Actually goated advice. When I got a new phone in December I never installed studio and it's much better
Delete YouTube Studio off your phone.
The single biggest thing holding you back is the obsession with checking your numbers every hour.
You post a video. You check the views 20 minutes later. They are low. You panic. You start second guessing the title, the thumbnail, the topic. You post less. You overthink more. The channel slows down.
This is the loop that kills channels. Not the algorithm.
Here is the truth: A video that is going to blow up does not always blow up on day one. Sometimes it takes a week. Sometimes a month. Sometimes six months. YouTube is not TikTok. Videos compound over time. The algorithm finds the right audience slowly, then all at once.
Checking every hour does not change the outcome. It just makes you anxious enough to quit before the outcome arrives.
The creators who build the biggest channels are not the ones refreshing their analytics every 20 minutes. They are the ones posting consistently, ignoring the noise, and trusting the process long enough for it to actually work.
Check your analytics once a day. Look for patterns, not spikes. Use the data to make better decisions, not to validate whether you should keep going.
Delete the app. Go make another video.