Writing
Andy Balaam
@andybalaamTracked since May 2026
creating Programming Videos.
Observed Aug 23, 2026Public earnings
Paid members
1
0% · 30-day rate from 11 observed days
Total audience
4
incl. free followers
Observed monthly earnings
$1
Starting price
$1/mo
5 membership tiers
Where the 4 observed tier members sit
Membership tiers$075%$125%
Largest observed tier is $0 Free. Tier totals include free-tier members and come from the Aug 23, 2026 public snapshot, so they do not reconcile to the paid-member total.
$0/moFree375% of observed tier members
$1/moThank you125% of observed tier members
$5/moTier00% of observed tier members
$10/moTier00% of observed tier members
$100/moTier00% of observed tier members
Growth signals: Andy Balaam
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Membership1 paid members · 30-day rate from 11 observed days
121
May 202616 weeks trackedNow
Andy Balaam1 members · $1/mo
The chart only uses Andy Balaam's observed public history. Comparison peers are listed below, but comparable trend series are not available yet.
Where Andy Balaam ranks
Creator comparisonsCompare within
#88 of 9 cohort creators measured
Total audience in Content & vibe cohort
A fixed cohort with the strongest public profile, tier, and post-preview similarity. Changing the rank metric does not change who belongs in this cohort.
8 of 9 cohort creators have a measured total audience; the other 1 remains unranked for this metric.| Rank | Creator and why included | Total audience | Gap vs Andy Balaam | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4 |  8-Bit Show And TellWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity | 427 | 423 more | Aug 22, 2026 |
| #5 |  Al SweigartWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity | 162 | 158 more | Aug 15, 2026 |
| #6 |  AngelSixWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity | 57 | 53 more | Aug 23, 2026 |
| #7 |  Al's Geek LabWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity | 38 | 34 more | Aug 23, 2026 |
| #8 |  Andy BalaamProfileWritingTotal audience position in Content & vibe cohort | 4 | Reference | Aug 23, 2026 |
The rank uses the full fixed cohort. This table shows up to five creators around Andy Balaam; the coverage summary above still counts everyone.
Recent posts
What they publish147Profile posts0 postsLast month16.7%Members-only
Previews available for 25 of 147 posts
Article Latest postPublicCode your first game: Snake in JavaScript (on Raspberry Pi)We are going to code a whole game! No experience required: I will try to walk you through absolutely everything, and I will type in every single line of code to write a snake game.
Oct 12, 2020 0 likes 0 commentsCoding a tiny game in JavaScriptAndy live-streams coding a tiny game (well, not really a game at all) in very simple JavaScript, using Smolpxl, which is some helper code that makes it really simple to make a little retro game. Play games and make your own at https://smolpxl.artificialworlds.net !ImageSep 17, 2020Public 0 0React ConceptsFeb 13, 2020ArticleFeb 13, 2020$1 tier & up 0 0KotlinJS: First impressions (formed by writing Snake)Andy Balaam shares his experience of writing a snake game using Kotlin and compiling it to JavaScript to make a web site (KotlinJS).ArticleNov 30, 2019Public 0 0Examples of Kotlin making java code betterOct 11, 2019ArticleOct 11, 2019$1 tier & up 0 0Dependency Injection frameworks: reasons to avoid themDI frameworks were written to solve real problems and work very well, but I prefer to avoid using them. I will try to explain why, and also how I try to structure my projects to avoid those problems arising in the first place.ArticleOct 11, 2019Public 0 0Python Async basics video (100 million HTTP requests)How I made 100 million HTTP requests in a single thread with Python. I go over the basic concepts that are used to write asynchronous Python code. Once I got my head around them, writing the code we reasonably straightforward, but but I got my head around them it was very confusing! More info: https://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2019/02/26/python-async-basics-video-100-million-http-requests/VideoFeb 26, 2019Public 0 0Interesting Characters (UTF-16, utf-8, Unicode, encodings)Andy shares the excitement he feels about actually properly understanding how character encoding works, and what the words mean (e.g. octet, code unit, code point).ArticleNov 24, 2018Public 0 0Elm makes me happy (updated for Elm 0.19)Andy Balaam tells you why Elm, the front-end programming language makes him happy: it's immediate, clean, frustrating and rewarding.ArticleNov 9, 2018Public 0 0Godot: making new objects at runtime (instancing)Andy continues making a game in the Godot 3 game engine, by showing how to make new copies of an object while the game is running. The trick is to convert the object to a scene, then load the scene in your code and call .instance().ArticleNov 9, 2018Public 0 0Godot: Drag-and-drop of physics objectsAndy continues his adventure making a game in the Godot 3 game engine by allowing you to drag and drop objects that are also being affected by gravity and collisions in the physics engine.ArticleNov 7, 2018Public 0 0Godot: 2D shapes bouncing off each otherSome things Andy learned about how to make 2D shapes that collide and bounce off each other in the Godot game engine, which makes it pretty easy to get a game up-and-running. More info: http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2018/11/06/godot-2d-shapes-bouncing-off-each-other-video/VideoNov 6, 2018Public 0 0
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