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, search for content, and bookmark segments. Chapters, automated playlists, listening history & stats, and much more is coming. On this podcast, co-founders of Metacast talk about building the company and the product.
In this holiday episode, we celebrate reaching over 300 paying subscribers and 1,500 monthly active users. We also discuss recent backend infrastructure optimizations, critical bug fixes, and future plans, including a new pro plan with expanded features like higher private podcast limits and custom audio uploads.
Chapters:
[00:00] Introduction
[00:47] Business updates
[04:55] Recent projects: cost optimizations, bug fixes, CVEs
[12:36] Future plans
[15:59] Recommendations
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7 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
72. New features & LLM-induced drama inside the team
New app features: listening history, continue listening, and transcript exports + navigating LLM-induced team drama.
Chapters:
[00:00] Welcome and business update
[02:13] Metacast v1.25 Overview
[02:50] New Feature: Listening History
[08:08] New Feature: Continue Listening
[12:41] New Feature: Exporting Transcripts
[20:24] Website outage
[22:21] The Pro Tier in v1.26
[23:06] Team conflict: LLM miscommunication
[31:21] LLM Etiquette in Teams
[35:50] Podcast & book recommendations
[45:34] P.S. We're YouTube stars (FWIW)
Links
Metacast v1.25 blog post (https://metacast-web-app-git-bugfix-downgrade-isomorphi-259ede-metacast.vercel.app/blog/product/v1.25-history-and-continue-listening)
Podcasts:
Tech Brew Ride Home Oct 16 (https://metacast.app/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home/Le6zAYnX/a-300-trillion-oopsie/Lb8NXzyC)
Scott & Mark: The AI productivity trap (https://metacast.app/podcast/scott-and-mark-learn-to/In05oYis/scott-and-mark-learn-to-the-ai-productivity-trap-senior-boost-junior-drag/eZ8CwdgV)
American Gods (https://amzn.to/49ICTV9)
The Sandman (https://amzn.to/3WMfudT)
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13 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
71. Survaviversary: We survived 1 year in production + limited time sale for new users
We celebrate Metacast's one-year "survivalversary" with a special $10/year sale and share what we're working on.
Chapters:
[00:28] - State of the business
[05:20] - The Survaviversary
[09:16] - New creator transcript feature
[16:04] - Upcoming playlist and history features
[21:25] - Podcast recommendations
Links
Survaviversary (https://metacast.app/blog/company/first-survaviversary-sale) blog post
Creator transcripts (https://metacast.app/blog/product/creator-provided-transcripts-on-mobile) blog post
Tip Jar for supporters: Buy Me A Coffee (https://buymeacoffee.com/metacast)
Podcasts:
The Panel (https://metacast.app/podcast/the-panel/W1xTBnDg)
Big Think (https://metacast.app/podcast/big-think/0JmsWumr)
Endless: A Sandman Podcast (https://metacast.app/podcast/endless-a-sandman-podcast/GRYYPdnP)
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Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player)
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73. Holiday update
Published 25 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But these are all good signs. It's gonna keep growing. It looks like people are finding value. So that's good. Totally. I think what we also seen after most of our subscribers started to come from SEO, I think we started to see a lot more monthly subscriptions. And I think monthly users are a little bit more fickle because sometimes they use it for a few months and then fall off. But also we get a lot more notifications. It's actually really fun to see like somebody renewing the subscription month after month, whereas in annual subscription, they paid ones, right? But then they may fall off and we actually we don't know, right? […]
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