Alternative credit platform Blacksoil, which has backed Indian unicorns such as OYO and Spinny, on Tuesday said it recently raised about $40 million in debt through various financial instruments including non-convertible debentures (NCDs) and term loans from banks.

OYO-backer alternate credit platform Blacksoil raises $40m in debt

It’s time for India’s corporate leaders, policy makers and innovators to get together and chart out a new course for the future of Manufacturing in the digital era. The India Growth Story The Government of India has declared the start of Amrit Kal,

Zetwerk & CNBC-TV18 present smart manufacturing summit 2024

It’s time for India’s corporate leaders, policy makers and innovators to get together and chart out a new course for the future of Manufacturing in the digital era. The Government of India has declared the start of Amrit Kal,

Zetwerk & CNBC-TV18 present Smart Manufacturing Summit 2024

Contract manufacturing platform Zetwerk has posted an 82% increase in losses for FY23 even as revenue from operations rose by 130% year-on-year.

Contract manufacturing unicorn Zetwerk records 82% spike in losses in FY23

Indian startups have managed to raise $237 Mn across 20 deals, a 18% drop from $288 Mn raised last week across 24 deals

From Zetwerk To Neo — Indian Startups Raised $237 Mn This Week

This week, 26 Indian startups raised about $244 million in funding. B2B e-commerce platform Zetwerk led the pack this week with a $120 million Series F funding round. Importantly, this deal accounts for nearly 50% of the overall funding raised during the week.

Funding and acquisitions in Indian startups this week [16-21 Oct]

Notably, the SC bench had directed the NCLAT to pronounce its judgment and declare the results of the Finolex Cables AGM only after getting the scrutinizer’s report. However, a two-member bench of the NCLAT, comprising Justice Kumar and technical member Srivastava, pronounced the order before the scrutinizer’s report was uploaded.

Finolex Cables: SC issues contempt notices to 2 NCLAT members

The company's valuation has stayed flat, considering that it was last valued at around $2.68 billion when it raised $210 million led by Greenoaks in December 2021.

Zetwerk raises $120 million at flat valuation

Manufacturing marketplace ﻿Zetwerk﻿ has secured a Series F funding of Rs 967 crore (Rs 118 million) from Avenir Growth Capital and Footpath Ventures, as per a report by Entrackr. The Bengaluru-based company's board passed a resolution to issue 2.

Zetwerk raises $118M in Series F funding at flat valuation: Report

In terms of revenue, Paytm grew 60.6% to Rs 7,990 crore in FY23 in contrast to Rs 4,974 crore in FY22. The firm managed to control its losses by 26% to Rs 1,776 crore in FY23. The SoftBank-backed firm also filed its quarterly results (Q1 FY24) during which it grew its revenue by only 0.3% to Rs 2,341.6 crore.

PhonePe reports Rs 2,914 Cr revenue in FY23

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On October 5th, Rails 7.1 has been released. In this article, I will show you how I upgraded one of our projects, OneTribe ( ), to the new major release within one day of my holidays. https://onetribe.team/ Prerequisites OneTribe runs Ruby 3.2.2 and Rails 7.0.7. We host on GitHub and deploy with GitHub Actions and Kamal. code Dependencies Update I started with upgrading rails in the application Gemfile. # Gemfile
gem 'pg_party'

# ...

gem 'rails', '~> 7.1.0'
gem 'rails-i18n' After this, you can try to run and depending on your other dependencies, it will either succeed or fail. In my case, it failed because does not support Rails 7.1 yet. bundle update rails pg_party The good news is that Ryan (author and maintainer of PgParty), with help from me and one more developer, within one evening, but didn’t release the new version of the gem yet, so I am going to take the code from the branch. managed to add support for AR 7.1 main # Gemfile
gem 'pg_party', github: 'rkrage/pg_party' After solving the issue with the PgParty bundle, it succeeded. I was almost sure that the application was ready for the next phase of the update, but I remembered that Rails 7.1 introduced composite primary keys for ActiveRecord support out of the box (you can find a full list of new features and improvements here: ). https://rubyonrails.org/2023/10/5/Rails-7-1-0-has-been-released In OneTribe, we’ve used the gem called ( ). It was rather easy; I replaced call with and removed from the application bundle. composite_primary_keys https://github.com/composite-primary-keys/composite_primary_keys self.primary_keys = <array> self.primary_key = <array> composite_primary_keys class TimeTracking::Entry < TimeTrackingRecord
	# with composite_primary_keys
	# self.primary_keys = :id, :date

