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How to evaluate a 3rd party RESTful API? March 2, 2021 · 1, To build or to buy? 2, Can this API provide features you need? 3, Is this API stable and scalable? 4, How easy can you talk to a real human employee of this API vendor? Read more...
How I accidentally built a Podcast API business Dec. 6, 2020 · In this article, I’ll share with you the journey of building this API business, the technology behind it, and hopefully you can learn one thing or two and build your own API business in the future. Read more...
What is Listen Notes? Why does Listen Notes need to make money? Oct. 2, 2020 · Essentially, Listen Notes is an independent podcast database that has three UIs (User Interface) to access the data. Read more...
Numbers of tech companies when they were small May 8, 2020 · This is a blog post that I wish it existed when I started my startup journey. I like collecting numbers (e.g., website traffic, domain name price, revenue…) of tech companies when they were small. Read more...
Listen Notes for Chrome Dec. 1, 2019 · We just launched a Chrome extension! You can search podcasts / episodes right from your Chrome browser without opening ListenNotes.com. Read more...
Introducing Llamacorn!!! Sept. 21, 2019 · I went to Peru last month and saw Llama… After I came back, I decided to make Llama the mascot of Listen Notes. Read more...
Some API improvements May 20, 2019 · Better documentation. Better performance. Bigger thumbnail images. Read more...
How to submit a new podcast to Listen Notes database April 9, 2019 · If you are a podcaster or you are a podcast hosting service, you may want to submit new podcasts to Listen Notes database. Read more...
Listen API v2: simple pricing & same endpoints March 27, 2019 · We just launched a new(-ish) version of Listen API. We call it “Listen API v2”. Read more...
Good enough engineering to start an Internet company March 11, 2019 · I gave a guest lecture in an undergraduate software engineering class (CSCE431) at Texas A&M University a few days ago. Now I’ve turned this lecture into a blog post here, and hopefully some people on the Internet will find this useful. Read more...
Listen Explorer: Get similar podcasts Jan. 22, 2019 · The idea is simple: You pick a few podcasts, and you’ll get recommendations for similar podcasts. Read more...
Listen Real-Time: Like Google Analytics Real-Time, but for podcast episodes Dec. 30, 2018 · Everyone’s saying “podcast discovery is broken”. Okay, here’s another way to discover podcasts — Check out what other people are listening to right now. Read more...
Just Listen™: A simple podcast app for the 99% Dec. 20, 2018 · A very simple & very opinionated podcast app from Listen Notes: Just Listen™!! Read more...
How to import OPML to a podcast app on iOS / Android? Sept. 14, 2018 · An OPML file allows you to transfer your podcast subscriptions between podcast apps without manually subscribing to each podcast. Read more...
Why a standalone podcast search engine website? June 29, 2018 · Why Listen Notes is a podcast search engine website? Not an app? Not a podcast player? Read more...
Why Listen Notes doesn’t allow users to review podcasts? May 14, 2018 · There are ideas that sound wonderful, on paper. Allowing users to review podcasts is such an idea. Read more...
Postmortem on Apr 22, 2018 outage April 26, 2018 · On Apr 22, 2018, Listen Notes website was down for ~4 hours and I lost 10 hours production data. This is the biggest outage since I launched Listen Notes as a side project last year. Read more...
The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company Jan. 24, 2018 · The tech stack of Listen Notes, the best podcast search engine and database. Read more...
My Y Combinator interview experience (W18) Jan. 12, 2018 · I want to be transparent on the process of building Listen Notes, as a product and as a company. If eventually I declare failure of this startup thing, these written documents may still benefit people who come from Google search :) Read more...
Listen Later ™ is like Instapaper or Pocket, but for podcasts! Dec. 19, 2017 · I just built a simple feature, called Listen Later. You can tell what it is from the name :) Yes, it’s like “Watch Later” on YouTube or “Read Later” on Pocket. Read more...
How do people use Listen Notes? Nov. 12, 2017 · I’ve got a bunch of emails from Listen Notes users. Now I have a better understanding what people use Listen Notes for. Read more...
Migrating Listen Notes servers to AWS Oct. 28, 2017 · Well, Listen Notes was a side project of mine. I run all my side projects on Digital Ocean, because it’s cheap & convenient to set up. I decided to migrate the whole backend infrastructure to AWS. Read more...
Podcast in 2017 is just like Web in 1997 Oct. 9, 2017 · Podcast in 2017 & web in 1997 are similar in three aspects: number of users, ad spendings, and contents. Read more...
How to use Listen Notes from Chrome address bar? Oct. 3, 2017 · Click “Add” in the “Other search engines” section. Fill these three things. Read more...
Listen Notes 2.0: laying the foundation of future fast iteration Sept. 27, 2017 · Last week was the first time that I got a chance to work on my projects full-time. It was a very productive week. So, here comes Listen Notes 2.0. Read more...
What’s next for Listen Notes? Sept. 20, 2017 · The very first official Listen Notes blog post! We used to have a mini-roadmap :) Read more...