Hit 500 subscribers on my retro game repair channel and it honestly feels like a bigger milestone than anything else

I started a YouTube channel back in April just to document me fixing old Game Boys and Nintendo DS systems. Nothing fancy, just me soldering and swapping screens in my garage. Hit 500 subs last week. I know that sounds tiny compared to the big channels but I started with zero and my first 5 videos got like 12 views each. Then one video about fixing a scratched DS Lite hinge randomly took off. Now I've got people commenting asking for advice and I've even had a guy from Ohio mail me his broken GBA to fix. For a hobby I started just to have an excuse to buy a heat gun it feels huge. Has anyone else hit a random number like that and had it feel way bigger than you expected?

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quinn_nguyen4d ago

That Ohio guy trusting you with his GBA what was that first remote repair like? Did you mess anything up or was it cleaner than your own stuff because you knew someone was watching? I'm curious if having a stake in someone else's hardware changes how careful you are.

grant_perry4d ago

Nah I gotta push back on that. 500 subs is cool don't get me wrong but it's not some huge milestone. You got 500 people to click a button. That's barely enough to fill a movie theater. The real test is when you actually make money or when someone offers you a real collab. Half those subs probably won't even watch your next video.