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Hit Reply – Episode 0: Yet Another Startup Podcast? [audio]

44 points by fredrivett 10y ago

fredrivett 10y ago
Hey all, Super excited (and only a tad nervous) to announce our new podcast, Hit Reply Hit Reply is a new show that gives you an inside view on what it's like to start a startup. We will be sharing the lessons we've learnt going from 5 years of working on side projects, with ZERO launches as a result, to now having launched 9 separate side projects in the past 2 years. Having now learnt how to launch (and written a book about it: http://learningtolaunch.co/ http://learningtolaunch.co/), we're now focussed on starting an actual, bootstrapped startup. The podcast will be charting that journey. Nice and short, with the episodes under 20 minutes. We'd love to hear your thoughts, just Hit Reply and let us know :) p.s. We send a small weekly email with each episode every Tuesday, you can sign up on our site if interested: https://hitreply.co/ https://hitreply.co/
- giarc 10y ago
  Under 20 minutes is awesome. Sometimes podcasts are way too long. 20 minutes forces you to just talk about the most important things.
  - fredrivett 10y ago
    Agreed giarc! Our favourite podcasts are short and to the point, we think this works best for everyone :)
- user202020 10y ago
  Really looking forward to this! Happy to have found it from the start!
cushychicken 10y ago
Related: if anyone hasn't listened to the first season of Gimlet's "Startup" yet, it's excellent. Former host of NPR's "Planet Money" records all the hard parts of starting his own podcast production company. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/1-how-not-to-pitch-a-billionaire/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/1-how-not-to-pitch-a-billion... I liked season one more than season two because I felt that the Dating Ring founders were a little more guarded about their vulnerabilities and shortcomings, whereas Alex laid it all on the line. (YMMV on this opinion.)
- fredrivett 10y ago
  Totally agree CC. That is probably my all time favourite podcast, just ahead of Serial, and Justin Jacksons MegaMaker https://serialpodcast.org/season-one https://serialpodcast.org/season-one http://megamaker.co/ http://megamaker.co/
  - cushychicken 10y ago
    Never heard of MegaMaker. I'll check that out. Thanks for the tip.
  - stevenwiles 10y ago
    Holy crap! you and cc are like my internet heroes! its so awesome seeing both of you in the same place! I love you guys!!
    - cushychicken 10y ago
      ...I'm an internet hero?
- haraball 10y ago
  Season one and two were great! Too bad the third season got swamped in commercials and irrelevant stories. Wish I could pay to avoid the insane amounts of commercials that makes many promising podcasts unlistenable!
  - magic_beans 10y ago
    Season three was my favorite of all the seasons! I thought it was much more interesting to learn about non-tech small businesses.
  - cushychicken 10y ago
    Hm, haven't gotten to the third season yet. Been too swamped with extracurriculars to sit and listen to a podcast. :)
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zapt02 10y ago
Would love to subscribe but it's not showing up in Pocket Casts... Where can I find the RSS feed?
- fredrivett 10y ago
  Hey Zapt02. Great to hear you want to subscribe! We literally launched yesterday and haven't got it out there on the different platforms yet. There are two options here: 1. We send out a really small, simple weekly email with the podcast episode in. You can subscribe on the homepage: http://hitreply.co/ http://hitreply.co/ 2. We're on Soundcloud, so you can follow us there: https://soundcloud.com/hitreply/episode-0-yet-another-startup-podcast https://soundcloud.com/hitreply/episode-0-yet-another-startu... 3. We're on Twitter and will announce when we've got the platforms (itunes, overcast, etc.) up and running. http://twitter.com/hitreplypod http://twitter.com/hitreplypod
  - renolc 10y ago
    An RSS feed will "get it out there on different platforms" for you. You won't have to do anything else, except submit that feed to the different aggregators (iTunes being the largest). I'm glad SoundCloud at least seems to generate a feed, because the content sounds interesting. But if I were forced to use SoundCloud themselves, I would never actually be able to listen to your podcast. I don't want to install another app, and listening through a mobile browser sounds like a nightmare. Emails are also a no go, because this is a solved problem. There are apps and ecosystems already built around subscribing and listening to podcasts. Having yours outside of that ecosystem is a hinderance to adoption. EDIT: And PocketCasts seems to be rejecting the SoundCloud generated RSS. So I guess I'll have to wait for a real one before I can subscribe.
    - jayfk 10y ago
      Same with overcast.
      - fredrivett 10y ago
_raoulcousins 10y ago
Please, can podcast creators set up an RSS feed when they release their initial episode? And not the RSS feed through Soundcloud, that's just enough effort to get to and copy into my podcatcher that I'm not going to do it. I subscribe to tons of podcasts and will give anything a shot if I can subscribe in the few seconds it takes to do it directly through a podcatcher.
- fredrivett 10y ago
  Hey you're right Raoul. We missed a trick here, but honestly didn't expect to be up here on the homepage here just yet! Next biggest priority is to sort this out. In the meantime, here's our Soundcloud RSS. http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:245437295/sounds.rss http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:245437295...
  - fredrivett 10y ago
    So I just hacked in a super obvious link to the RSS feed on the page. https://hitreply.co/ep/0/yet-another-startup-podcast/ https://hitreply.co/ep/0/yet-another-startup-podcast/ Hope that helps!
    - AjithAntony 10y ago
      Might be useful to link this on the front page too. Also, I usually do a "<ctrl-f> rss" to try to find a link when it doesn't show up in Pocketcasts.
desireco42 10y ago
I listen through PocketCasts, you really need to get this to show there.
- desireco42 10y ago
  For your info, I have like 60-70 podcasts there, imagine if I have them all bookmarked somewhere and I go to different bookmark to check whether there are new episodes... Not happening :)

