last updated on 30 December 2024
I have a Medium profile available here https://medium.com/@damianmarkowski. I used to have 5 articles published there but today I decided to move 4 of them here, to damianmarkowski.com/blog and delete 1 of them permanently since it was written specifically for Medium, it was about using an OpenAI API in an educational mobile app but it was not providing a lot of value.
Why did I publish those stories on Medium in the first place? The only potential advantage of using Medium as an article publisher tool for me was hope that it may give me audience, people that may potentially read my stories. Let’s have a look at some data, if it really gave me a lot of readers.
Those numbers are not horrible but not amazing neither. I could get the same number of views on my blog, here, without Medium readers. There are also a few other advantages of publishing posts only here:
- Monetisation – I show Google AdSense ads here so every time someone reads one of my posts I make some money,
- Full control over my content – I don’t need to make any backups of my posts, I don’t need to be worried that maybe at some point Medium decides to shut down their service and all my posts will be gone,
- Personal brand – having all my posts here works much better for building my personal brand, here posts are a part of the whole damianmarkowski.com service and also a URL for every post starts with damianmarkowski.com/blog/ not with https://medium.com/@damianmarkowski/.
- More focus on blogging – I’ve been focused on investing quite a lot of money in my product in the last 2 years but I decided to stop that, ROI was not big enough unfortunately so I want to focus on sharing my knowledge now, I want to be investing my time instead of money now and that’s consistent with moving all my content to damianmarkowski.com/blog.
Just to conclude this post, here are the links to the posts that I moved from Medium:
- Why I stopped using SwiftUI and AWS in my personal project
- iOS Developer – preparing for a recruitment process, part 1: CV
- iOS Developer — preparing for a recruitment process, part 2: technical screening
- iOS Developer — preparing for a recruitment process, part 3: technical interview