So excited!

I just unleashed the hounds of Patreon. You can find my campaign here: patreon.com/christianbuchert. Go, Patreon hounds! Go flush those elusive currency birds from their hiding places!

Here's how it really happened. Coming up on a year ago, got frustrated with the free video training content I was finding, so I decided to start producing my own. My goal was to make them get right to the point, with no obnoxious intro videos and no patronizing preambles prior to delivering the actual tutorial material. Since then, I've had something close to a quarter million views, over a thousand subscribers, years worth of time spent watching my videos, and an overwhelming amount of positive feedback. I'm super stoked to be giving this a shot.

I decided to do the Patreon campaign for a few reasons. The primary reason is that I really want to keep making videos, but I can't afford to use so much of my time producing content and maintaining the channel. A secondary reason is to help me feel like my time is being well spent when I produce videos on content that feels important but probably won't drive big viewing numbers. My life basically boils down to a game of numbers. My hope is that with patron support I will be able to devote more of my time to producing high quality video content.

So what do patrons receive for their patronage you ask? Beyond my gratitude and absolution for the sin of eliminating the ads I have used to monetize my channel through products like Adblock Plus, they get progressively more visibility and input on the content I produce. Beyond those guys, there's also an option to emotionally underwrite a video. I honestly can't see myself or anyone else ever donating three thousand bucks for a single video, but if they do I intend to live up to the reward in every way. My wife and I are budding connoisseurs of world class fine foods and I intend to deliver.

I'm working on shaking things up in my current video format a bit, making smaller videos that are more situation specific rather than longer videos that try to cover multiple things with the goal of matching my audience's attention span (about 5 minutes before they watch something else). I'm still interested in producing the longer videos, but I want to add the bite sized option for those looking for something specific as well.

In terms of software I would like to cover in the next year, here's what I'm thinking.

• AutoCAD 2016 new features
• Solidworks
• Onshape
• Inventor
• NX
• PTC Creo
• Microstation
• Revit
• ArchiCAD (Maybe. We'll see on this one.)
• SketchUp

The goal is ambitious given the amount of material, but I'm stoked to get it planned out and give it a shot.

Onwards and upwards.