	# with ActiveRecord 7.1
  self.primary_key = [:id, :date]

  range_partition_by :date
	
	# ...
end After this, I updated Sidekiq to 6.5.11, , and tried to start the application. However, I got an error. which added support to Rails 7.1 ActionText in Rails 7.1 introduced a new HTML 5 sanitizer, which is now default and falls back to HTML 4. As a result of this change, and are applied at runtime and return nil during application load. ActionText::ContentHelper.allowed_tags .allowed_attributes In our case, I don’t need additional tags to be added to ActionText allowed tags configuration, and I removed the initializer. I ran the application test suit, and all specs passed successfully, meaning I can start . rails app:update Application Configuration Update Rails has a special task that can help you to update application configuration in an interactive mode. I used VS Code for development and wanted to use its merge tool, so I specified the THOR_MERGE constant before running the command and used the merge tool to track changes over files. rails app:update THOR_MERGE="code --wait" ./bin/rails app:update One notable change in the 7.1 release is that option with that has an inverted meaning. Both options will still work for backward compatibility, but I suggest to replace with in  environments configuration files. config.cache_classes has been replaced config.enable_reloading config.cache_classes = false config.enable_reloading = true Another new configuration option of Rails 7.1 is . I always try to reduce the number of callbacks used in controllers since they can be extremely hard to maintain. However, there may be situations when controller callbacks fit well (e.g., authorization check). Conditional callbacks are an even bigger hell. Before Rails 7.1, if you defined a condition with or option for an action that does not exist, Rails would say nothing. Now, you can set for test and development environments, and Rails will raise an exception. You can read more info in the railties changelog: . config.action_controller.raise_on_missing_callback_actions only except config.action_controller.raise_on_missing_callback_actions=true https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/7-1-stable/railties/CHANGELOG.md In my Kamal guide, I showed how to create an initializer, which will deal with a load balancer that terminates SSL (e.g., AWS ALB). Rails 7.1 introduced option. This means that in environments that work behind a load balancer (usually production, staging, etc.), you have to enable it and delete the initializer that you used in Rails 7.0. config.assume_ssl=true # config/environments/production.rb

# Assume all access to the app is happening through a SSL-terminating reverse proxy.
# Can be used together with config.force_ssl for Strict-Transport-Security and secure cookies.
config.assume_ssl = true

# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
config.force_ssl = false After you merge all your configuration files and the interactive tool is finished, some tweaks can still be done. First of all, you may notice that you will have a new file in your code base called . It contains all Rails 7.1 default params commented, so you can enable them one by one. Another option is to change in file to have value and delete , this will enable all options at once. new_framework_defaults_7_1.rb config.load_defaults config/application.rb 7.1 new_framework_defaults_7_1.rb Last but not least is option. Before 7.1, you probably had something similar to the code below in your application that uses Zeitwerk. config.autoload_lib # config/application.rb

module OneTribe
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.eager_load_paths << config.root.join("lib")

    Rails.autoloaders.main.ignore(
      config.root.join("lib").join("assets"),
      config.root.join("lib").join("tasks"),
      config.root.join("lib").join("middleware"),
    )

    # ...
  end
end The code above added folder to both eager load and autoload paths and excluded from autoload paths from lib that didn’t contain or should not be reloaded or eager-loaded. lib Ruby code With Rails 7.1 and , everything becomes easier. You just tell Rails to autoload everything in and provide a list of folders that should not be reloaded and eager-loaded. config.autoload_lib lib # config/application.rb

module OneTribe
  class Application < Rails::Application

    # Please, add to the `ignore` list any other `lib` subdirectories that do
    # not contain `.rb` files, or that should not be reloaded or eager loaded.
    # Common ones are `templates`, `generators`, or `middleware`, for example.
    config.autoload_lib(ignore: %w[assets tasks middleware])

		# ...
  end
end Thats all. I reran my specs to ensure I didn’t break anything. Of course, I ran Rubocop to ensure all the changes fit the code style, created PR, and successfully upgraded OneTribe to the new Rails version. Conclusions Rails 7.1 gives you many new features and abilities ( ), but as usual, the upgrading process is smooth and straightforward. https://rubyonrails.org/2023/10/5/Rails-7-1-0-has-been-released Thanks to all the contributors, the core team, and those who tested the release candidate and beta builds! Also published . here

