PodGuest.me
Find great guests for your podcast.
I know this is a tiny milestone, but I'd like to document it nonetheless. Folks have continued to add themselves to the list on PodGuest.me, and it has now surpassed the 50 mark.
In the last few days I've worked on the following:
- Created a logo
- Added more categories to Interests
- Promoted the site on Twitter, IH, and Reddit
Next I'll be working on Open Graph and Twitter card to make the site look nicer when the link is shared.
At this point, 42 people have posted on PodGuest.me to make themselves available as guests for podcasts. I am grateful that is has been so well received.
Now the challenge is to figure out where to go next from here. I came up with the idea and built this thing so quickly that I didn't gave any thought to what I would do next. I'll be working on a roadmap and revenue model in the next few days/weeks.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set up time and scope constraints. I wanted to quickly put together an MVP built as simply as possible, with the least amount of custom code, minimal features, but functional.
So I set some constraints for myself to build the PodGuest.me MVP: Use just a few plain HTML pages, style with TailwindCSS loaded via CDN (no build setup, to save time), and embedded AirTable so I didn't have to code anything from scratch. No logo, no log in, no marketing page, no revenue model, not even analytics at this point. I just wanted to build the thing and release it into the wild.
I got it all to work in one day and released it into the world. The response was amazing! The first one to post on it was Justin Jackson, and then many others, including the legendary Mubs. I am grateful to all of them.
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I love the idea of setting really strict time limits. I’ll try it and see what I can get done by EoD Friday 😅
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Yes, it really helps. But you must reduce scope in order to be able to reduce time. Good luck! :D
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Nice work man. Complete is better than procrastination.
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Thank you, @one9ooh6!
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Great idea for a project!
A couple of design things to consider:
- On desktop, the 13px and 9px text is very small
- Also on desktop, the div with the list of interests cuts off at 152px width (e.g. "Development Marketi")
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Thank you, Shawn! And thank you for pointing out those design issues. It's currently a simple MVP put together with Airtable, so there's not much I can do about that at the moment. If there's enough interest in the service, then I'll design and code a custom solution. :)
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Ah ha...Airtable is one of those things I never got around to checking out so I didn't recognize the formatting. Thanks for explaining!
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I like the idea and love the speed of execution!
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Thank you, David!
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Great, added myself in :)
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Thank you, @rosiesherry! :)
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One way to come up with ideas for products, is to observe patterns in different markets/spaces. After reading a couple of posts from people asking to be considered as guests on podcasts, I thought maybe I should build a platform for that. At first it will be a simple listing service for people to list themselves as available to guest on podcasts.
The name came to me right away. I should call it PodGuest. The .com domain was taken, but .me was available. So I went ahead and purchased the domain PodGuest.me.
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Hey i just signed up to support a fellow indie hacker. How are you going to differentiate your site from others that have many more guests available
Thanks so much for the support! The honest answer is, I don't exactly know at this point. I'm just trying to grow awareness, increase the number of guests, and get some folks booked as guests. I have some ideas but it's work in progress. I'm working on figuring out a roadmap and a revenue model. I'm going to take it easy and go slow but hopefully steady, and we'll see what happens.
Hey, congrats! Yes, Open Graph and Twitter card are important. I remember reading @levelsio tweet some time ago where he mentioned something about having an image increases CTR by a huge percentage.
Anyway, good luck with PodGuest.me!
Thank you!! Yes, it definitely helps and it makes the site look more polished. It's been added now.