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Show HN: Help me launch a weekly HN podcast

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[...] I'll bow out and sign the site over to someone more suitable. I want the show, not the glory - but I'll take the risk and get the ball rolling.

Love that you genuinely want to simply make this happen. You've got my ears.

Other podcasts I've found so far to fill the void:

* This Developer's Life - http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/this-developers-life/id38...

* Pragmatic Programmers - http://pragprog.com/podcasts

* Stack Overflow - http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/

* Teach Me to Code - http://teachmetocode.com/podcast/

* SO request for podcasts - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2149537/recommendations-f...

Thanks. Some great listening there, some that I've listened too, and others that are new.

I think this is a great idea. One suggestion would be a process for nominating or voting on speakers from the HN community. If you send someone an email saying you've got 100 people who've said they would love to hear them do a podcast, that could be a great way to get them involved. It could be nice to have a mix of regulars who do well and guests (especially guests who have some relevance to a big story from that week).

Thanks for working on this!

yes, this is too a great idear. Or ask HNers directly during podcasting.

I am more attracted to the idea that it’s simply based on HN activity, without a separate vote. Decide on the # of guests, say 2-3, go down the list of top stories, and reach out to the OP’s until there is a “quorum” of those who agree to participate.

I think a method like this would be more likely to expose lesser-known folks.

My current favorite podcast: TechZing Live - http://techzinglive.com

They discuss HN stories, but mostly talk very honestly about working on their startups and have great interviews with people like Patrick Collison (Stripe founder), Anthony Goldbloom & Jeremy Howard (Kaggle founders), Alex MacCaw, etc.

Just please, please, please, don't BS in an unscripted manner for the first 5 minutes. Get to the meat.

Great point. I get that people want to inject some personality, but listener's time is precious and there's enough "what did you have for breakfast" shows out there! I like podcasts which leave the chitchat to the pros and let their personality and views shine through the content you're covering. (With the exception of those where they can actually pull off banter and comedy well. IMO The Verge is one such podcast.)

Seconded. Roberts at EconTalk is a great model for how to avoid this.

I absolutely agree with this. Hopefully with different guests each week it becomes easier to start with who people are, rather than some inane nonsense.

This could definitely be an interesting podcast. My only bit of feedback is that the chosen topics seem to be the events and topics that have already been discussed to death already. How are the featured topics being decided upon?

There have been some other very interesting topics I'm sure people would like at least an overview of within the week you based the outline on. There have even been some Show HN posts with peak scores higher than the Instagram acquisition. If this is going to be an HN based podcast I think it'd be very important to include some things like this directly from our community.

Here is a list of the top posts from week 2 of april, and week 3 (this week) http://postheat.com/top/hacker_news/

Happy to see this. A couple of previous round-up threads here shows there's plenty listeners in this community.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580367

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406319

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565140

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839438

Would love to get involved in some way, will drop you a line.

Good idea. Half an hour on 3 different subjects may not be the right format. I'd rather listen to ONE subject I am interested in for 20 minutes with the right participants, than 3 subjects with less depth and less relevant members.

In case there are any people understanding German and are looking for a podcast: Me and a few friends run "binärgewitter":

http://blog.binaergewitter.de/

It's probably one of the technically more in-depth podcasts out there. It's a weekly mix of news and topics and usually covers the top x hacker news items seeing as we're all avid HN readers. It also sounds a bit unorganized and might not be politically correct from time to time, just a fair warning :)

This is really cool! Props

You might think about reaching out to @jason, I bet he'd love to partner on a "This Week in Hacker News" for the This Week In network. Who knows, it could turn into a real job.

Not tech related, but my favorite podcast is the LBP baby! Check it out - http://lifestylebusinesspodcast.com

I lose too much stories on HN, sometimes because of lack of time, sometimes because I check HN without paying attention. A podcast would be a great idea, I would be the first to subscribe. Too bad I can't help.

Best of luck!

Awesome! Social news podcasts are actually surprisingly interesting. I hosted 6 episodes of a Stumble Upon podcast like 6 years ago; we got a few hundred users or so before SU banned me for using their name in our title.

Great idea. Am not really opinionated nor a native English speaker, but couldn't wait to be a keen listener to the podcast if this take off :-)

Great idea! If I was a native speaker I would sign up for being a guest, but for now I think I will limit myself to listen to it :)

I'm looking forward to this. Thanks Alex!

Great initiative. Will definitely listen to this podcast. And I would reply if I was native English speaker.

I know this might be off topic, but can you please submit your podcast to the Zune market place too?

an earlier attempt at this was coder talk: http://codertalkshow.com/about/

For some reason I just didn't like listening to the first episodes, but those were largely recorded skype conversations.

I'm sure a show like this would fit in the 5by5 network (5by5.tv)?

I'd be happy to whip up an iOS/Android app to stream the episodes.

Good luck, followed on Twitter (I believe follower number 1).

Thanks. I've been doing nothing with this domain for months. This morning I finally got down to something and got this up. So many things that I could have procrastinated on but I thought I'd just get it up and out there.

That is a good idea. I'll listen to that podcast.

Great idea , looking forward to your podcast.

You are only a couch and some beer away from being the next Diggnation :P Seriously though, have you thought about instead of having a few guests talking about stories, make it open mic so everyone listening to the show could also participate, open mic style? That could be fun.

I'm also writing a tool that helps podcasters organize sound clips and coordinate broadcasting with multiple guests: https://github.com/jiakeliu/Cobra Please excuse the svn to git transfer mess, but maybe this tool would come in handy one day.

Best of luck!

Turntable.fm + Twilio voice api = Live panel chats, 3 minutes per person to speak, vote up or boo off.

By associating speakers with HN accounts, you could filter out below a certain karma. Not to make it a clique, but more to just stop junk callers to some extent. Not too sure what I think of the open concept, but thought I should point it out.

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