How We Upgraded to Ruby on Rails 7.1: A Smooth Transition

Due to the inability to generate a well-defined way to authenticate rails API, I have sourced out this information in order to help me and you have a way of authenticating our rails API token. This tutorial would be based on the latest version (6.0) of Ruby on Rails. In getting this set up as well as up and doing, the few steps through which the processes would be implemented are listed below: Step 1: We would need to, first of all, generate a new rails app as we embark on the journey. Follow the example given below: $ rails sample-app --api -d=postgresql -T
$ cd sample-app
$ rails db:create
$ rails db:migrate new Step 2: In order to gain access to the API, we would need to uncomment or remove Cors gems as that serves as permission into gaining access to the API gem "rack-cors" After uncommented the gem ‘rack-cors’ then we run this command below $ bundle install Step 3: After we might have gained access to the API, then we run Bcrypt and Knock Gem since Bcrypt is a hash algorithm for password hashing and knock, which is known to be mainly for JWT authentication. Write the following in cors.rb : # config/initializers/cors.rb Rails.application.config.middleware.insert_before , ::Cors allow origins ‘http: resource ‘*’, : :any, : [:get, :post, :put, :patch, : , :options, :head]
 end
end 0 Rack do do //localhost:3000' headers methods delete Step 4: Let us then create a user as we make use of the scaffold generator. The essence of the user controller here is to give us a field known as password_digest which the Bcrypt will further turn from this field into an additional two fields named password and password_confirmation. We must engage the Bcrypt since there’s the ultimate need of us changing the former field into these two latter ones. Follow the sample below: gem gem "bcrypt" "knock" Let’s run: $ bundle install User model and controllers Now, we are going to create a user using the scaffold generator. $ rails generate scaffold User username:string email:string password_digest:string Include this in your user model. # app/models/user.rb = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-   z]+\z/i.freeze
 validates :email, : , : , : { :  VALID_EMAIL_REGEX }
end < : , : class User ApplicationRecord has_secure_password validates username presence true VALID_EMAIL_REGEX presence true uniqueness true format with # app/controllers/users_controller.rb def user_params
 params.permit(:username, :email, :password, :password_confirmation)
end Let’s remove the ‘location: @user’ in the create method. # app/controllers/users_controller.rb def create
 @user = User.new(user_params) @user.save
 render json: @user, : :created render json: @user.errors, : :unprocessable_entity
 end
end if status else status Migrate data by running. $ rails db:migrate Let’s create a user using the rails console. $ rails c

