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The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

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Re: The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

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brnt wrote: post #10
I-M-S wrote: post #2

The Program audio series premiered on HN in June 2018 [1], followed by an official launch in November 2019 [2]. Since then the show received 135,000 downloads and was featured by Apple Podcasts in 6 countries. The community here was nothing but supportive (bberenberg just sponsored an episode by paying for audio equipment, and many other HN users are show patrons) so I am now trying to give back by posting transparen…

> The world of the Program is neither a utopia nor a dystopia, as the new system produced both winners and losers It is usually the intent of a systems designers and shapers to produce very specific winners and losers. I therefore don't quite see the causal connection this sentence implies. Will give the podcast a listen though, sounds interesting!

Chalk it up to difficulty of producing the desired outcome + second-order effects ^_^

Re: The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

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CharlesW wrote: post #13
mdoms wrote: post #12

Which one is it? https://imgur.com/a/KfGwZY1

The one titled "The Program audio series", with the artwork matching the artwork at programaudioseries.com.

Glad to see it at least at the bottom of that screenshot :)

Re: The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

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I-M-S wrote: post #11
brnt wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The world of the Program is neither a utopia nor a dystopia, as the new system produced both winners and losers It is usually the intent of a systems designers and shapers to produce very specific winners and losers. I therefore don't quite see the causal connection this sentence implies. Will give the podcast a listen though, sounds interesting!

Chalk it up to difficulty of producing the desired outcome + second-order effects ^_^

While that plays a role too, I find naivite on the part of the observer plays a significant role. Maybe you've not actually identified the most significant shaper or their actual goals correctly ;)

Re: The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

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Subscribed, and looking forward to starting. Amazing idea.

I will admit that I didn't get the idea on the first fast skim of the article. I completely missed the part about Black Mirror. It sounded like just another podcast from the rest of the article. I was looking for a link in the article but found none, missing the giant banner at the top of the page.

So, a link to the main page at the first two words ("The Program") might help skimmers like me.

On the main page, "The Program audio series is a historical podcast set in a future..." really grabbed my attention.

The article itself is a great account of the challenges of building a community around anything. The take on on Patreon resonated especially well, but I still don't get what's happening there. Patreon just makes no sense to me.

> Which goes to show that Patreon is king. Which stupefies me, because for the life of me I don’t see what’s so special about it - as far as I can tell, people don’t use Patreon to find new content, meaning the service itself is not bringing me subscribers. ...

Re: The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

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Post by I-M-S »

aazaa wrote: post #16

Subscribed, and looking forward to starting. Amazing idea. I will admit that I didn't get the idea on the first fast skim of the article. I completely missed the part about Black Mirror. It sounded like just another podcast from the rest of the article. I was looking for a link in the article but found none, missing the giant banner at the top of the page. So, a link to the main page at the first two words ("The Prog…

Glad you managed to find the part that intrigued you! Another link that might have helped is that the word "homepage" at the very also leads to the main page :)

Re: The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

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psalminen wrote: post #19

Long time lover of the show, thanks for sharing! On a related note, this post reminded me to order some merch, but encountered an zip code error on checkout. Is this a known problem?

There have been some known issues between Launchcart and Printful that have been fixed - hopefully this one is among them!

Thank you for becoming a patron of the show - just sent you the welcome email :)

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