70. Summer update & Metacast v1.24

Update: 2025-09-11

Description

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

Download the Metacast podcast app for free:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/metacast/id6462012536
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player

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70. Summer update & Metacast v1.24

2025-09-1141:30

Weekly-ish Update (July 26, 2025): Private podcasts are now generally available!

2025-07-2614:01

Weekly-ish Update (July 15, 2025): On the finishing line to launch v1.22, ops-heavy week, web app updates

2025-07-1508:26

Weekly-ish Update (June 30, 2025): Preparing to launch private podcasts, marketing stuff, huge bill from Google

2025-07-0312:26

Weekly-ish Update (June 12, 2025): Private podcasts, podcast search on web app, making money

2025-06-1311:12

Weekly Update (May 24, 2025): Podcast summaries, private feeds, in-person meetup!

2025-05-2409:39

69. New podcast sharing experience (QR codes FTW!)

2025-05-1444:35

Weekly Update (May 6, 2025): New sharing experience, new logo & branding

2025-05-0711:51

Weekly Update (Apr 30, 2025): Upgrade hell & preparing v1.19

2025-04-3008:14

Weekly Update: What we've done last week and what we're working on next

2025-04-2211:04

68. Q1 Update: new features, struggles, hope

2025-04-1749:18

67. Attack of LLM bots

2025-02-2732:12

66. Lowlights of 2024 and what's up for 2025

2025-01-2947:27

65. The first outage and an unexpected save

2024-12-1844:25

64. VC-backed vs. bootstrapped startups

2024-11-1341:18

63. Dropping the price

2024-10-1730:51

62. Rejected by Apple

2024-10-0235:05

61. Confessions of a lonely founder, Flutter & iOS woes, app positioning

2024-09-1838:01

60. First haters, first violations, the launch process and smelling like teen spirit

2024-09-0441:31

59. Metacast for Android launched!

2024-08-1434:00

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