Making a Tech Podcast 101
About Me
- Fullstack Developer at a webagency
- 1.5 years exp+
- From Orlando
- Loves the outdoors
Reasons for podcasting!
- Fun and rewarding (cohost, guests, listeners)
- Learning by teaching
- Proof of knowledge
- First episode is up only on website
- 5 episodes recorded
- https://codechefs.dev
Cohosting?
- Fill in knowledge gaps
- Interesting, varied conversation to listener
Primary
Secondary
(for each speaker preferably)
Sound Hardware?
Sound Software?
Post Production, Equalization, Compression
Sound Recording
Screensharing, natural conversation, preplanning
Other Software
Logos, raw mp3 assets, shownotes
Pre planning communication
Freelancers for sound assets, logos, etc
Sound Intro/Outro
- <Example>
- Different Styles (ASMR, High Energy, 3rd person, etc)
- <30 seconds long
- Theme
- Free Media Commons License / can use these assets https://www.storyblocks.com/
Webhosting
Static Site Generators w/ RSS feed
(alternatives - Jekyl, Vuepress, Wordpress, etc)
Audio Hosting - 15 mB compressed for 20min
Free Hosting
(Add a custom domain name too)
Paid all in one solution, no work needed
(Cost $$$, can only customize so much)
PreWriting - Shownotes
Podcast Platforms
- Spotify
- Apple
- Google Play Music
- Google Podcasts
- Overcast.fm
- Pocketcasts
- Stitcher
- RSS Feeds XML (directly to spotify, apple)
Lessons Learned
- Take more shownotes than needed
- If two hosts, the same person should do intro
- Uhms and mouth breathing
- Write shownotes at least 1 day before recording
- Do as a weekly habit
- Do one take
- Talk about topic 20 mins before to warmup
- Make it fun!
TODO
- RSS Feed System
- Refine Audio Player
- S3 Bucket Config
- Marketing
Questions?
