We had our first existential crisis when Apple announced that they're adding transcripts to Apple Podcasts. We panicked for a few minutes, regrouped, and decided to ship Metacast in open beta ASAP.

On the episode, Arnab, Ilya and Jennie discuss the whole ordeal as it was happening.

Get Metacast at ⁠metacast.app⁠.

Join the r/metacastapp subreddit.

Segments

[01:09 ] Launch stages at Google and Amazon

[07:21 ] Our secret sauce

[13:00 ] Why we decided to start talking about the app openly

[17:22 ] Our first existential crisis

[31:07 ] Re-evaluation of priorities

[34:35 ] Building a community on Reddit

[38:03 ] Books and podcasts recommendations

Links

Metacast

• Get Metacast for iOS and Android

  
  



• r/metacastapp subreddit

  
  

Podcasts

• Interview with Christian Selig on Builders Gonna Build

  
  



• Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

  
  



• The Game w/ Alex Hormozi

  
  

Books

• Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz

  
  



• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

  
  



• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White

  
  



• Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners by Paul Noble

  
  



• Next Steps in Spanish with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners by Paul Noble

  
  



• Bone by Jeff Smith

  
  



• Sandman by Neil Gaiman

  
  



• Dog Man by Dav Pilkey

  
  



• We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 by Dennis E. Taylor

  
  



• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

  
  

Shows

• Queer Eye on Netflix

Get in touch

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