We Make Sounds

We Make Sounds is an informal conversation podcast, and most episodes are built around a guest or two talking about something they have made. Siddharth is the name that recurs at the top of episodes, joined by Anirudh or Manu. The questions are plain. They sometimes circle before they land, and guests are given room to answer. That looseness lets the show cover very different ground. Shlok, founder of Cryptify.club, accepts 'PayPal for cryptos' as the easiest description of his platform and calls it his one-line pitch. He is candid about being a first-time founder with practically zero traction, and plans to approach VCs once the numbers are worth showing. Asked whether crypto is a bubble, he says no, then separates overhyped coins from projects he considers undervalued, naming the crypto project Sia, a decentralized storage effort he likens to a peer-to-peer AWS. The paperd.Ink episode turns to hardware. Prasad and Rohit describe an e-paper development board they have worked on for a year and a half alongside full-time jobs, now the subject of an Indiegogo campaign. Their route to early customers is practical: post where makers already gather, including Hacker News and subreddits for home IoT and the ESP32 microcontroller, and present the work as a curious project, since an advert gets banned. Music gets its turn with the lo-fi producer brillion. He dates his start to middle school, reflects on how digital music has become compared with an era built around concerts and live events, and stresses that every release he puts out needs to do well. Asked whether AI could compete in lo-fi, he says he does not know enough to have a view, mentioning that AI mastering exists. It is a refreshingly straight answer. Influencers Sia and Nitzana join Siddharth and Manu to talk about cancel culture, the LGBTQ+ movement and social media marketing, including whether the country has become more accepting of the LGBTQ community compared with two years earlier. Yerdana Maulenbay, introduced as a friend, lays out interests in aviation, Formula One aerodynamics and race strategy, and education access, then tells new programmers to connect with people already working in the industry to stay motivated. Not every episode has a guest. In 'How we survived 14 months of a global pandemic. | Ep. 65 | WMS', two speakers recall starting the podcast right after their exams, one mentions getting into machine learning, and they weigh whether Dogecoin is anything more than hype. The sign-off cheerfully admits that several of the show's social accounts are not active. What a listener gets is curiosity over polish: people at different stages of making something, answering direct questions in their own words.