one year ago, i posted this video and it changed the trajectory of my life 🥹 i had around 10k followers on instagram when replit reached out about a sponsorship. in the video, i built a pixel ipod that connected to spotify and played music. i was working at amazon, so i'd come home after work, it would already be dark out, and i'd spend my evenings building, filming, and editing this video. the social team at replit liked it enough to book me for 6 more videos. at the time, i was feeling really burnt out from my job. but making these videos and sharing the process of building something was giving me so much joy. it made me start seriously considering what i could do outside of software engineering. so i reached out for a referral to a devrel role. and the rest is history 🤭 moral of the story: post cool shit online!