[nycdotnet]

I made two TypeScript videos for Pluralsight ("ES6 with TypeScript" and "Practical TypeScript Migration"). I put them together in the evenings and weekends using the knowledge I got at my day job and from working on TypeScript open source projects like grunt-ts (and a lot of research).

It was a lot of work, but it's a great passive income now that they're done, and I'm quite proud of how they turned out. The Pluralsight authors are a great professional network to be plugged-in with, and being an author is a pretty unique differentiator on your resume.

I'm going to put together a third course soon.

They're always looking for new authors. https://www.pluralsight.com/teach

[nojvek]

That seems interesting. How much do you make a month?

[nycdotnet]

I prefer not to say exactly, but it's enough to post on this thread and also enough that I'm considering making another one. Their top authors make serious money.

[djKianoosh]

what tools did you use to prep/record your videos?

[nycdotnet]

I record on Windows using Visual Studio and Atom with the atom-typescript extension. I recorded the video using Camtasia and bought a nice mic with a pop-screen and boom arm (Rhode podcaster USB). It was about $600 for the Mic and Camtasia. (Note I made this investment back easily and I have it forever now). Camtasia includes all of the video and audio editing capabilities required for Pluralsight, but I also used Audacity to do some of the audio editing because there was a nice compressor plugin that another author recommended. PowerPoint is required for the slides. Many authors use Macs and Keynote and similar software is fine - they just take mp4 files as the final deliverable.