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What's a funny coincidence is that I've been thinking about almost exactly this for a little while. Just in the last two weeks I decided to create a podcast wh

What's a funny coincidence is that I've been thinking about almost exactly this for a little while. Just in the last two weeks I decided to create a podcast where I interview the exact types of developers who optimize SQL inside business apps. In fact, literally just last night I recorded and uploaded (to YouTube and the various podcast platforms) episode zero. Not an actual interview yet, but a statement of purpose and a placeholder so I can hopefully have a small audience on release day. (I'm hoping for about 50 subs by the time I launch the first) I was 100% not going to promote on HN until after I had at least 10 episodes published... but fundamentally it was born out of a desire to attempt to solve for the "unsexy" programmer. Anyway: https://youtu.be/9mmgfxSeqPA https://youtu.be/9mmgfxSeqPA Or you can search for "Ship It" on your favorite podcast platform. In terms of feedback, any and all is welcome, though I've got a personal preference for constructive feedback as opposed to just telling me that my stupid face looks really stupid. :)

watermelon0 6y ago
Sounds interesting. However, I already found two other podcasts with the same name. I have searched on Spotify and Castbox, but didn't find yours there.
- alexc05 6y ago
  Thanks! I've been able to find it on a few platforms so far, but I'm distributing via anchor.fm https://anchor.fm/ship-it https://anchor.fm/ship-it I'll have to find a way to differentiate my ship-it from others for people searching. I'll probably have to rename it, but in the short term I'm going to let it ride. Better to focus on quality interviews for now. (I think) Edit: I just looked over the emails that anchor sent me and some of them say it could take as much as a week for the first listing to appear. It's probably not showing up because it was like 1am last night when I finally hit the publish button on a non-test episode for the first time. I'll keep an eye on this though. Thanks. It's the exact type of hiccup that had me not wanting to self-promote before I had 10 episodes online.
  - alexc05 6y ago
    edit - per the other discussion in the thread I've gone with renaming the podcast to "LGTM: Shipit!" which will hopefully make it a little more discoverable. I don't expect as many people have the acronym for "Looks Good To Me" in their title, I removed the space in "Ship It" and hope that search engines trigger for both "shipit" and "ship it". What's more is that without the space it's even more true to the inspiration for the title ... which is the :shipit: emoji on github. https://anchor.fm/lgtm-shipit https://anchor.fm/lgtm-shipit
theshrike79 6y ago
Please don't start another podcast. Or if you absolutely must, please provide a text version of the content. Podcasts aren't searchable, they aren't skimmable and their content isn't indexed in search engines. Text is.
- ddulaney 6y ago
  On the other hand, podcasts can be listened to in the background, while text must be actively read. There are pros and cons to each format as a consumer, not to mention differences in production workflow.
  - gnzoidberg 6y ago
    Exactly
  - judge2020 6y ago
    To add, I think we should leave it to the machines to start indexing podcasts automatically. They're some of the easiest mediums for speech recognition and Google has been indexing YouTube transcripts for a few years now.
    - danielscrubs 6y ago
      They have been doing it badly for a few years know yes, it’s not solved by any stretch of the imagination.
      - chillfox 6y ago
        Sure, they keep getting some words wrong all the time, but it is likely good enough to get the general subject of what a podcast is about.
  - theshrike79 6y ago
    This is why most of the stuff I listen to as a podcast are just random factoids and trivia. (No Such Thing as A Fish, Cautionary Tales, 99pi, etc) If it's something I actually want to learn and retain, I prefer text so that I can go back, pause, skip etc as I please with an intuitive interface - my eyes =) The same thing with interviews of interesting people I may want to store quotes from. With text it's just C-c C-v to copy stuff to my notes. With audio I need to transcribe it by hand, which is tedious work.
CRConrad 6y ago
You've reached that intermediate goal: I'm your fiftieth subscriber.
chillfox 6y ago
Have you actually tried searching "Ship It" on a podcast platform? There is absolutely zero chance that I can find the correct one without knowing what the thumbnail looks like. Search results in order: - I Ship It - Ship It Show - We Ship It Podcast - The Ship-it Show - Print It and Ship It - Ship It or Skip It - I Can Ship It! - ... edit: I realized the above might sound a bit harsh. Sorry. Please do some branding to make the podcast easier to find. I was trying to find it in Overcast as I am actually interested in listening to it.
- alexc05 6y ago
  Not at all harsh! And super super valuable. So genuinely, thank you for this. SEO and discoverability are critical. It is abundantly clear to me that I've got to workshop the name. The categories are - "say-able" can a listener hear the name and find the right one without a spelling mistake? - is it unique enough to have a top slot search result? - does it explain what it's about in the title? - Would someone in the target audience instantly know what it was about if they saw it in a list of 800,000 podcasts? (The number of different pods out there according to a research report I read before deciding I still wanted to do it) "Ship it" is a reference to the thing they (sometimes) say on GitHub when your pull request is accepted. The icon has the "ship-it squirrel" I thought that was cut and referencial so people in the know would recognize it instantly. It also has a special place in my own heart because I first learned about it when a pull request I sent to one of the Microsoft as-net docker repos. In the version of the story I remember Scott Hanselman himself commented on the PR and said "lgtm :shipit:" Which on GitHub translates into a picture of a squirrel dressed up as a gangster. Based on the rules above I rename to "LGTM: the podcast about delivering code for professional programmers" Maybe just "LGTM - the programmer podcast" Thanks again. I'm going to work on it. Edit: or maybe I rename to "LGTM shipit"?
- alexc05 6y ago
  Note: I wanted to thank you again for these data points. I appreciate that you didn't have to put that effort in and I have now officially decided to go with "lgtm: shipit" And I even made an issue in the github repo to thank you for this effort. https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit/issues/15 https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit/issues/15 I expect this repo to be a really good place to write readmes, articles in the wiki, put the transcripts, if at some point I get enough money to pay github for LFS ... maybe I even upload the raw content? I have to think about that last bit because I'm considering just going with the MIT license so maybe I don't want my raw content released under MIT. Who knows? It seems a lot more appropriate to put a programmer-podcast into github than a wordpress blog.
ComodoHacker 6y ago
OK, you got me, as I've been in those trenches myself. Subscribed.
- alexc05 6y ago
  Thank you!

