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Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire

by wenbin 5y ago

Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to consuming web contents, I don’t bookmark entire websites. I just search on google, read the web page, then move on :) [1] https://www.listennotes.com https://www.listennotes.com [edit] This is my Show HN of Listen Notes in early 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310834

zachwill 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of Listen Notes!
- wenbin 5y ago
  Thank you :)
zigzaggy 5y ago
Whoa! I'm glad I found this. I think it'll fit into my writing workflow. Thanks!
- wenbin 5y ago
  Most searches are about people's names, e.g., book author's name, a celebrity's name, a CEO's name... And you can curate playlists of episodes by topic / people, e.g., - Scott Galloway https://lnns.co/0LWEK3dhSfy https://lnns.co/0LWEK3dhSfy - Female VCs: https://lnns.co/depiDjM1XvQ https://lnns.co/depiDjM1XvQ - More playlists: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-playlists/ https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-playlists/
mr_o47 5y ago
I love listen notes, It has made it easier to search for specific podcast which I had to discover myself. now I just use Listen Notes to search with few keywords and I’m able to find the podcast for my taste. Anyways love your product and I definitely enjoyed reading your article on medium where you talked about how you ran the entire company as a solo dev and that’s how I discovered ListenNotes back then
Moosdijk 5y ago
The captcha experience was awful but the search was perfect.
srhrshr 5y ago
I'm curious to know if you thought about building the capability of searching through the audio itself - did you run into transcription costs being a limitation?
theSealedTanker 5y ago
I applied for listen notes API request but didn't get a reply back. I hope you get this sorted out. Time is valuable

by wenbin 5y ago

zachwill 5y ago

I'm a huge fan of Listen Notes!

wenbin 5y ago
Thank you :)

zigzaggy 5y ago

Whoa! I'm glad I found this. I think it'll fit into my writing workflow. Thanks!

wenbin 5y ago
Most searches are about people's names, e.g., book author's name, a celebrity's name, a CEO's name... And you can curate playlists of episodes by topic / people, e.g., - Scott Galloway https://lnns.co/0LWEK3dhSfy https://lnns.co/0LWEK3dhSfy - Female VCs: https://lnns.co/depiDjM1XvQ https://lnns.co/depiDjM1XvQ - More playlists: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-playlists/ https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-playlists/

mr_o47 5y ago

I love listen notes, It has made it easier to search for specific podcast which I had to discover myself. now I just use Listen Notes to search with few keywords and I’m able to find the podcast for my taste. Anyways love your product and I definitely enjoyed reading your article on medium where you talked about how you ran the entire company as a solo dev and that’s how I discovered ListenNotes back then

Moosdijk 5y ago

The captcha experience was awful but the search was perfect.

srhrshr 5y ago

I'm curious to know if you thought about building the capability of searching through the audio itself - did you run into transcription costs being a limitation?

theSealedTanker 5y ago

I applied for listen notes API request but didn't get a reply back. I hope you get this sorted out. Time is valuable