Design Challenge
Lex Fridman
One of the most popular podcasts has one of the worst websites, and it was so fun to break Podpage to see how we could get close to it. We succeeded with the general ethos, even if it wasn't perfect.
What's This?
Design Challenges are a fun way to show off the amazing things you can do with Podpage. We asked podcasters to share their favorite non-Podpage podcast websites and then we spend 15-30 minutes recreating them using only settings available in Podpage with no custom code.
Have a website you want to see Podpaged? Submit a challenge here.
The Process
Here's a little insight into how we customized Podpage to look like the original Lex Fridman website.
Lex's website is BAD. It's old. It's not a site someone would build today. So, we decided to replicate it!
The video to the left is the actual process. It's 20 mins because it shows me going start to finish with this website.
The shining star here was the YouTube Episode Matching, where we were able to pull in amazing thumbnails for all the episodes. That feature is becoming more and more important these days, and we're going to highlight it more.
But overall, I was really happy with how this came out. it wasn't perfect, but we got that awesome boring tone that makes his website special 😊
What Worked
- YouTube Thumbnails matched perfectly and are awesome.
- Plain and boring color tone made the site feel like his.
- Custom Content sections on the homepage let us add content in a way that matched what he had done.
What Didn't Work
- Couldn't do the 5 episode, tiny photo grid.
- Didn't have direct links to YouTube from the homepage.
- Didn't attempt to do featured episode section separate from the Recent Episodes in interest of time.
