New for $5 Backers: Behind-the-Scenes Videos

Hi all,

We are sharing this first behind-the-scenes video to all Patreon supporters. We have recently received a lot of interest in behind-the-scenes videos. I'm excited to take this task and start giving a better inside look at GN, and I feel like the Patreon backers deserve it -- especially now that you've helped us grow so much. Pre-emptively: sorry, shot this vertically. I don't do cell phone videos, and didn't even think about it. Will get that right next time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UhIjr6OrsE

The current challenges to fulfilling this demand are as follows:

- YouTube only really supports up to 1 video per day. We already do that. Going beyond 1 video per day means flooding/spamming the platform and algorithm, and likely reducing our views overall. We have to avoid this challenge.

- There is a physical limit to how many hours are in a week, and I cannot physically work any more than I already do -- but I really want to do these "BTS" videos.

- Andrew, our main video guy, is already very busy with all our other projects, so I don't want to add to his workload.

The Solution:

I am going to shoot these from my cell phone -- inspired a bit by LTT's FP Exclusive videos -- and set goals to: (1) Not detract time from our existing, important content that you all support, (2) not increase workload of my team in a significant way.

To do this, I will be shooting these alone, and will likely do them after the team is done working for the day. We will post these at no known interval, but I am going to target ~2-4 per month, for now. 

We will be releasing these to Patreon backers of $5 and up only for at least 1 week early. After that point, we will either: (1) leave the videos permanently unlisted, e.g. you get exclusive content, (2) send some live to the main channel, (3) send some live to the GNSteve side-channel. What we do with the videos after Patreon-only access will depend on if we think they had something worth sending out to the core audience. This first video, for example, will likely remain Patreon-exclusive. If we ever share it publicly, it'll be on the side-channel, and only after a week or more has passed. If we filmed some super cool "behind-the-scenes wind tunnel build log," for example, we'd probably share that publicly at some point -- it just depends.

We will not place ads into these BTS videos.

This post will go public in 7 days, just so everyone knows our plans!

- Steve.