$ User.create(username: , : password: , : ) 'test' email 'test@test.com' 'test@123' password_confirmation 'test@123' Step 5: After that all these have been done, we can then move into configuring the Knock Gem. "Knock Configuration" $ rails g knock:install After imputing the above command line, an initializer file will be created at config/initializers/knock.rb that contains the default configuration. In doing this, it is possible that we encounter an error like this: Could not load generator “generators/knock/install_generator”. Ignore it and skip to the next step (default knock token). The error is mainly caused by a Rails 6 autoloader known as Zeitwerk. Step 6: Here, we are going to degenerate and generate the Knock token as we input the line below into application.rb. $ rails d knock:install Let’s include this in application.rb file: # config/application.rb config.load_defaults 6.0 and config.autoloader = :classic $ rails g knock:install Since the token is set by default to expire in just 24 hours, we can uncomment the line below and adjust it to suit our interest. # config/initializers/knock.rb config.token_lifetime = 1.day Step 7: Let us then generate a controller through which users will sign in $ rails generate knock:token_controller user The above line generates a user_token_controller sourced out from Knock::AuthTokenController which comes with a default create the action that will create a JWT when signed in. The generator also inserts a route in the routes.rb file as an API endpoint for sign in. Be aware of the fact that user_token_controller is just meant for sign in, it is different from users_controller. # app/controllers/user_token_controller.rb < :: class UserTokenController Knock AuthTokenController end Step 8: This is where we’ll insert the include Knock::Authenticable module in our application_controller file. # app/controllers/application_controller.rb < :: :: class ApplicationController ActionController API include Knock Authenticable end It is necessary that we add an authenticate user before filtering our controllers for protection. I’m adding it to users_controller and exempt the create method in order to enable users to sign up. # app/controllers/users_controller.rb before_action :authenticate_user, : [:create] except Note: For people who are using Rails 5.2 or higher ones, there are two additional steps to follow: 1. You should skip the protect_from_forgery in the knock controller since it has already been included in ActionController::Base by default. It’s nice that we disable the standard rails authenticity token since we’re treating the back-end as an API. # app/controllers/user_token_controller.rb < :: : , : class UserTokenController Knock AuthTokenController skip_before_action verify_authenticity_token raise false end 2. # config/initializers/knock.rb config.token_secret_signature_key = -> {        
 Rails.application.credentials.secret_key_base
} You will include the above line to the Knock configuration file. This is because Rails no longer uses config/secrets.yml to hold the secret_key_base that is used for various security features including generating JWTs with the Knock gem. The latest encoded file that rails uses nw is config/credentials.yml.enc. Current_user You also have access directly to current_user. def index current_user
 # something # something end
end if do else do else Step 9: Let’s create routes by adding an API namespace as we use scopes. let’s add an “auth/” scope to all of our API routes. That will add “auth” to the path, but not to the controller or model. The user route here is being edited to `user_token controller`. # config/routes.rb scope post , : post , : end '/auth' do '/signin' to 'user_token#create' '/signup' to 'users#create' Step 10: Wow! We’re done but let’s run a test on our work so far as we use Insomnia. Postman or Curl command-line tool could also be used to run the test. Let’s run the server as we hope that the odds would ever be in our favor. $ rails s Don’t let us forget to wrap our details in auth since it contains the sign-in form field names and values: { : { : , : }
} "auth" "email" "test@test.com" "password" "test@123"

Authenticating Your API Using "Knock Gem" in Rails

