Create Your World

Ben McCarthy and Liam Gibson
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A weekly look at two content creators on the journey to profitable online content businesses 🎨 Share the pain of 0 views, and the glory of the first dollar 💸 Ben McCarthy is the founder of Discover Earth, a web app with a daily feed about the Carl Sagan-esque wonders of the cosmos. Check out https://discover.earth & twitter.com/benmcc. He lives in Sydney. Liam Gibson is the founder of Policy People, an article aggregator for communities of think tank professionals. Check out https://policy-people.org. He lives in Taipei. Join our community: Reddit.com/r/CreateYourWorld

  1. 07/16/2020

    tridivesh trial

    test

    36 min

  2. 03/29/2020

    Feed me.. ! Tinkering with RSS plugins

    Liam's notes on a bunch of RSS feed plugins as he tries to filter out posts based on authors. Snippets of Ben's notes included too.    Simple Link Directory WP RSS Aggregator  - Premium US$150 WordPress Automatic Plugin - US$18 Youtube Vid: How to Make an AutoBlogging Website with WordPress and Automatic Plugin & Make Money in 2020  YD Buddypress Feed Syndication Uncanny Automator Plugin

    22 min

  3. 03/20/2020

    Creating under Quarantine

    Getting cabin fever under quarantine..? Nothing like good conversation when in isolation..! Liam (almost) finishes his thesis and looks ahead to create new synergies between Policy People and Global Voices, Ben maps out his game plan for the Product Hunt launch.

    2h 32m

  4. 02/19/2020

    Ben's preparing for launch / A disastrous internship

    - Ben's upcoming ProductHunt launch - How to collaborate with creators - Success with automated traffic generation - Liam's launch feedback - Liam gets a new disastrous internship Product Hunt Product Hunt Launch checklist

    1h 18m

  5. 02/17/2020

    Liam: 3, 2, 1 .. Policy People has launched! 🚀

    Recording taken of the night of Policy People's first mini-launch. Check out the site now at http://policy-people.org/ (and please give feedback ;-) In this quick ep, I give an overview of the site's stack plus which users I chose to test out the MVP. Updates on first user feedback due in the next episode with Ben, so stay tuned! http://policy-people.org/ https://www.livechatinc.com/ https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/simple-link-directory/

    9 min

  6. 01/29/2020

    Liam: My Minimum Viable (Free!) WordPress Stack

    Quick update on cobbling together a basic working free stack for the site. Great to have a set up which can grow steadily from core MVP to additional features and build out as we grow overtime. Check out what I toyed with in the notes below !  https://www.buddyboss.com/  (Free Platform and Paid Theme)  http://rankitwp.com/  (A Promising Link Aggregator but likely abandaned now...) https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/simple-link-directory/ (Heaps of features if you want to do Lists of Links. Freemium.)  https://www.wprssaggregator.com/extensions/ (Autoposts Pulled RSS Feeds. Free version with paid add ons.) https://8degreethemes.com/blog/best-free-buddypress-wordpress-themes/ (Bunch of free themes for buddypress)

    20 min

  7. 01/20/2020

    2020 Vision

    Ben and Liam reemerge from the depths to bring you our plans for 2020 and a long overdue update on all that has been going on these past few months. Thanks to all of you for hanging in there!

    1h 15m

  8. 10/04/2019

    On hiatus!

    Create Your World goes on temporary hiatus while Liam completes his Master's degree. Also: - Biggest lessons learned so far - Plans for Liam's next project: "Global Voices" - Podcasting tips - Reflections on the podcast so far

    1h 17m
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A weekly look at two content creators on the journey to profitable online content businesses 🎨 Share the pain of 0 views, and the glory of the first dollar 💸 Ben McCarthy is the founder of Discover Earth, a web app with a daily feed about the Carl Sagan-esque wonders of the cosmos. Check out https://discover.earth & twitter.com/benmcc. He lives in Sydney. Liam Gibson is the founder of Policy People, an article aggregator for communities of think tank professionals. Check out https://policy-people.org. He lives in Taipei. Join our community: Reddit.com/r/CreateYourWorld

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  • Creator
    Ben McCarthy and Liam Gibson
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2020
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ben McCarthy and Liam Gibson
  • Show Website
    Create Your World