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by dabluck 3mo ago
> there is so much blind hate against subscriptions, with little (if any) consideration for a sustainable software business. This is correct thanks for the comment. You will enjoy my next post which is about exactly this. (HN will not en
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by dabluck 3mo ago
Hmm fair comment I guess I could've elaborated. I've definitely done a lot of this, but you would be surprised how often you don't build goodwill even when you do resolve the problem.
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by dabluck 3mo ago
Yes thanks added. Next article: "What I got wrong: Marketing 101"
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by dabluck 3mo ago
This is a good point and was a good learning for me. Sometimes people just want to vent or whatever to a corporate email, then they actually aren't delighted at all when a person answers addressing their concern.
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by dabluck 3mo ago
Haha, I meant it the way I said it but I see what you're getting at. Perhaps it's better to say one person was genuinely surprised we work on the product all the time and it has to maintained, etc and was happy to support it since
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by dabluck 3mo ago
On the contrary I care a great deal, an unreasonable amount really, but since it isn't my primary gig my time is limited and I have to try to spend it where it is most effective.
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by dabluck 3mo ago
Pricing is a bad example I guess I should've minimized that part of the post. I guess I didn't think about it enough, but if someone emailed in with a feature request, or with an opinion that this tab should behave differently or
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by dabluck 3mo ago
Thanks it's hard to find time to do 30 minute calls as this is a glorified side project, but I actually had the same idea and recorded some calls with customers for public consumption as I thought might improve some of this communicati
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by dabluck 3mo ago
Thanks for reading. I'm not sure what you think is scummy unless it's just having a subscription? If so, you are going to love my next article on how subscription apps are the best invention ever and the only business model that m
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Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped(uncommonapps.nyc)
348 points by dabluck 3mo ago|199 comments
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Castro Podcasts – iPad and Device Sync(castro.fm)
2 points by dabluck 1y ago|0 comments
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Castro Podcasts – State of the App: Year 1(castro.fm)
1 points by dabluck 2y ago|0 comments
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Castro Podcasts – Transcript Tag Support(castro.fm)
1 points by dabluck 2y ago|0 comments
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by dabluck 2y ago
We are going to add transcriptions soon for podcasts that include it in their feeds. No plans to add autog-enerated transcripts anytime soon, I'd rather show the feed that creators intend listeners to see.
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by dabluck 2y ago
It sort of does both. The idea behind the app was you should just play it and not worry about the implementation detail. We need to get better at managing the storage space and showing the user what is in the cache.
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by dabluck 2y ago
We support WebSub. It helps on the margins, but many feeds do not use it and also it isn't 100% reliable.
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by dabluck 3y ago
man the year 10,000 is really going to break a lot of software systems that assume a 4 digit year
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by dabluck 3y ago
This is exactly backwards. Google will happily not index any of your content with a simple robots.txt file. These companies are desperate for Google's traffic. They should be paying Google for it!
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by dabluck 3y ago
Thanks!
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Show HN: Turtlecast Podcast Player – Android App(play.google.com)
3 points by dabluck 3y ago|2 comments