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Toutiao's SVP on their work schedule: 10am-10pm for 5 days + every other Sunday(listennotes.com)
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The boring technology behind Listen Notes(broadcast.listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 9y ago
Okay, so they still make money through traditional centralized things. They do blockchain just like they are doing open source software, where they can't earn cash flow.
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by wenbin 9y ago
I'm always curious how blockchain developers make money except for holding coins or doing the one-time ICO... I started a new thread for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16206218
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Ask HN: How do blockchain companies/developers make money?
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Show HN: Listen Club – Curated lists of podcasts from online articles(listennotes.com)
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Ask HN: Founders, where to find an accountant to help prepare business Tax?
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My Y Combinator interview experience (W18)(broadcast.listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 9y ago
Listen Notes, a podcast search engine that actually works. I'm working on it full-time now. https://www.listennotes.com
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Show HN: Build list with episodes from multi-podcasts. Listen on ANY podcast app(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 9y ago
You can try out my project, a podcast search engine: https://www.listennotes.com/
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Stats of Podcasts and Episodes by year/category/language(broadcast.listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 9y ago
Full transcript sounds appealing, but is it really what people want? For all signals I've got so far, there's not strong use case for podcast transcript. It may be more realistic to ask podcasters to provide good show notes, inste
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by wenbin 9y ago
From iTunes initially. But right now, more and more podcasters submit their podcasts to Listen Notes. Podcasters want their shows to be discovered.
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by wenbin 9y ago
For a podcast search engine, you can take two approaches. 1. Depth first approach. Position yourself as a AI company and do in-audio search, but only index a small set of podcasts. It's like if Google just indexes 1000 web pages and tr
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by wenbin 9y ago
For now, there's a footnote at the bottom of that page :) Sure, I need to make it more clear.
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by wenbin 9y ago
I have meta data of podcasts & episodes in my own database, including title, description, publisher, ... But I don't have transcripts. Everyone says they want transcripts, but after some digging, I decide that transcript is not ver
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by wenbin 9y ago
I want to be frank here: it's from iTunes top chart via their API https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/i... In the future I'll use my own data to come up with my own top chart, e.g.
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by wenbin 9y ago
The API can't be accessed via www.listennotes.com. I host my API on Mashape, where it takes care of some mundane but necessary tasks for building an API, e.g., API key/secret, rate limit, payment, documentation, ... For details, p
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by wenbin 9y ago
I wear AirPods while coding. You know, modern programming work involves a lot of mechanical work... like moving code block around, copy & paste... For such mechanical work, I can multitask by listening to podcasts -- so I don't fee
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Show HN: Listen Notes Podcast Search API(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 9y ago
I'm the maker of Listen Notes. Thanks for sharing Listen Notes here :) Early this year, I was hoping someone could build a very basic podacast search engine that allowed me to search the whole internet's podcast episodes -- search
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by wenbin 9y ago
Thanks! Glad to know that this simple project is useful to people :)
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by wenbin 9y ago
Hello HN, I’m Wenbin, a software engineer in San Francisco & the maker of Listen Notes. Listen Notes is a very simple “I can build this in a weekend”-ish project. It crawls podcasts RSS from iTunes, indexes podcasts meta data in Elastic
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Show HN: Listen Notes – A podcast search engine that actually works(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 9y ago
Y Combinator built something to show YC startups by country: http://world.ycombinator.com/ Well done, YC!
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by wenbin 9y ago
Chinese is in general not as fluent in English as people in India (English is one of its official languages) or other European countries (easily multilingual). For most educated Chinese who don't have overseas experience, reading is pr
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Ask HN: Y Combinator startups by country?
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by wenbin 9y ago
Thanks! Good to know. This ratio is larger than I expected. It would be inspiring for other solo founders who want to apply YC to know this number :)
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by wenbin 9y ago
It would be great if it shows * How many companies with only a single founder? * How many companies are founded by people who are not native english speaker? I mean, an entire non english speaker team, e.g., all of them were born in Russia

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