Justin JacksonTransistor is building video podcast hosting. We are just cranking on it. One of the things that we are trying to do is now seed the LLMs with this new knowledge. Previously, they might have said you know, if people ask, does Transistor do video podcasting? It would have gotten one answer. But now the answer is yes. Transistor.fm does video podcast hosting.
Brian CaselYou haven't shipped this since last week? What's going on? I thought you guys are using Claude Code.
Justin JacksonWe haven't shipped it, but we are it is we were one of only, like, five hosting platforms to actually get a HLS powered video show in Apple Podcasts. We're the only one that also put that HLS feed in the alternate enclosure tag and RSS feeds so that apps like Pocket Casts and Fountain and all these independent apps can also read those HLS video feeds. I'm having so much fun. I'm super excited. And we also just launched integration with Ghost.
So it feels like we're just shipping right now, and it's crazy. There's way too many messages in Slack every day, but I'm having a
Brian Caselgood time.
Justin JacksonSo that's what we're doing.
Brian CaselSaw that ghost, integration announcement. That looks that looks pretty solid. Yeah.
Justin JacksonYeah. It's that was really fun and fun to add another team to our Slack. Like, we did the Slack connect.
Brian CaselMhmm.
Justin JacksonAnd just to interact with another team and see how they build things. I think it was good for our team just to see how much they're using, Claude. And
Brian Caselyeah. I know, like like, John O'Nolan is is big into it and everything. Like Yeah. How I'm just curious, like, how did that perform for you guys? Like, an integration like that? Do do you see a spike in users?
Justin JacksonWe'll we'll see. I mean, my thought is it'll probably give us an extra I don't know. Even if we got an extra 10 to 20 a month from it, it would be Yeah. A success. More of a slow burn.
Brian CaselI'm sure it's a long long tail thing.
Justin JacksonYeah. I I think it just gives us tons of reputation in the community though. Like, so many of the big indie publishers are using Ghost. And we had a lot of shared customers, like four zero four Media and The Lever. So there's these big indie publications that are doing really well, both using Ghost and Transistor.
So it was like, well, let's just marry this. And it's another advantage to going to events. Like, that was me going to LariCon in Dallas, and then John O'Nolan and I were just eating lunch going, man, we got a lot of the same customers. Like, we gotta do something here.
Brian CaselSweet. Yeah.