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24 alternatives to Nice to Meet You by Tobias van Schneider

Conversations with Makers, Builders and No-Bullshitters

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Nice to Meet You by Tobias van Schneider launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Nice To Meet You - 5: Q&A with Tobias▲102
Q&A with Tobias Van Schneider about Design questions
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
2
Product People ▲239
Podcast focused on great products and their makers
2014 · productpeople.tv · its alternatives →
3
Nice to meet you▲5
Awesome podcasts by Tobias van Schneider
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
4
Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs▲83
Candid conversations with 30 leading designers
2015 · kernandburn.com · its alternatives →
5
Happy Mitten - 28: Board Games, Business, and Protospiel Milwaukee▲53
Interviewing makers at the Milwaukee game design convention
2016 · happymittengames.com · its alternatives →
6
Alice by Couple▲57
An AI companion from the folks who built Couple
2014 · couple.me · its alternatives →
7
NTMY The Show - 1: Pieter Levels▲142
The inaugural episode of Tobias van Schneider's new podcast
2015 · vanschneider.com · its alternatives →
8
Dorm Room Tycoon - Finding your design path w/ Tobias van Schneider▲105
Spotify's (former) lead designer talks product design
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
9
Chatous▲99
Meet new people and talk about what matters to you.
2014 · chatous.com · its alternatives →
10
Maker's Row▲157
Factory Sourcing Made Easy
2014 · makersrow.com · its alternatives →
11
The Pragmatic Programmer▲87
Solid advice and awesome analogies
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
Designer Chat▲148
The Designer News community in a private Slack chat.
2014 · designerchat.co · its alternatives →
13
Developer Ipsum▲110
Lorem for nerds
2021 · developer-ipsum.netlify.app · its alternatives →
14
Full Stack Radio▲128
A podcast for devs interested in building great products.
2015 · fullstackradio.com · its alternatives →
15
a16z - Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff▲71
Our changing relationship with technology and machines
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
16
Talking to Humans▲79
a practical guide to customer development
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
Design Life - 001: Why We Have a Side Project▲92
Filling the female design podcast gap
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
18
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming▲70
Interviews with the 15 most interesting computer programmers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
Pointer▲95
A reading club for developers
2015 · pointer.io · its alternatives →
20
Valley Speak▲94
Deciphering the jargon of Silicon Valley
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Ben Horowitz's Book▲114
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
2014 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
Project Fixup▲30
Meet People. Not Profiles.
2014 · onlineforlove.com · its alternatives →
23
Descriptive - 22: with Ashley Williams▲54
Building abstractions that aren't ahistorical
2015 · descriptive.audio · its alternatives →
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Hatching – How do we come up with product ideas▲84
A podcast about the inner workings of Need/Want
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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