I'm building a podcast hosting platform. This is my first podcast ever. Yeah, the irony isn't lost on me.

Most podcast hosts charge you more when you succeed. Your episode goes viral? Here's your overage bill. That's backwards. So I built VNYL, unlimited hosting where success doesn't trigger a billing panic.

In this episode, I break down why podcast hosting has backwards incentives, how modern cloud infrastructure (Cloudflare R2) makes unlimited possible when AWS made it impossible, and why the per-download model from 2005 doesn't make sense in 2025.

I'm building in public, using my own platform, and documenting everything.

VNYL is in free beta now. Join at vnyl.fm