In this holiday episode, we celebrate reaching over 300 paying subscribers and 1,500 monthly active users. We also discuss recent backend infrastructure optimizations, critical bug fixes, and future plans, including a new pro plan with expanded features like higher private podcast limits and custom audio uploads.

Chapters:

• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:47] Business updates
• [04:55] Recent projects: cost optimizations, bug fixes, CVEs
• [12:36] Future plans
• [15:59] Recommendations

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New app features: listening history, continue listening, and transcript exports + navigating LLM-induced team drama.

Chapters:

• [00:00] Welcome and business update
• [02:13] Metacast v1.25 Overview
• [02:50] New Feature: Listening History
• [08:08] New Feature: Continue Listening
• [12:41] New Feature: Exporting Transcripts
• [20:24] Website outage
• [22:21] The Pro Tier in v1.26
• [23:06] Team conflict: LLM miscommunication
• [31:21] LLM Etiquette in Teams
• [35:50] Podcast & book recommendations
• [45:34] P.S. We're YouTube stars (FWIW)

Links

• Metacast v1.25 blog post

Podcasts:

• Tech Brew Ride Home Oct 16
• Scott & Mark: The AI productivity trap
• American Gods
• The Sandman

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We celebrate Metacast's one-year "survivalversary" with a special $10/year sale and share what we're working on.

Chapters:

• [00:28] - State of the business
• [05:20] - The Survaviversary
• [09:16] - New creator transcript feature
• [16:04] - Upcoming playlist and history features
• [21:25] - Podcast recommendations

Links

• Survaviversary blog post
• Creator transcripts blog post
• Tip Jar for supporters: Buy Me A Coffee

Podcasts:

• The Panel
• Big Think
• Endless: A Sandman Podcast

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What we've been up to in the second half of the summer + update on the just released Metacast v1.24.

Chapters

• [00:00] Summer hiatus and personal reflections
• [02:16] User growth and trials
• [03:44] Website traffic and SEO success
• [08:14] Managing website costs and bots
• [12:38] Metacast v1.24: New features
• [16:14] Web app development & podcaster tools
• [22:50] Data analytics and privacy
• [25:16] Anniversary sale
• [27:44] Upcoming app features and goals
• [31:50] Recommendations: The Sandman
• [36:25] Recommendations: The Birkin Bag Story

Show notes

• Birkin: The Handbag That Costs More Than Your House on The Best Idea Yet
• The Sandman: Netflix, Comics, Audio

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We've GA-ed private podcasts! In this episode, we talk about the feature, the extra perks for Premium users and celebrate completion of the table stakes features. We end the episode with a banter about Claude Code and a few German phrases.

Show notes

• Michelin Guide: The Tire Company That Accidentally Conquered Food on The Best Idea Yet
• Falling In Reverse - "Watch The World Burn" (live)

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We're on the finishing line to launch private podcasts in GA, but it takes a while because we've wasted a lot of time dealing with ops post-Google billing incident.

Show notes

• Back To The Future... And Back - 40 Years of Marty, Doc, & Mayor Goldie Wilson on Talk Is Jericho

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Preparing to launch private podcasts, marketing projects, ops stuff, and a huge (with a capital "H") bill from Google

Show notes

• The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses” on My First Million
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
• Flybot by Dennis E. Taylor
• Dennis E. Taylor, author of best-selling sci-fi series Bobiverse on Builders Gonna Build

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Every week, we meet for a standup. We summarize our progress in short weekly updates that we record right after our meetings.

In this update, we discuss launching private feeds, the new podcast search feature on the web app, and making money.

Show notes

• Bobbi Althof's The Really Good Podcast
• Andre Agassi on Served
• News in Slow Spanish
• The Game with Alex Hormozi

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