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My First Thousand Views In a Month

Brendan Massey
3 min readJul 21, 2018

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My Blogging History

I am a rather new blogger. Been doing this for a bit less than two months. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I have plenty to say but no one to listen. I thought the idea of blogging was the perfect opportunity for me. I was overcome with joy and excitement when I got my first ten views. I find it strange that anyone would want to read my opinion about anything, yet here I am. I write and write and write some more, some blogs do well, most do not. I was so excited when I got a blog to thirty views. That was a phenomenal milestone. It always brings a smile to my face whenever I see how many people read one of my blogs, whether it be one view or twenty.

No matter how it was happening, I was getting more and more views. I kept reading stories that had six thousand claps and would think, “Wow that’s amazing, I would love to have even fifty!”. Each time I read these blogs, they were mostly on publications, like Hacker Noon. I decided I would try to write an article for Hacker Noon too. The people I have interacted with have been so friendly and kind. Before I knew it, my blog was published on Hacker Noon.

My views sky-rocketed. I had over one hundred views in one day! I was blown away by it. I never really anticipated getting that many, though I had a dream I one day would. That blog reached 280 views over the course of a few days. I had been completely blown…

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Brendan Massey
Brendan Massey

Written by Brendan Massey

I write about programming and computer science as well as review Coursera courses I have taken related to the aforementioned topics.

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