Renay Richardson — podcast industry legend, Founder and CEO of , creator of , independent Sony Music Entertainment deal-closer —  is under pressure. Broccoli Content About Race And Renay knows this: “I cannot afford to fail. When you stick your head out so far above water, as a black person, you have to work twice as hard and twice and much. If our Sony project fails, the industry will use it as an excuse to not fund black projects.” “And the podcast industry is not an inclusive space — neither is TV or film, a well known fact,” agrees fellow podcast industry titan, Noleca Radway. Noleca is the Director of Operations of , a queer, Black woman-owned network and production company creating authentic, inclusive and disruptive media content. She is the producer and host of progressive parenting podcast, , the director of and executive producer of . Domino Sound Raising Rebels The Cheat Code The Color Grade Noleca is also the host of the English-track at today’s Podcast Netwerk ’s Podcast Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “You realise, in the end, the system is never going to let you tell your story in the way you want to,” Noleca continues, “There are so many podcasts, and somehow, they’re all kind of the same. When you eventually get to the top, you realize the vision of what it’s [podcasting] supposed to be — is the same, everywhere.” That’s another podcast industry open secret Renay Richardson can confirm firsthand; before founding Broccoli Content, she was blowing minds and changing lives at the likes of Acast, Audible and Panoply. “It’s a system everybody is comfortable with,” Renay explains, “they’re all so secure in their ways they don’t believe they need to change, to adapt. Audio also stays under the radar when it comes to inclusion conversations, I think because you can’t see it. People tend not to investigate — who exactly is making all these shows?” Starting Your Own Podcast Production Company: A Guarantee You’ll Get To Tell Your Stories, Your Way “So, my Acast shares had vested,” begins Renay — sharing Broccoli Content’s origin story  — “and I decided to buy recording kit instead of taking the shares. That’s the kind of crazy stupid self-confidence you need to start an independent podcast production company. I have it.” “I’d heard about Arts Grants, here in the UK. I wasn’t sure about it, but I was like, I think you can get free money to make things. At first my application was rejected, but they gave me feedback, so I implemented it. My second application was accepted.” “Everybody said we couldn’t make a show about race in the UK. They said we had to tailor the story to a white audience. I got the grant and we made it anyway. When it went to #2 on Apple Podcasts, people wanted to work with me.” “What were some of the biggest challenges you faced on the path to founding your own podcast production company?” asks Noleca. “In the UK, if you wanna make shows for the BBC, you have to become a limited company. So, that’s a whole thing,” explains Renay. “It’s so crazy how many ways the system is set up to keep people out of it,” observes Noleca. “Luckily I’d been an agent's assistant for years, so I had a strong admin base,” Renay elaborates; suddenly reminded: “That’s the other thing — ANY deal you do, ever, make sure you get every single part of the entire deal outlined. Including who exactly you’ll be working with at each stage of the project.” “That’s great advice. When people say ‘we all need to make our own mistakes, I’m always like, no. You don’t need to make your own mistakes. You can learn from other people’s mistakes,” Noleca laughs. So, how does Renay Richardson test podcast concepts? “When I worked with the producer who did Peaky Blinders, whenever we had an idea, he would ask us to explain it in a sentence. If we couldn’t, he’d say, ‘You haven’t got an idea.’ So, that’s how my team works now.” How big is Renay Richardson's team at Broccoli? “Five people. I deliberately want to keep a core team. I want to keep it small. When you get money, you get excited. ‘Yay, let’s hire lots of people just because we can!’ No. Don’t do that. A lot of people who get funded don’t have a clear idea of what their goal is. My people know what Brocolli’s about, they’re on-mission. If I die, they could carry it on and it would still be what I wanted it to be. I deliberately do not want to hire a big bunch of people.” This post is the first in a series covering Podcast Netwerk ’s Podcast Conference including the likes of of ; from ; of ; , senior reporter for ; and from Serial Productions, who helped us unpack the industry-redefining podcast, . — which, you should know, boasted a truly mind-blowing podcast industry program — Renay Richardson About Race Joanna Aveillan Acast Josh Rivers Busy Being Black Ashley Carman The Verge Chana Joffe-Walt Nice White Parents , in exchange for a small donation — which, I promise you, will pay for itself twice over, within the first five minutes of your streaming session. ! The Saturday, September 19 program in its entirety is available for you to listen to on the Podcast Festival website Enjoy A selection of the sessions from the conference will be published on the Podcastfestival podcast feed - hear the podcast version of Renay Richardson’s session here!

