Podcast Episodes

Forgetting My Mission [Day 15 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 15

The first real dip in my downloads was my own doing. I went from talking to a very specific developer niche, to business owners in that niche, to bus…

13 hours ago

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Why How I Built It Worked [Day 14 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 14

For a long time I couldn't work out why How I Built It took off, and a few people insisted I was just riding NPR's coattails. The download graph said…

1 day, 13 hours ago

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How I Got My First Sponsors [Day 13 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 13

My first sponsor landed before episode one even dropped. Someone emailed asking to trade backlinks, I told them I don't do that but I did have a podc…

2 days, 13 hours ago

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How I Chose My Guests [Day 12 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 12

My early guest list came straight out of my own orbit — Jason Coleman first, then Rebecca Gill, Brian Krogsgard, Corey Miller, Carrie Dils — and my f…

3 days, 13 hours ago

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Is Video a Dumpster Fire for Podcasting?

Season 7 Episode 12

Eric Nuzum wrote a piece arguing that podcasting's pivot to video is going to end in a charred mess of garbage fire wreckage, and I think he's mostly…

4 days, 13 hours ago

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The Tools I Launched With in 2016 [Day 11 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 11

The 2016 stack, as best I remember it: Skype for the call with video on so I could read body language, Ecamm Call Recorder capturing the Skype audio,…

4 days, 13 hours ago

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The Five Questions Behind How I Built It [Day 10 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 10

How I Built It was a short interview show — 30 minutes at most — built on the same five questions every time, ending with "do you have any trade secr…

5 days, 13 hours ago

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Log Your Ideas [Day 9 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 9

I bought the domain howibuilt.it on my honeymoon in Italy, purely because every site I saw there had a .it address and I wanted one. The idea arrived…

6 days, 13 hours ago

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Learn From Others [Day 8 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 8

Going on ShopTalk Show with Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert around 2013 changed how I made podcasts. They had a guest notes page explaining how to get t…

1 week ago

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Serve an Audience [Day 7 30 Days of Podcast Notes]

Season 8 Episode 7

The TIL Podcast failed because I wasn't serving anybody. The technical barriers are gone — you can record from your phone, and RSS.com has a free hos…

1 week, 1 day ago

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