To celebrate episode 100, Wes and Scott are talking about Syntax - their most popular episodes, stats, Q&A, and a bunch of cool stuff about what it's been like making this show for 100 episodes.

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Show Notes

1:45 - Celebrating 100 episodes

04:18 - Our first episode

Syntax001 - React Tools

06:23 - Our first sponsor

Delicious Brains

09:37 - Most popular episodes

21:35 - Top countries

Just passed 3 million downloads
10 - Poland - 38,731 downloads
09 - Brazil - 40,475 downloads
08 - Netherlands - 47,601 downloads
07 - India - 50,724 downloads
06 - Sweden - 55,378 downloads
05 - Australia - 80,654 downloads
04 - Germany - 109,842 downloads
03 - Canada - 138,250 downloads
02 - United Kingdom - 231,835 downloads
01 - United States - 1,220,519 downloads

27:34 - Top players

AppleCoreMedia
Overcast
Chrome
Pocket Casts
iTunes

30:35 - Lessons learned about sponsors

Pays the bills - editing, hosting, etc…
- Podcast Royale - Podcast production
- Libsyn - Podcast hosting
They want hard numbers
Conversions are hard to track
It’s really cool companies and users that enjoy the product hook up
How do we get them?

35:10 - Favorite episodes

38:49 - Q&A

Q: What's your favorite soundboard sound?
Q: What's your recording process like? Do you each record your streams locally then edit them together or are there any "hax" you guys have cooked up as developers?
- A: Pay someone who is good at editing
- We both have good recording gear
- We record separate files and send them our production team, Podcast Royale, for editing
- We do show notes in Dropbox Paper, which are also edited by Podcast Royale
Q: Does Scott practice his segues, or do they just come to him on the fly?
- A: On the fly 😎
Q: Although I am all for peace, why did you choose "peace" as your outro statement?
- A: It was a random note from Wes in the first episode and we stuck with it
Q: how did you meet each other and decided to start the podcast?
- A: We both released a course around the same time with the same name - we started talking and the rest is history
- Syntax007 - Scott Tolinski Origin Story
- Syntax008 - Wes Bos Origin Story

51:20 - Most asked questions

What episode was it that you ______ ?
Can my boss come on the show and talk about bitcoin?
Can you sick pick my thing?
Can you do an episode on VueJS?
Can you do an episode on Angular?
NO EP TODAY?

54:20 - Random thoughts

Neat to have community - lots of experts
Twitter is great
Sales of our own products
- Transformed Level Up Tuts
Doing fitness, hobbies, and life as a developer is fun
Learned a lot from researching shows and from community feedback
Different voices can give different breakthroughs

57:10 - Future of Syntax

No. 1 goal is to always be a fun, helpful show
Not going to become a promotional tour stop
Maybe more interviews
Easy to listen to and and understand

Links

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Wes: MongoDB Compass
Scott: Notion

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