Selling Your Weird Mouth Noises

Podcasts seem super easy at first blush - after all, everyone seems to have their own show these days. Turns out it's pretty tough to publish quality content day after day while working full-time as designers and developers at startups. But, sometimes it's worth the extra effort.

In this talk, Bryn tells the story of taking Spec Network from 0 to 500,000 downloads per month, building an active community of almost 5,000 designers and developers, making financial decisions for your friends, and how obsessively building tiny failed side projects can lead directly to building big successful ones.

Transcript

1. selling your weird mouth noises
3. who am i?
5. designer
6. ✨
9. what is spec?
11. @kaushikgopal @donnfelker @paulstraw @seanwashbot @soffes @calebd @jcutrell @marshallbock @sortino @sarahberus @jakemarsh @brian_lovin
12. so… it’s a podcast network?
13. a tale of two dummies
16. Mvsic
17. Mvsic
19. V V
21. solve a problem
22. mix utility with delight
28. be there when you're expected to be
29. start small, iterate quickly
35. invest in quality
38. what makes us successful?
45. what’s so hard about podcasts?
46. what’s so hard about podcasts?
51. diversity
52. @kaushikgopal @donnfelker @paulstraw @seanwashbot @soffes @calebd @jcutrell @marshallbock @sortino @sarahberus @jakemarsh @brian_lovin
53. should i start a podcast?
54. should my podcast join a network?
55. any tips?
60. @uberbryn