Refreshing{"id":146,"date":"2019-11-30T20:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peopledrinkwords.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2019-11-30T20:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T20:33:57","slug":"heres-to-the-first-six-months-podcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peopledrinkwords.com\/2019\/11\/30\/heres-to-the-first-six-months-podcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s to the first six months podcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A little more than six months ago this was just one of these 58045084 ideas I toy with. You know the kind of ideas developers have in mind and buy tons of domain names for when they have time for it. Over the past few years, I have had a whole bunch of these. I actually bought twelve domain names over the past two years and am pretty sure I’m below what the average dev does. Out of these ideas, only two became fully-fledged projects: CoinzProfit<\/a>, the crypto app I released early 2018 and People + Drink = Words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Funnily enough, these are the only two that I actually worked on before buying the domain name. Heck, they didn’t even have a name until the last moment. For the longest time, CoinzProfit was under the SomeTestCryptoApp in XCode (the tool to build iOS\/Mac apps). I only had to think of a name after I built it and felt like it could be useful to more than just me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, PDW followed a different pattern. I had the idea, then the name came but I still had doubts. As it turns out, I went for brunch with my girlfriend and a friend in early May. We went to Shack-Fuyu, a more than decent restaurant where you can have delicious bottomless brunch. Later on, I went to grab a drink and catch up with that friend and we spoke for a bit. Or so we thought. Upon looking at the time, we realised it had been almost three hours we spent discussing. We spoke about various things including that podcast idea. Before going home I even mentioned this could have been a great podcast episode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As soon as I got home, I went on Amazon. Got some microphones and stands using next-day delivery. I went on to buy yet another domain name and voila, People + Drink = Words was born. A few days later I recorded the first episode with my girlfriend. A couple of episodes later, that friend joined for another nigh 3-hour conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It has been six months now and I have been having a lot of fun. Talking with friends over a drink, learning new skills like editing sound and now even video. I simply love doing it. I also love that I can give it enough time to make it a thing. Although it can be overwhelming sometimes between work, the blog<\/a>, the gaming etc, I am happy to be on this journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am happy about the episodes so far and excited about the future ones and upcoming guests. I can’t wait for you to listen and\/or watch what comes next. My mind is already blown by the forty people average tuning in to listen and the few others watching on Youtube<\/a>. If you like it then keep coming. If you never listened, check at least the latest episode<\/a>, maybe subscribe on your favourite podcast platform. While you do that I will be busy improving to deliver better and better episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll see you in the next one. In the meantime, I’ll release the episode seven sometime in December and will get back to shooting hopefully in January with a new setup. Once again, thanks to everyone supporting that adventure by inspiring, listening, sharing and joining in. That means a lot to me. To another six months!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cover credit: Jean-Dominique Nguele, random holiday pic. Aruba, June 2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A little more than six months ago this was just one of these 58045084 ideas I toy with. You know the kind of ideas developers have in mind and buy tons of domain names for when they have time for it. Over the past few years, I have had a<\/p>\n