005 — Pressing Publish

All Play w/ Ryan Hefner

In this episode I reflect on officially hitting publish on this podcast. The steps that lead up to the release, along with all the excitement and anxiety that builds up before pressing that button.

From creating the cover art, to settling on the format—or lack there of—to writing descriptions, and deciding whether or not to pay the extra $5/month to Transistor for the AI Transcriptions feature vs. rolling my own (note, I just paid the $5, but may explore some other ideas with custom transcripts on the site, since after playing with the different output options it got the brain gears turnings). Basically, all the stuff that went into launching this.

Here are a few additional things that were on that launch list:

• Audio quality (via Adobe Audition + custom presets to make the audio sound better)
• Newsletter sign-up form
• Webhooks to refresh the site when new episodes are published
• Sitemap
• `og:image`’s

Along with some other outstanding stuff that I will be pushing to the site soon:

• Welcome email (for newsletter subscribers)
• Newsletters (sign up so you will start receiving these once they start going out)
• Standardize copy/words for how I reference what this is
• Tweak site metadata and SEO stuff

It definitely feels exciting to start seeing it in the various podcatcher sites and apps, and looking forward to talking about all the other stuff I have in the works. Until next time!

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