Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?
If there&#x27;s ever a time to ask such a question, it might be this thread.<p>Can I get some brutally honest feedback on a podcast I ran for 2 years (100+ episodes at once per week) at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runninginproduction.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runninginproduction.com&#x2F;</a>? It&#x27;s a podcast focused on chatting with developers around how they build and deploy their web apps. It mostly focuses on the &quot;why&quot;, tech stack choices, libraries, workflows, lessons learned, production war stories, etc..<p>In my mind I thought it was a good idea but it got so little listeners that I had to abort recording new episodes due to burn out since there was no path forward to ever sustain it by outsourcing the burn out inducing parts. I still think it&#x27;s a good idea but I wonder where I went wrong.<p>I tried everything I could think of. Guest variety from solo devs to bigger companies like Mux and Dropbox, audio editing to ensure the highest quality I could get for a remote guest&lt;-&gt;host podcast with new guests having assorted mic qualities, removing a lot of &quot;ums&quot; and other fluff but not over editing things to make it unnatural, tags to quickly find tech stacks you care about and a ton of clickable timestamps with a summary of each show that&#x27;s skimmable in seconds along with tons of reference links.<p>On paper it feels like I did everything I could to make things &quot;good&quot;, but in practice after 100 episodes I had like 200-300 listens per episode which made it no longer viable to continue doing since each episode was about 6 hours of end to end time to put together (finding a guest, editing it, show notes, etc.).<p>I learned a ton from chatting with every guest and regret nothing but I overall see the podcast as a total failure since if it didn&#x27;t gain any traction on it, it must be trash. I&#x27;d love to revive the show because chatting with someone new about what they enjoy working on was really fun.