Starting A Podcast Production Company with Renay Richardson

It's been an insane year. What better way to reflect than to write, record, and make radio? This post is the second in a series about podcasting . The first one, highlighted a dire industry need for more people to find more ways to tell their stories, Starting A Podcast Production Company with Renay Richardson , their way. Now — as ever — radio is an inimitably powerful way to spread big ideas, create space for difficult conversations, and call for collective action. "Your ministry is in your DNA. When you’re talking, when you're telling stories, you have something to 'minister' about. That principle informs the care and tenderness I try to put into . It comes down to three simple questions. I want to change the world. Not everybody wants to change the world. Some people just want to make a podcast." Busy Being Black Why are you making it? Are you the best person to be making it? What do you want it to do? — Josh Rivers, Creator and Host, * Busy Being Black* podcast , Amsterdam, 2020 During in Amsterdam, 's Content Expansion Manager, , shared the ultimate list of everything you need to start your own podcast from scratch - pre- and post-launch. Podcast Netwerk’s Podcast Conference Acast Joanna Aveillan Joanna's presentation was insanely informative and useful — even though is already pretty well established; and especially because I'm currently volunteering for — which involves the distinct pleasure of starting a 12-part podcast series, from scratch. Hacker Noon's Podcast an activist entrepreneurship accelerator in Amsterdam In this post, I'll share the first section of the ACAST-approved starting a podcast checklist I picked up at the Podcast Conference in Amsterdam, as well as how I'm applying those learnings to both The Hacker Noon Podcast, as well as my side project podcast for (title TBD). YOUth ACT This post covers: 1. What you Need Before Launching a Podcast IDEA & CONCEPT TECHNICAL SETUP SHOW ART & NAME In the next two posts, I'll cover the rest of ACAST's start a podcast checklist, sections two and three: 2. How to Launch In the Best Way, and 3. How to Grow Your Show. Part 1: Starting a Podcast Checklist — Pre-Launch 🧠 How to Refine Your Podcast Idea and Concept Here's ACAST's list of the practical questions people don't always consider when they're thinking about starting a podcast: What type of show: Lifestyle, news, comedy? Where will your podcast fit in? Format: Ongoing vs. Seasonal? Release day? Release frequency? Guests? What type? Who will source them? This takes of time. a lot Same format every time? Varying formats? Sometimes an interesting way to switch things up, and allows you the freedom to cover different subjects in different ways. Try things out before releasing anything. Record practice episodes with friends to give yourself the space and time to correct rookie mistakes. 💡 Pro Tip: , 's , 💼 Good Examples: WTF with Mark Maron The Guardian Today in Focus Trust Nobody (Dutch) Refining My Podcast Ideas and Concepts At Hacker Noon, we like to keep things flexible. Our publishing schedule is sporadic, to call a spade a shovel; and our formats range from to . Our category is easy — all things tech (which is to say, all things). hour-length conversations with deep tech experts 15-minute debate clubs hosted by a robot 🐟 YOUth ACT is a different kettle of fish. Initially developed out of a collaboration between the Amsterdam-based Unicef and Amnesty Student Teams, out of a specific goal to go beyond awareness by addressing human rights and social justice topics through practical workshops and advice by local initiatives, thereby demonstrating young people can take action. how YOUth ACT's work is targeted specifically at founders, advocates, activists, and social entrepreneurs under the age of 30, and part of their mission is to expand access critical social, political, and economic education — far beyond the walls of Amsterdam's ancient universities. The 20/21 Content Calendar, outlined by YOUth ACT's Transformative Education committee, includes the following themes: Understanding Capitalism; Intersectional Feminism; Anti-Racism & Anti-Colonialism; Migration, Borders, & The State; Environmentalism & The Just Transition; Bodies, Health, & Medicine; Education, Pedagogy, & Ideology; Authority, & Legitimacy; and Alternatives to Capitalism. As a quick Apple Podcasts category search reveals, the possibilities are endless. Here's an example of two potential podcast categories and subcategories I'm considering for YOUth ACT: How would you categorize a podcast created to address the above listed themes? Technical Podcast Setup Considerations Recording equipment: do your research against your budget. Self-produced, or do you want to pitch to work with an independent producer or podcast  production company? You'll need to choose and sign-up to a podcast hosting and distribution platform (ACAST, for example, has Starter, Influencer and Ace tiers for creators.) My Podcasting Tech Stack and Setup Thanks to Hacker Noon, I am in possession of the standard starter podcasting mic — the infamous Yeti — and (also thanks to Hacker Noon) a recent subscription means I can ask an AI to host a podcast for me when I'm short on time. As for studio setup, using the cartoid setting on my Yeti, with my windows closed, I don't find it necessary to record in my closet. Descript Prior to using Descript to record Hacker Noon's pods, I used Audacity. We use Podbean for hosting and distribution, and we upload mp4 versions of all our podcasts to Youtube. I haven't decided which hosting and distribution platform I'll use for the YOUth ACT podcast yet, but I've gotta say will be a game-changer, whenever we get access in the Netherlands. Anchor's new 'shows with music' Spotify plug-in Creating Podcast Show Art and Choosing Your a Podcast's Name According to both Joanna from ACAST and , your show art and podcast title are a super important elements of user discovery (after episode titles and ratings, but those only come in play later in the process). the 2020 survey results pictured below Things to consider when creating podcast show artwork: Readability. Accessibility. It’s going to be very small. Is your name and logo known by a lot of people? Even