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The Bike Shed

Hosted by thoughtbot.

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Should you pitch it?

Guest activity
Sometimes has guests
20% of recent episode titles look like interviews
Episode length
40 min
Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.
Publishing
Monthly
506 episodes · last 2026-07-14
Language
English
The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.
Where it's from
Not established
No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.
Reach
86
Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.
Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.
Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

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  2. 505: What is a “principal” or “staff” engineer?
  3. 504: AI Ethics (with guests!)
  4. 503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees
  5. 502: Apps That Make Our Work Go
  6. 501: What makes for good technical writing?

This show publishes a contact

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