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Our website got slammed by LLM bots from Amazon and Anthropic, which could've cost us $7k in Vercel image optimization costs!
Get Metacast podcast app for Android and iOS at https://metacast.app.
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Segments
- [00:20] Introduction and episode overview
- [01:31] New features and updates
- [03:02] Why do we keep applying to YC?
- [08:53] The LLM bot invasion incident
- [21:26] We re-allowed LLM bots to crawl the site
- [28:22] Book & podcast recommendations
Show notes
Posts
Books
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Little Golden America by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
Get in touch
- 🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: https://metacast.app
- 👥 Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/metacastapp/
- ✉️ Subscribe to Metacast newsletter: https://www.metacastpodcast.com
- 👋 Send feedback or say hi: hello@metacastpodcast.com
- 📕 Get our book! The Pragmatic Podcaster: a step-by-step guide to starting an amazing podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW
- 👚 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com
In the first episode of 2025, we discuss the lowlights of last year and sharing our high-level plans for 2025.
Get Metacast podcast app for Android and iOS at https://metacast.app.
Join the r/metacastapp subreddit.
Segments
- [02:23] User feedback
- [06:48] Fixing the leaky bucket of the intro screen
- [11:00] New feature: Episode inbox
- [15:11] Investing in the web app
- [18:24] The hard parts of 2024
- [23:25] We have to make it work, or else...
- [30:38] Why we're putting energy in SEO
- [33:28] Becoming more pragmatic
- [35:57] Podcast & book recommendations
Show notes
Podcasts
Posts
- What's happening with founders over 40 by Justin Jackson
Books
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas & Andrew Hunt
- Little Golden America by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
Get in touch
- 🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: https://metacast.app
- 👥 Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/metacastapp/
- ✉️ Subscribe to Metacast newsletter: https://www.metacastpodcast.com
- 👋 Send feedback or say hi: hello@metacastpodcast.com
- 📕 Get our book! The Pragmatic Podcaster: a step-by-step guide to starting an amazing podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW
- 👚 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com
In this holiday edition episode, we discuss the past year's highlights, a recent outage, and the rapid emergence of Bluesky as a social media platform.
Get Metacast podcast app for Android and iOS at https://metacast.app.
Join the r/metacastapp subreddit.
Segments
- [00:20] Welcome to the holiday edition
- [01:24] Year in review: launches and growth
- [04:06] Challenges and user feedback
- [07:12] The big outage and serendipitous solution
- [10:16] Switching to a new transcription service
- [18:39] App updates
- [21:37] The journey of implementing timestamps
- [24:58] The rise of Bluesky
- [37:55] Podcast recommendations
Show notes
Podcasts
Get in touch
- 🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: https://metacast.app
- 👥 Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/metacastapp/
- ✉️ Subscribe to Metacast newsletter: https://www.metacastpodcast.com
- 👋 Send feedback or say hi: hello@metacastpodcast.com
- 📕 Get our book! The Pragmatic Podcaster: a step-by-step guide to starting an amazing podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW
- 👚 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com
We've chatted with a VC-backed founder who is on the brink of closing shop. Listen to our reflections on this. Plus, a breakdown of latest Metacast features!
Get Metacast podcast app for Android and iOS at https://metacast.app.
Join the r/metacastapp subreddit.
Segments
- [01:26] New features in Metacast
- [01:42] Sleep timer
- [06:21] Speed control
- [12:32] Grid view in playlists
- [15:37] Goals for the next month
- [17:07] Our chat with a VC-backed startup founder
- [28:56] Podcast and books recommendations
Show notes
Podcasts
- Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
- 7. Jason Fried on building products, calm companies and the Jeff Bezos investment - Builders Gonna Build
- My Dad Wrote A Porno
- The Big Porn Debate (3 Experts Debate): The Unseen Dangers Of Nofap, The Adult Industry Is Exploiting Our Brains, How Porn Will Change Your Brain! - The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Books
- Obviously Awesome by April Dunford
Other
Get in touch
- 🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: https://metacast.app
- 👥 Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/metacastapp/
- ✉️ Subscribe to Metacast newsletter: https://www.metacastpodcast.com
- 👋 Send feedback or say hi: hello@metacastpodcast.com
- 📕 Get our book! The Pragmatic Podcaster: a step-by-step guide to starting an amazing podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW
- 👚 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com
We've launched with a price of $49.99/year, but we realized it's too high. We're lowering it to $19.99/year or $1.99/month.
Get Metacast podcast app for Android and iOS at https://metacast.app.
Join the r/metacastapp subreddit.
Segments
- [01:14] How we decided to lower the price for Metacast
- [03:03] Initially we had three plans
- [04:48] Pulling the andon cord
- [06:40] One password app's reference point
- [08:21] Why we're not adding ads
- [11:35] Enshittification of consumer apps
- [14:21] Our costs for running the app
- [17:52] Rolling out the pricing change
- [20:05] Podcast and book recommendations
Show notes
Podcasts
- Previous episodes with Jennie: 42. Equity compensation at a pre-revenue bootstrapped startup, 17. From Teacher to Software Engineer at Amazon
- Handsome
- The Mark Zuckerberg Interview - Acquired
- Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT - Hard Fork
- #446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America - Lex Fridman Podcast
- #369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca - Lex Fridman Podcast
- #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God - Lex Fridman Podcast
Books
- Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets by Constantinos C. Markides, Paul A. Geroski
Get in touch
- 🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: https://metacast.app
- 👥 Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/metacastapp/
- ✉️ Subscribe to Metacast newsletter: https://www.metacastpodcast.com
- 👋 Send feedback or say hi: hello@metacastpodcast.com
- 📕 Get our book! The Pragmatic Podcaster: a step-by-step guide to starting an amazing podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW
- 👚 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com