[sitkack]

That is why there is a small time window for smallish niches, like Elixir, Clojure or Rust. One has to have their eye one fashion, the crowds, the knowledge gap and the perceived utility.

I personally wouldn't wanting to be competing with all the other beginner material and sufficiently advanced material would take forever to produce.

But if there was a 100 page book on writing an Elixir/Phoenix app and deploying it on K8s across 4 cloud providers, using a CDN and Aerospike, I'd pay 50$ for that.

[Swizec]

> I'd pay 50$ for that.

That’s the other problem. The thing you just described is worth 6-figures when sold as a consulting deal. Why do you expect to pay just $50 for the book version?

[sitkack]

Exactly, which is why the expert information is teased out in a couple in depth blog posts.

https://www.michael-noll.com/projects/

Does a very good job in this regard. I think if you have a consulting agency where you can train or lead on multiple projects, then a book could be a very good sales vehicle.