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by wenbin 5y ago
Nice product execution! If you want to provide easy onboarding for users to search & select episodes, we've got a podcast search api: https://www.listennotes.com/api/
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Andrew Wilkinson, co-founder of Tiny, has done a lot of podcast interviews. If you consider selling your business to Tiny, you should listen to a few of his interviews first to learn about his startup journey, Tiny's approach of buying
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Businesses are willing to pay premium price for peace of mind. As an individual, we certainly would think twice to spend $xxx/month. But as a business, the psychology of money is totally different.
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How to evaluate a 3rd party RESTful API?(listennotes.com)
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Awesome story!
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Yes. some numbers: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/ Listen Notes was started in early 2017 as a side project, when there were ~23 million episodes. I remembered seeing the number of web pages indexed by Googl
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You should add the podcast search engine https://www.listennotes.com/
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I feel that search engine is hot again :) A recent well-executed one: neeva.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27675408 Then you.com today. For anyone who wants to build a search engine, just look at DuckDuckGo's
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I accidentally built a Podcast API business(listennotes.com)
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Solo founder here. (Typed on my phone) I’ve been running my small company for 4 years so far. It’s a podcast search engine & api. Product & infra & Devop & all kinds of manual processes all evolve over the past 4 years. Thin
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Great customer service is the best marketing :) Oftentimes, I would prefer using a product from a responsible sole developer, rather than from a faceless big corp.
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Speed of iterating product features: * Google Videos had to do things the right way. It had to support tons of users on day 1. It had to ensure very high code quality. * YouTube engineers were good, but they had lower bar to ship productio
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Numbers of tech companies when they were small(listennotes.com)
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Typically, api is charged based on usage, which means you use the api first, then you pay. It’s likely that some users sign up, use the api, and never pay, e.g., use a debit card with low balance. Turn the table. If you were running such an
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Show HN: Chrome extension to see if a website produces any podcasts(chrome.google.com)
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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&#x2
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Thank you :)
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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 podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to po
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A perfect phone for me: A not-so-smart phone with a physical keyboard + simple messaging features (e.g., plain text email, sms) + simple reading features (e.g., readable mode web pages, rss reader).
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How I accidentally built a Podcast API business(lnns.co)
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The open podcast system is growing strong: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/ However, 50%+ of all rss-based podcasts are hosted on Anchor, which is owned by Spotify.
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Book metadata quality is extremely important and it's hard to get right in a short timeframe (e.g., < 3 years). Over the past decade, Goodreads builds a huge army of volunteer members (120,000+) to help correct book metadata [1][2].
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by wenbin 6y ago
Anthony, this is awesome!
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Show HN: View RSS source code on mobile devices(listennotes.com)
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Show HN: Inca.fm – Like Clubhouse, but on a Website(inca.fm)
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Waiting for "I can build this over a weekend" comment on Hacker News :)
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Jira v1 used to be sold AUD 800 a copy, one-time fee(lnns.co)
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It’s expected that comments on this thread would be divided into two camps, from both sides of the table - customers and service providers.
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47% of all podcasts were created in 2020(listennotes.com)
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The cost of building initial version of Calendly: a little over $20k https://lnns.co/2trUaeuOwNB

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