Similar. People actually reading and discussing your work is highly motivating to keep doing it.
I'm in the middle of a security and antifraud series now, motivated entirely by Brian Krebs [1] retweeting me after the Experian breach. The articles have gotten essentially zero traction on HN, but I'm having fun writing them and seeing them get attention on other avenues.
I've been writing off an on for years now, thanks largely to the motivation that getting on the HN front page [2] gave me back in 2014.
At some point, I think I would like to attempt to monetize my writing but I get enough enjoyment from doing it that I haven't ever bothered.
I'm in the middle of a security and antifraud series now, motivated entirely by Brian Krebs [1] retweeting me after the Experian breach. The articles have gotten essentially zero traction on HN, but I'm having fun writing them and seeing them get attention on other avenues.
I've been writing off an on for years now, thanks largely to the motivation that getting on the HN front page [2] gave me back in 2014.
At some point, I think I would like to attempt to monetize my writing but I get enough enjoyment from doing it that I haven't ever bothered.
[1] https://www.brightball.com/articles/automatically-reversing-...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371249