Ask HN: Can you earn full time living from YouTube

With that? Probably not. That girl who unboxes toys does pretty well. And Mr. Beast makes money. You need mass market type content to get mass market money.

If you write software, like I do, that job itself is probably going to be your top income earning skill.

If you write software, make howto videos using those developer tools and show how it is done.

I think building a YouTube audience is more about directing users to the things that make you money rather than the ad revenue itself. That might be Amazon affiliate links, referrals, your own products or courses, etc.

Marc Lou is a good software example. He's basically advertising his boilerplate through his YouTube videos.

i always wondered, how much is 1 view/like/subscribe? everybody seems desperate to get one of those

The reason YouTubers want those is that, with enough subscribers, you are able to monetize. You need 1,000 subscribers[0] and 4,000 watch hours over the last year to collect your portion of the ad revenue.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851?hl=en&ref_to...