Metacast: Behind the scenes

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Metacast is a podcast app for podcast lovers. We are building a powerful tool that helps you get the most out of podcasts. Auto-generated transcripts and chapters allow you to quickly skim episodes, s... more

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Metacast: Behind the scenes episodes:

July 26, 2025Weekly-ish Update (July 26, 2025): Private podcasts are now generally available!
We've GA-ed private podcasts! In this episode, we talk about the feature, the extra perks for Premium users and celebrate completion of the table stakes features. We end the episode with a banter about Claude Code and a few German phrases.
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Michelin Guide: The Tire Company That Accidentally Conquered Food on The Best Idea Yet
Falling In Reverse - "Watch The World Burn" (live)
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15min
July 15, 2025Weekly-ish Update (July 15, 2025): On the finishing line to launch v1.22, ops-heavy week, web app updates
We're on the finishing line to launch private podcasts in GA, but it takes a while because we've wasted a lot of time dealing with ops post-Google billing incident.
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Back To The Future... And Back - 40 Years of Marty, Doc, & Mayor Goldie Wilson on Talk Is Jericho
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9min
July 03, 2025Weekly-ish Update (June 30, 2025): Preparing to launch private podcasts, marketing stuff, huge bill from Google
Preparing to launch private podcasts, marketing projects, ops stuff, and a huge (with a capital "H") bill from Google
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The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses” on My First Million
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
Flybot by Dennis E. Taylor
Dennis E. Taylor, author of best-selling sci-fi series Bobiverse on Builders Gonna Build
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13min
June 13, 2025Weekly-ish Update (June 12, 2025): Private podcasts, podcast search on web app, making money
Every week, we meet for a standup. We summarize our progress in short weekly updates that we record right after our meetings.
In this update, we discuss launching private feeds, the new podcast search feature on the web app, and making money.
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Bobbi Althof's The Really Good Podcast
Andre Agassi on Served
News in Slow Spanish
The Game with Alex Hormozi
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12min
May 24, 2025Weekly Update (May 24, 2025): Podcast summaries, private feeds, in-person meetup!
Every week, we meet for a standup. We summarize our progress in short weekly updates that we record right after our meetings.
In this update, we discuss episode summaries, chapters, and performance improvements. We also cover ongoing backend work, in-person meeting experience (!), planning for upcoming features like private feeds, and share podcast recommendations.
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Asterix and Obelix on Netflix
Everything Everywhere Daily
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10min
May 14, 202569. New podcast sharing experience (QR codes FTW!)
In this episode we discuss why and how we built the new sharing experience (see blog post for v1.19).
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Segments
[00:20] Opening
[00:57] New weekly update episodes
[05:22] New podcast sharing experience in Metacast
[06:52] Why we are working on sharing?
[09:32] The new sharing experience
[14:35] QR codes
[16:51] Optimized image loading
[17:53] Problems with the old URL sharing
[23:04] The technical solution for consistently working app links
[24:43] The complexity of the change
[28:45] Preview of the next episode about rebranding
[33:26] Recommendations
Show notes
New sharing experience announcement blog
Latest weekly update episode: Weekly Update (May 6, 2025): New sharing experience, new logo & branding
67. Attack of LLM bots (podcast) + blog
Episode with Jennie: 42. Equity compensation at a pre-revenue bootstrapped startup with Jennie Buechner
Voices in my head by Falling in Reverse
Get in touch
🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://metacast.app⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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45min
May 07, 2025Weekly Update (May 6, 2025): New sharing experience, new logo & branding
Every Tuesday, we meet for a weekly standup. We summarize our progress in short weekly updates that we record right after our meetings.
Show notes
311: The Long Term on Under the Radar
When Exactly Did the Roman Empire Fall? on Everything Everywhere Daily
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12min
April 30, 2025Weekly Update (Apr 30, 2025): Upgrade hell & preparing v1.19
Every Tuesday, we meet for a weekly standup. We summarize our progress in short weekly updates that we record right after our meetings.
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Calendar Reform on Everything Everywhere Daily
10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna on Lenny's Podcast
317: Optimizing for Battery Life on Under the Radar
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9min
April 22, 2025Weekly Update: What we've done last week and what we're working on next
Every Tuesday, we meet for a weekly standup. We'll summarize our progress in short weekly updates that we record right after our meetings.
Show notes
Attack of the LLM bots (blog post)
Big Takeaways From Podcast Movement Evolutions 2025 on Buzzcast
Episode 2 - “Through the Valley” on HBO's The Last of Us Podcast
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12min
April 17, 202568. Q1 Update: new features, struggles, hope
In this episode we recap our Q1: what we shipped, distribution challenges, siloing engineering workstreams + a bunch of tangential topics.
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Segments
[00:00] Opening
[02:09] New feature: Chapters
[05:27] New feature: Following a.k.a. Podcast Inbox
[06:17] Feedback from Grumpy Old Geeks
[08:10] Ilya turning into full-time engineer
[12:02] We don't vibe code!
[14:49] AI summaries in the web app
[16:52] Full transcripts in the web app
[18:39] Web is the innovation platform
[19:45] Better sharing images
[21:01] New blogging framework
[24:08] Restarting marketing
[26:05] The distribution challenge
[27:13] Discoverability on App Store
[28:34] The cold start problem
[30:04] 1000 fans
[30:56] Distractions in Q1
[31:15] Spiking GCP costs
[33:52] LLM bots update
[34:28] Taxes
[37:55] Siloing
[39:20] Working in person again!
[40:11] What we're listening to
[48:20] Where people can find us
Show notes

Blog posts
Metacast: Q1 2025 Retrospective
Our biggest struggle — distribution
Episode chapters now available in Metacast podcast app
Podcast Inbox now available in Metacast podcast app
LLM bots + Next.js image optimization = recipe for bankruptcy (post-mortem)
DIY Delaware C-Corp taxes for a new startup with no funding, no payroll and no assets
Podcasts
661: The Nightmare Before Overcast on Grumpy Old Geeks
Everything Everywhere Daily
Do trade deficits matter? on Planet Money
Josh Waitzkin on The Joe Rogan Experience
#792: Seth Godin on Playing the Right Game and Strategy as a Superpower
Books
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
Get in touch
🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://metacast.app⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
👥 Join our subreddit: ⁠⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/metacastapp/⁠⁠
✉️ Subscribe to Metacast newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.metacastpodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
👋 Send feedback or say hi: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠
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50min

FAQs about Metacast: Behind the scenes:

How many episodes does Metacast: Behind the scenes have?

The podcast currently has 83 episodes available.