How do I get on a podcast to promote my product?
Short answer
By pitching a topic, never a product. Hosts need an interesting episode; nobody books a guest to hear about a piece of software. Find shows whose audience overlaps yours, listen to two episodes so the pitch is specific, and offer one genuinely interesting story you can tell — the technical problem you solved, the thing you got wrong, the counter-intuitive finding from your data. Small shows convert better than big ones and are far easier to get on.
The longer version
This question comes up inside a longer piece on the same problem. If the short answer above raised more questions than it settled, the full article has the reasoning behind it.
Every Way to Promote a Product, and Why Developers Get Each One Wrong