I started on Medium 30 ago days and the results surprised me!

This story begins one day in late December of 2023, were my YouTube recommendations gave me a video about why blogging as software developers is beneficial. As I knew many developers used Medium I decided to write there.
My first article received 11 views and 5 reads in 3 days. And that’s when I decided to become a Medium Member, and join the Partner Program. At first I thought that I would need to write many articles to even get a return on investment. But after publishing a couple of them, I was surprised to see that on average, my stories got 0.50$ each. While that wasn’t very much, I realized that while writing around 10–15 stories a month it would be profitable.
Unfortunately, I found myself having a hard time to think of stories to write sometimes, while also having the problem of some stories making much less earnings than others.
With all that in mind, here’s what I got:
- 273 views
- 150 reads
- 10 followers

And…
$3.73 USD
While some might think that this isn’t much, for me it is. Although I spent more on Medium Membership (5$), it still is a big success for me.
The future
This little experiment of mine thought me a lot. With all the things that I learnt, I hope to create even betters stories in the weeks to come.
While some might have quit
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