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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 thu

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.
- chillfox 6y ago
  Cool, I have subscribed. You should probably also add it to Apple podcasts. (edit: I added it as an issue on github) About using the Github wiki for articles, I think you would be better off having the actual content on your own domain. It will give you more flexibility down the line for monetization or just moving things around.

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.

chillfox 6y ago
Cool, I have subscribed. You should probably also add it to Apple podcasts. (edit: I added it as an issue on github) About using the Github wiki for articles, I think you would be better off having the actual content on your own domain. It will give you more flexibility down the line for monetization or just moving things around.