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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
by 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"?