Metacast: Behind the scenes

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)

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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