We broke Metacast just before launching it in open beta. Ouch.

On this episode, we talk about the launch, how it went, and what we’ve learned.

Get Metacast at ⁠⁠metacast.app⁠⁠.

Join the ⁠r/metacastapp⁠ subreddit.

Segments

[02:13 ] Get The Pragmatic Podcaster book for free

[03:33 ] We broke Metacast just before launch

[08:39 ] How we fixed the problem

[14:04 ] The other way we broke the app

[16:27 ] Publishing to Apple and Google

[20:04 ] Marketing for open beta

[24:10 ] Business metrics

[30:38 ] This is just the beginning

[34:20 ] Podcast and book recommendations

Links

Metacast

• Get Metacast for iOS and Android

  
  



• r/metacastapp subreddit

  
  



• The Pragmatic Podcaster book by Ilya

  
  

Open beta launch content and mentions

• Reddit post

  
  



• LinkedIn post

  
  



• Pod News mention

  
  

Tools

• Tramline - CI/CD for mobile apps

  
  

Podcasts

• Metacast Ep. 40 - Automating mobile app releases with Tramline founders

  
  



• Builders Gonna Build

  
  



• Podcast Marketing Trends Explained

  
  



• We Tried the Apple Vision Pro + Can Congress Protect Kids Online? + Cruise’s Crash on the Hard Fork podcast

  
  



• The Vision Pro Reviews Are Here on the Techmeme Ride Home podcast

  
  



• Zuckerberg on the Vision Pro vs. Quest (video)

  
  



• How the Acquired podcast grew, and why they switched to Transistor on the Build Your SaaS podcast

  
  



• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on the Acquired podcast

  
  



• Charlie Munger on the Acquired podcast

  
  

Books

• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

  
  



• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

  
  



• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

  
  

Get in touch

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• ✉️ 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