As the title says, I started broadcasting on stand.fm.
Here's how it started.
When I was job hunting before, I also put out a call on this blog, and Shibata-san, executive officer and head of administration at Kayac (おもしろ法人カヤック), reached out.
Despite this odd blog, the fact that Shibata-san and Kayac would think "if you're considering a move, let's get in touch" is wonderful.
If you're thinking about a job or a career change, Kayac might be worth a look.
So I had a Zoom meeting with Shibata-san once.
I ended up joining another company, but the meeting was so interesting that I wanted to stay in touch.
When I said so, the idea came up: why don't we comment on each other's stand.fm broadcasts?
stand.fm isn't really suited to back-and-forth audio, so the user experience might not be great — but there probably aren't many listeners anyway, so for now as long as Shibata-san and I understand each other, that's enough.
Today I posted the first episode, and audio is still hard.
I'll treat it as practice speaking and keep at it.
I'm aiming for something only a few minutes long, so if you have time, give it a listen.
P.S.
Belatedly: ZUUHE is pronounced "zoo-hee." Shibata-san said he'd been thinking "zoo-hay," and I realized that makes sense — so just for the record...
Update: 2021/05/09
stand.fm really wasn't the right medium for audio exchange, so we moved to Podcast.
We created a shared account, so listeners no longer need to jump between two podcasts.
We use Anchor for publishing; posting there automatically spreads to major podcast platforms, so you can listen in those apps.
We named our exchange "ペアゆる問答" (Pair Yuru Mondo) — search that on podcast platforms and it should come up.
For now here's the Google Podcast link.
Incidentally, as a creator I rather liked stand.fm — you can edit right after recording (including cutting parts), and the app wasn't heavy.
Shibata-san still uses it; I might use it for my own reflection going forward.
As a platform, though, it has a lot of dubious side-hustle business accounts, and it feels like it's cooling off — Clubhouse too.
Unless you're somewhat famous, few people will want to listen; audio doesn't spread on Twitter and SNS the way note does, so organic growth seems nearly impossible.
That said, the audio exchange itself felt full of potential. Asynchronous voice conversation is interesting. Not limited to stand.fm — private 1-on-1 audio with coworkers or friends might be worth recommending.
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