs, 12M views) youtube.com/@EatTheBlocks You should be able to do both talking heads and technical tutorial videos.
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(6/6) If you run a content business, you need to be 100% in it You can't just go through the motion So, I decided to re-align EatTheBlocks with my deep beliefs We will pivot to AI Thanks for people who supported me so far! More on this here: youtu.be/jOZ8NqfHiGY
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