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Ask HN: Do you try dev tools recommended on TikTok and Instagram?

3 points by DavorDK ↗ HN
The influencer market is vast. My kind of opinion is that probably Twitter is still the strongest one in terms of tech influencers, however, you can't deny the reach of TikTok, Instagram stories, and reels as well as youtube shorts.

What's your opinion on short-form video content? How do you consume it? For fun, or do you actually end up trying some of the recommendations these influencers dish out?

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WantonQuantum
My answer to this is such a strong no that I actually find the question itself very odd.

I don't use TikTok or Instagram at all. I ditched Twitter a couple of months ago. I get tech info from sites like this one and tech related subreddits.

DavorDK
Tech Twitter is still very strong IMO. But yeah, I get that probably the most relevant stuff you could find are sites like this.

There is some useful info you can find on IndieHackers, GitHub, Stack Overflow, etc depending on what you are looking for exactly.

Mezzie
Dev tools? No.

Marketing tools? Hell yes.

I'm primarily on TikTok for meta-reasons when I'm there: I like to watch TikToks about TikTok and see how non-techy humans view the algorithms and platforms. Never got on IG: Static images didn't interest me as a medium for social media and I prefer to go directly to the source platform for something rather than use its competitor's bland copies. I don't like to incentivize lazy 'innovation'.

ackatz
If normal YouTube counts, then absolutely! Through YouTube, I’ve found HTMX, Obsidian, Warp, some others.

I watch very little short-form video content, however. There is something fake and contrived about a lot of short-form content that is really off-putting. Maybe I am watching the mainstream creators though and haven’t found the good ones.

KomoD
No, I don't use tiktok or instagram.