44 points by fredrivett 10y ago

Hey all, Super excited (and only a tad nervous) to announce our new podcast, Hit Reply Hit Reply is a new show that gives you an inside view on what it's like to start a startup. We will be sharing the lessons we've learnt going from 5 years of working on side projects, with ZERO launches as a result, to now having launched 9 separate side projects in the past 2 years. Having now learnt how to launch (and written a book about it: http://learningtolaunch.co/ http://learningtolaunch.co/), we're now focussed on starting an actual, bootstrapped startup. The podcast will be charting that journey. Nice and short, with the episodes under 20 minutes. We'd love to hear your thoughts, just Hit Reply and let us know :) p.s. We send a small weekly email with each episode every Tuesday, you can sign up on our site if interested: https://hitreply.co/ https://hitreply.co/

giarc 10y ago
Under 20 minutes is awesome. Sometimes podcasts are way too long. 20 minutes forces you to just talk about the most important things.
- fredrivett 10y ago
  Agreed giarc! Our favourite podcasts are short and to the point, we think this works best for everyone :)
user202020 10y ago
Really looking forward to this! Happy to have found it from the start!

cushychicken 10y ago

Related: if anyone hasn't listened to the first season of Gimlet's "Startup" yet, it's excellent. Former host of NPR's "Planet Money" records all the hard parts of starting his own podcast production company. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/1-how-not-to-pitch-a-billionaire/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/1-how-not-to-pitch-a-billion... I liked season one more than season two because I felt that the Dating Ring founders were a little more guarded about their vulnerabilities and shortcomings, whereas Alex laid it all on the line. (YMMV on this opinion.)

fredrivett 10y ago
Totally agree CC. That is probably my all time favourite podcast, just ahead of Serial, and Justin Jacksons MegaMaker https://serialpodcast.org/season-one https://serialpodcast.org/season-one http://megamaker.co/ http://megamaker.co/
- cushychicken 10y ago
  Never heard of MegaMaker. I'll check that out. Thanks for the tip.
- stevenwiles 10y ago
  Holy crap! you and cc are like my internet heroes! its so awesome seeing both of you in the same place! I love you guys!!
  - cushychicken 10y ago
    ...I'm an internet hero?
haraball 10y ago
Season one and two were great! Too bad the third season got swamped in commercials and irrelevant stories. Wish I could pay to avoid the insane amounts of commercials that makes many promising podcasts unlistenable!
- magic_beans 10y ago
  Season three was my favorite of all the seasons! I thought it was much more interesting to learn about non-tech small businesses.
- cushychicken 10y ago
  Hm, haven't gotten to the third season yet. Been too swamped with extracurriculars to sit and listen to a podcast. :)
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zapt02 10y ago

Would love to subscribe but it's not showing up in Pocket Casts... Where can I find the RSS feed?

fredrivett 10y ago
Hey Zapt02. Great to hear you want to subscribe! We literally launched yesterday and haven't got it out there on the different platforms yet. There are two options here: 1. We send out a really small, simple weekly email with the podcast episode in. You can subscribe on the homepage: http://hitreply.co/ http://hitreply.co/ 2. We're on Soundcloud, so you can follow us there: https://soundcloud.com/hitreply/episode-0-yet-another-startup-podcast https://soundcloud.com/hitreply/episode-0-yet-another-startu... 3. We're on Twitter and will announce when we've got the platforms (itunes, overcast, etc.) up and running. http://twitter.com/hitreplypod http://twitter.com/hitreplypod
- renolc 10y ago
  An RSS feed will "get it out there on different platforms" for you. You won't have to do anything else, except submit that feed to the different aggregators (iTunes being the largest). I'm glad SoundCloud at least seems to generate a feed, because the content sounds interesting. But if I were forced to use SoundCloud themselves, I would never actually be able to listen to your podcast. I don't want to install another app, and listening through a mobile browser sounds like a nightmare. Emails are also a no go, because this is a solved problem. There are apps and ecosystems already built around subscribing and listening to podcasts. Having yours outside of that ecosystem is a hinderance to adoption. EDIT: And PocketCasts seems to be rejecting the SoundCloud generated RSS. So I guess I'll have to wait for a real one before I can subscribe.
  - jayfk 10y ago
    Same with overcast.
    - fredrivett 10y ago

_raoulcousins 10y ago

Please, can podcast creators set up an RSS feed when they release their initial episode? And not the RSS feed through Soundcloud, that's just enough effort to get to and copy into my podcatcher that I'm not going to do it. I subscribe to tons of podcasts and will give anything a shot if I can subscribe in the few seconds it takes to do it directly through a podcatcher.

fredrivett 10y ago
Hey you're right Raoul. We missed a trick here, but honestly didn't expect to be up here on the homepage here just yet! Next biggest priority is to sort this out. In the meantime, here's our Soundcloud RSS. http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:245437295/sounds.rss http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:245437295...
- fredrivett 10y ago
  So I just hacked in a super obvious link to the RSS feed on the page. https://hitreply.co/ep/0/yet-another-startup-podcast/ https://hitreply.co/ep/0/yet-another-startup-podcast/ Hope that helps!
  - AjithAntony 10y ago
    Might be useful to link this on the front page too. Also, I usually do a "<ctrl-f> rss" to try to find a link when it doesn't show up in Pocketcasts.

desireco42 10y ago

I listen through PocketCasts, you really need to get this to show there.

desireco42 10y ago
For your info, I have like 60-70 podcasts there, imagine if I have them all bookmarked somewhere and I go to different bookmark to check whether there are new episodes... Not happening :)