watermelon0 6y ago

Sounds interesting. However, I already found two other podcasts with the same name. I have searched on Spotify and Castbox, but didn't find yours there.

alexc05 6y ago
Thanks! I've been able to find it on a few platforms so far, but I'm distributing via anchor.fm https://anchor.fm/ship-it https://anchor.fm/ship-it I'll have to find a way to differentiate my ship-it from others for people searching. I'll probably have to rename it, but in the short term I'm going to let it ride. Better to focus on quality interviews for now. (I think) Edit: I just looked over the emails that anchor sent me and some of them say it could take as much as a week for the first listing to appear. It's probably not showing up because it was like 1am last night when I finally hit the publish button on a non-test episode for the first time. I'll keep an eye on this though. Thanks. It's the exact type of hiccup that had me not wanting to self-promote before I had 10 episodes online.
- alexc05 6y ago
  edit - per the other discussion in the thread I've gone with renaming the podcast to "LGTM: Shipit!" which will hopefully make it a little more discoverable. I don't expect as many people have the acronym for "Looks Good To Me" in their title, I removed the space in "Ship It" and hope that search engines trigger for both "shipit" and "ship it". What's more is that without the space it's even more true to the inspiration for the title ... which is the :shipit: emoji on github. https://anchor.fm/lgtm-shipit https://anchor.fm/lgtm-shipit

theshrike79 6y ago

Please don't start another podcast. Or if you absolutely must, please provide a text version of the content. Podcasts aren't searchable, they aren't skimmable and their content isn't indexed in search engines. Text is.

ddulaney 6y ago
On the other hand, podcasts can be listened to in the background, while text must be actively read. There are pros and cons to each format as a consumer, not to mention differences in production workflow.
- gnzoidberg 6y ago
  Exactly
- judge2020 6y ago
  To add, I think we should leave it to the machines to start indexing podcasts automatically. They're some of the easiest mediums for speech recognition and Google has been indexing YouTube transcripts for a few years now.
  - danielscrubs 6y ago
    They have been doing it badly for a few years know yes, it’s not solved by any stretch of the imagination.
    - chillfox 6y ago
      Sure, they keep getting some words wrong all the time, but it is likely good enough to get the general subject of what a podcast is about.
- theshrike79 6y ago
  This is why most of the stuff I listen to as a podcast are just random factoids and trivia. (No Such Thing as A Fish, Cautionary Tales, 99pi, etc) If it's something I actually want to learn and retain, I prefer text so that I can go back, pause, skip etc as I please with an intuitive interface - my eyes =) The same thing with interviews of interesting people I may want to store quotes from. With text it's just C-c C-v to copy stuff to my notes. With audio I need to transcribe it by hand, which is tedious work.

CRConrad 6y ago

You've reached that intermediate goal: I'm your fiftieth subscriber.

chillfox 6y ago

Have you actually tried searching "Ship It" on a podcast platform? There is absolutely zero chance that I can find the correct one without knowing what the thumbnail looks like. Search results in order: - I Ship It - Ship It Show - We Ship It Podcast - The Ship-it Show - Print It and Ship It - Ship It or Skip It - I Can Ship It! - ... edit: I realized the above might sound a bit harsh. Sorry. Please do some branding to make the podcast easier to find. I was trying to find it in Overcast as I am actually interested in listening to it.

alexc05 6y ago
Not at all harsh! And super super valuable. So genuinely, thank you for this. SEO and discoverability are critical. It is abundantly clear to me that I've got to workshop the name. The categories are - "say-able" can a listener hear the name and find the right one without a spelling mistake? - is it unique enough to have a top slot search result? - does it explain what it's about in the title? - Would someone in the target audience instantly know what it was about if they saw it in a list of 800,000 podcasts? (The number of different pods out there according to a research report I read before deciding I still wanted to do it) "Ship it" is a reference to the thing they (sometimes) say on GitHub when your pull request is accepted. The icon has the "ship-it squirrel" I thought that was cut and referencial so people in the know would recognize it instantly. It also has a special place in my own heart because I first learned about it when a pull request I sent to one of the Microsoft as-net docker repos. In the version of the story I remember Scott Hanselman himself commented on the PR and said "lgtm :shipit:" Which on GitHub translates into a picture of a squirrel dressed up as a gangster. Based on the rules above I rename to "LGTM: the podcast about delivering code for professional programmers" Maybe just "LGTM - the programmer podcast" Thanks again. I'm going to work on it. Edit: or maybe I rename to "LGTM shipit"?
alexc05 6y ago
Note: I wanted to thank you again for these data points. I appreciate that you didn't have to put that effort in and I have now officially decided to go with "lgtm: shipit" And I even made an issue in the github repo to thank you for this effort. https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit/issues/15 https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit/issues/15 I expect this repo to be a really good place to write readmes, articles in the wiki, put the transcripts, if at some point I get enough money to pay github for LFS ... maybe I even upload the raw content? I have to think about that last bit because I'm considering just going with the MIT license so maybe I don't want my raw content released under MIT. Who knows? It seems a lot more appropriate to put a programmer-podcast into github than a wordpress blog.

ComodoHacker 6y ago

OK, you got me, as I've been in those trenches myself. Subscribed.

alexc05 6y ago
Thank you!