then, that’s not always enough. You want to convey what the podcast is about. You want to use your visual to create context. Unless you’re really famous — avoid using your face as your podcast show art. Go and check the podcast charts in your content category for examples of what are other people doing 💡 Pro Tip: 💼 Good Example: The Daily Tech News Show Things to consider when choosing your podcast's name: Should be engaging and original, but it also needs to have some connection with what you’re actually planning to talk about. Once you've got an idea you like, do your research — did anybody beat you to it? Remember SEO basics: don’t try to be too cute, your podcast title should be easily searchable from word-of-mouth recommendations. Watch out for unnecessary repetition. You don't usually need to use the word 'Podcast' in the title of a podcast, for example. Optimizing Hacker Noon's Existing Podcast Name and Show Art So, the Hacker Noon Podcast is currently called the Hacker Noon Podcast, and I'm 100% okay with that. None of our millions+ monthly readers seem to hate it, which is nice. Maybe one day we'll do a Rabbit Hole-esque spin-off series and call it something else, in which case — I will most certainly put it to a public vote, as I've recently done with both Hacker Noon's podcast artwork and YOUth ACT's entire concept — a highly participatory process that's proven to be hella fun! Can recommend. From a simple Slack poll, I learned that people like it when you put the squigly streaming-sound lines in podcast artwork (an hypothesis later confirmed over at YOUth ACT). Before you scroll down to see what the Hacker Noon team had to say, choose your own favourite from the 6 options below: Annnd — here's how the Hacker Noon team voted: Creating YOUth ACT's Podcast Name and Show Art from Scratch I started volunteering for YOUth ACT because of a burning desire to be part of better informed conversations. With a civil rights movement to the right of me, anti-fascist revolutions to the left, here I was, stuck in the middle of global pandemic; armed with nothing but a decade-old liberal arts degree in dinner party conversation that is decidedly no longer rising to meet the needs of the moment. a student-led non-profit that aims to provide young people (under 30) with the audacity and tools necessary to engage critically with the causes they care about, and to transform their ideas into action in the field. Enter YOUth ACT: As mentioned, the weighty and important topics we'll be attempting to unpack in a 12-part audio series include: ; Understanding Capitalism ; Intersectional Feminism Anti-Racism & Anti-Colonialism; ; Migration, Borders, & The State ; Environmentalism & The Just Transition ; Bodies, Health, & Medicine Education, Pedagogy, & Ideology; Authority & Legitimacy; and . Alternatives to Capitalism Don't know if there's a catchy title immediately springing to your mind after internalizing all that, but I, for one, was stumped. Seriously. Here's the first slide I presented to the team: And if you thought that wasn't mediocre enough, here's the second list of names I shortlisted: Finally, this past weekend, on Saturday morning, I walked into my little garden with a cup of coffee and — suddenly, out of nowhere — it hits me like a tonne of bricks: There's a free online podcast name generator for this. I (quite literally) sprint back inside, throw open my Macbook, and boom, in under three seconds: Free Online Podcast Name Generator Town — Population Me, my friends. And there goes my weekend. First — for your interest — the early results of the name generator exercise : Throw Down Activism / Jam Activism / Pitch Activist / Actilytical / Activistology / Parley Radical / Go Time Radical / Coda Radical / Post Radical / Blackboard Radical / Intersectionverse / Intersection Sessions / Intersectionopolis / Intersectionry / Intersectional Feed / Instinct Critical / Criticium / Coda Critical / Tune Critical / Critical Analytica / Movementology / Off the Fence / Many Lanes / The Activist's Bookclub / Antilytica / Unschooled / Nonscholastic / Extracurricular / Unlearnology / Project Unlearn / Project Organise / Source Organise / Organise Jam Next, almost an entire Saturday spent playing in Canva (is there any better way to spend a day?), iterating on V1 of a mood board I could use to kick off preliminary voting among YOUth ACT's Media Team. Since we do most of our communication via Whatsapp, I decided to mock these up with mobile-first orientation. The tagline, hypothetical episode titles, and manifesto were all included so that people could use that positioning to inform their feedback, which went something like this: Armed with three clear leaders in the race to choose a name ( and ); six favourite design templates; and some feedback around making the art work more closely related to the subject matter, I created v2: Many Lanes, Activated, Critical Instinct, Post Radical is a thing that already exists. Another consideration is that 'Many Lanes' could be misconstrued to be a podcast about the automotive industry. A potential blocker: The Activated Podcast We're meeting to try and reach consensus later tonight; keep an eye out for my next post to find out what we land on in the end. This post is the second in a series covering Podcast Netwerk ’s Podcast Conference in Amsterdam — including the likes of of ; from ; of ; , senior reporter for ; and from Serial Productions, who helped us unpack the industry-redefining podcast, . , in exchange for a small donation — which, I promise you, will pay for itself twice over, within the first five minutes of your streaming session. ! — which you should know boasted a truly mind-blowing podcast industry program Renay Richardson About Race Joanna Aveillan Acast Josh Rivers Busy Being Black Ashley Carman The Verge Chana Joffe-Walt Nice White Parents The program in is available for you to listen to on the Podcast Festival website Enjoy Read the first post in this podcasting series: and be sure to stay tuned — next up: ACAST's starting a podcast checklist, sections two and three: Starting A Podcast Production Company with Renay Richardson , 2. How to Launch In the Best Way, and 3. How to Grow Your Show!

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