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by wenbin 6y ago
It depends on many different factors, e.g., what’s the SaaS business? do you value your own time? Do you count the opportunity cost? Do you have some existing foundations to build on, e.g., reuse old code base / customer relationship..
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by wenbin 6y ago
Typically, you can’t go beyond 30 pages of google search results, even when it says there are 100,000,000 results. Don’t believe me? Try it. Pick any keyword to search on google, and try going to page 35. Why? My guesses: 1. Most users hav
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by wenbin 6y ago
It depends. In some cases, you do want to spend time to save money, while in other cases, you want to spend money to save time. It's not as simple as optimizing money spent. It's usually "money + time" together.
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ByteDance work schedule: work every other Sunday(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 6y ago
The podcast episode where Kevin Frisch (former Uber head of US/CA performance marketing) talked about this issue: https://listennotes.com/podcasts/marketing-today/historic-ad... All podcast interviews of Kevi
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by wenbin 6y ago
Richard Montañez did quite a few podcast interviews in the past few years: https://lnns.co/aQN_ukyM4J9
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by wenbin 6y ago
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by wenbin 6y ago
Yea, in software development, it’s always work in progress. There’s not a clear finish line. The word “maintenance” can’t perfectly capture the meaning of all the continuous development, small incremental improvements, bug fixes, operationa
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by wenbin 6y ago
Totally agree. Some engineers love to say "I can build this over a weekend". But the main cost is almost always on the maintenance side. I forgot where I saw this number - in the entire lifecycle of a piece of software, (on averag
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I accidentally built a Podcast API business(lnns.co)
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by wenbin 6y ago
Awesome list! I haven't read comments yet, but I bet some people would criticize the tech stack as "too complex" or "not perfect" or "not even mention my favorite tech"... 1. Typically tech stack starts ve
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by wenbin 6y ago
Already contacted Postman customer support :)
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It's built from scratch, which was easier than customizing from some open source projects back then (early 2019). But the doc is codified in openapi format: https://www.listennotes.com/api/docs/#openapi So yo
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by wenbin 6y ago
Many people use our Listen Later playlists to curate podcasts / episodes by topics. Here are some examples: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-playlists/ Each playlist has a rss feed. So you can subscribe to the
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by wenbin 6y ago
Great question! Will add. For itunes api: 1. You can't search episodes 2. You can't get a lot of search results of podcasts. 3. Their terms of use may not allow you to do what you want to do
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by wenbin 6y ago
Thanks for asking! The hardest part is to make small incremental improvements over a long period of time :) Like most software projects, this API is never a finished product. It's always work-in-progress. Small incremental improvements
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Show HN: Podcast API(listennotes.com)
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It's almost impossible to build a decent web search engine from scratch today (i.e., build your own index, fight SEO spams, tweak search result relevance...). The web is already so big and so complex. Otherwise Google won't need t
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by wenbin 6y ago
This is an awesome list! $1k MRR may not sound impressive in Silicon Valley / New York etc., but 1) it's actually pretty good in other places in the world - the world is just too big, too diverse; 2) not many people have the skill
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by wenbin 6y ago
Part of me agree the attitude of "you should be able to figure out things on your own". My point is that since some tools & trivia things really don't matter, we just need good defaults and move on to do things that matte
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by wenbin 6y ago
YC is always doing a good job in educating people on startup things, and they truly inspire a whole generation of founders, including myself. But still, most advices we could find online are too high level, too abstract, too philosophical.
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by wenbin 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this! @vishnumohandas I wish I could've seen more posts like this when I started out ~3 years ago. This is my 35th month as a sole founder. A few things I did to fight "loneliness" as a sole founder: 1, Inv
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by wenbin 6y ago
The musicaly people were already veterans in Silicon Valley tech scene (not young under silicon valley standard & with years of working experience). They raised money to build education product with short videos in it. The education pro
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by wenbin 6y ago
A similar outage happened in July last year: https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage...
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by wenbin 6y ago
Friendly reminder (and notes to myself): Don't use Namecheap and Cloudflare at the same time. Namecheap is using cloudflare. So if cloudflare is down, you can't change DNS settings on Namecheap as well!
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Some of my friends asked me whether they should start a company, I typically suggest them to answer these questions first: - Have you ever made over $10k on your own? Not from your day job salary. Not from public stock market. Making money
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by wenbin 6y ago
The data only include publicly accessible RSS-based podcasts, which is a very narrow definition of podcasts. There are exclusive "podcasts" on Spotify that are not publicly accessible and not distributed via rss. There are other f
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If there's redirect, then we use the final destination url, e.g., http://feeds.podtrac.com/fRt6e7vOZ-19 redirects to civilbeat.org..., so we use civilbeat.org If there's not redirect, then we use the exact url, e.
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No. The data doesn't include any listening activities. But you can see what podcast episodes are people listening to on Listen Notes right now: https://www.listennotes.com/realtime/
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Podcast Stats(listennotes.com)
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