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Lead with new features, not copies of what exists

what you need is new things. And those things happen to serve the vision, but they also give adopters a reason to implement the thing that you created.

Episode 80: Wheels Up (episode page, opens in a new tab) March 31, 2022, 9:53 p.m. CT 00:57:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Responding to criticism that the Podcast Index should have started by replicating Apple's iTunes tags, Dave says no one adopts a namespace that only duplicates what already exists. New tags that serve the vision give adopters a reason to declare it. Once about 400,000 feeds declare the namespace, existing tags can be folded in.

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Episode 80: Wheels Up (episode page, opens in a new tab) March 31, 2022 00:56:34 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
you'll never, ever get anybody to adopt the quote unquote, podcast namespace, if all it does is from the beginning is replicate the iTunes namespace tags up somebody, it's, you can't sell that to anybody.
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