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I listened to quite a few of your episodes. One piece of feedback though, I always felt the episode titles could have been better. More like https://www.indie

I listened to quite a few of your episodes. One piece of feedback though, I always felt the episode titles could have been better. More like https://www.indiehackers.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/ Where the title was some like “X person company generates Y revenue with Z tech”. The main difference being, it gave me a reason to listen (sparked my interests because 1-person is generating $100,000s with a simple PHP form app”. As opposed to “Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps” which just sounds like an ad for their app. Another subtle suggestion, the date of the episode wasn’t visible from the main feed - making it difficult to see if any new episodes have dropped. Sorry to hear you considered it a failure. I really enjoyed it.

nickjj 4y ago
Thanks a lot. I'm seeing a trend in quite a few comments that are leading me to see that the titles can be much approved upon. That one does read a lot like an ad. For most titles I tried to lead with the service name plus what they do in 70 characters or less. I tried to focus more on what the service does because I figured most folks wouldn't know what these services are, but if you know what it does it might help you relate to something in your own mind based on a rough idea of "this will be about an invoicing service or an email campaign service, etc.". But, if I do step back and reflect on my own browsing habits for not just podcasts but also YouTube. It comes down to the title. Always. It's an interesting problem in this context. The suggestions here are to mainly make the titles optimized for humans (which I agree with too), but I'm not sure if that will help with gaining traction because the site is already nearly invisible on Google and podcast sites. With that said though, after 2 years and a 100 titles in their current state, my original plan is clearly not working so I have nothing to lose to switch up that strategy. Although I'm not sure if I should go back and change all of the existing titles (they are also tied into the URL on a static site, etc.).
xet7 4y ago
> The main difference being, it gave me a reason to listen (sparked my interests because 1-person is generating $100,000s with a simple PHP form app”. That's kind of clickbait topic? > As opposed to “Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps” which just sounds like an ad for their app. That interview is long high quality podcast with a lot of very interesting information to me. I'm in target audience, developing software with Meteor. And it really is not required for every company to describe exact financials.

nickjj 4y ago

Thanks a lot. I'm seeing a trend in quite a few comments that are leading me to see that the titles can be much approved upon. That one does read a lot like an ad. For most titles I tried to lead with the service name plus what they do in 70 characters or less. I tried to focus more on what the service does because I figured most folks wouldn't know what these services are, but if you know what it does it might help you relate to something in your own mind based on a rough idea of "this will be about an invoicing service or an email campaign service, etc.". But, if I do step back and reflect on my own browsing habits for not just podcasts but also YouTube. It comes down to the title. Always. It's an interesting problem in this context. The suggestions here are to mainly make the titles optimized for humans (which I agree with too), but I'm not sure if that will help with gaining traction because the site is already nearly invisible on Google and podcast sites. With that said though, after 2 years and a 100 titles in their current state, my original plan is clearly not working so I have nothing to lose to switch up that strategy. Although I'm not sure if I should go back and change all of the existing titles (they are also tied into the URL on a static site, etc.).

xet7 4y ago

> The main difference being, it gave me a reason to listen (sparked my interests because 1-person is generating $100,000s with a simple PHP form app”. That's kind of clickbait topic? > As opposed to “Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps” which just sounds like an ad for their app. That interview is long high quality podcast with a lot of very interesting information to me. I'm in target audience, developing software with Meteor. And it really is not required for every company to describe exact financials.