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We sat down with Christian and Antoine, co-founders of a podcast insights platform Podder (https://www.podderapp.com), and discussed why podcast analytics is such a pain. We talked a bit about technical complexities of the distributed podcasting ecosystem and how Podder aggregates data across multiple platforms and data sources to provide podcasters with cross-platform insights. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/018-podcast-analytics-with-podder We’re always ha...
Join hosts Ilya and Arnab with guest Jenny Buechner, a former teacher who successfully transitioned to a software engineering career at Amazon after attending Ada Developers Academy. Jenny shares her journey, highlights the unique aspects of the Ada program for women and gender-expansive adults, and discusses common challenges and strengths of career switchers. The conversation delves into the importance of diversity and representation in tech teams, reflections on their own podcasting experience, and Jenny shares her favorite podcast recommendations.
An Interview with Women Who Code's Communications Team - Kimberly Jacobs and JL Lewitin. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/016-women-who-code-and-record-podcasts We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Ilya's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ilyabezdelev Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter where we...
We recorded this episode when Ilya was visiting Arnab in Vancouver. This is the first time we did it in person and boy did it make a difference. Enjoy the sparkle of a wonderful human connection! Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/015-in-person-metasode We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/...
A conversation about early days of Winamp, Justin's time at AOL, creation of Reaper and questions from our listeners! Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/014-justin-frankel-creator-winamp-reaper We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter where we announce new epis...
The video we never published, hugging guitars and missing the office. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/013-the-slowsode-metasode We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter where we announce new episodes, publish key takeaways, and ramble about interesting stuff...
In this episode we sat down with hosts of the Software Misadventures podcast Ronak Nathani and Guang Yang to chat about podcasting, careers and remote work. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/012-podcasting-misadventures We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter...
A reflection on the previous episode with the hosts of the Hearts in Taiwan podcast and a random chatter about everything (as usual). Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/011-the-metaiwan-metasode We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter where we announce new epi...
A conversation with hosts of the Hearts in Taiwan podcast, Angela Yu and Annie Wang, about culture, identity and running a podcast that touches on sensitive topics Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/010-hearts-in-taiwan We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter ...
In this metasode (meta-episode about creating Metacast, our podcast about podcasting), Arnab and I go back to the topic we brought up in the very first episode. We talk about the importance of checklists that we ourselves consistently failed to use for our podcast. This has caused us to forgot to ask people’s names, forgot to mention where to find them, etc., etc. Being lousy doesn’t feel good... Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/009-the-czech-police-metasode W...
A conversation with Zach Moreno and Rock Felder about their journey of creating podcast recording software SquadCast. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/008-squadcast-founders-zach-moreno-rock-felder We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter where we announce ne...
Back in December 2022, Arnab and Ilya sat down to record episode 7, a metasode about podcasting. But we started talking about The Sandman and Dune and got carried away so far into the sci-fi land that we didn’t talk about podcasting at all. On the other hand, I got to show off my terrible guitar playing skills completely butchering Enter Sandman! We got to talk about all of our favorite sci-fi authors, books, and movies. We discuss Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic series, its Audible version, and the...
In this metasode (meta-episode where we talk about our own podcasting experience), Arnab and Ilya discuss how the previous recording went, how to deal with initial awkwardness, and how to fix audio quality. We go through a few most important audio repair effects in the iZotope RX software and cover things like removing echo, breaths, mouth clicks (yuck!), hums, noises, and other unwanted artifacts that make you sound like a rookie. It wouldn’t have been a good metasode if we didn’t go on tangent...
This week we interviewed Steph Colbourn, the CEO of editaud.io, a full-suite podcast production company that produces one of our favorite shows about business and technology — The Postlight Podcast. They also produce The Stack Overflow Podcast, radio shows for Google, and bunch of other shows enjoyed by people all over the world, including their own originals! Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/006-podcasting-hacks-steph-colbourn We’re always happy to hear back ...
Arnab and Ilya react to Jonathan Courtney's (the guest of our previous episode!) new podcast "The Unscheduled CEO" and ramble about the usual podcasting stuff like multi-track recording, NSA dropping in to give us a 5-star review, and dog farts. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/005-unscheduled-reflections-metasode We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: [email protected] Ilya’s Instagram: @podcast...
Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney, formerly of the Product Breakfast Club podcast, join Metacast to discuss their unique, rambling approach to podcasting born from their strong chemistry. They share the origin story of their show, their philosophy on avoiding strict schedules and embracing an unscheduled life even while running businesses, and how they navigated criticism and controversial topics. The conversation delves into the freedom and challenges of independent work versus corporate life, the power of moments, and finding creative activities that provide value regardless of external reception.
In this inaugural metasode, we chat about our first and second episodes, checklists, Napster, bootstrapping a podcast in listening apps, internet porn, and room tone. Sounds like a pretty random list but the conversation flowed so well, so believe it or not, it’s actually a cohesive set of topics. We also discussed Arnab’s reflections on being a first-time podcast host and how both of us made a mistake of trying to get feedback from our families. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.me...
For our second episode (and the very first one with a guest!), we sat down with Brian McCullough, creator of the Internet History Podcast , one of Ilya’s all-time favorite podcasts. Brian’s current podcast is Techmeme Ride Home , a popular daily summary of tech news that has over a million downloads every month. Brian is also an investor running the Ride Home Fund and a resident at TED (check out Brian’s talk ). Brian is on Twitter as @brianmcc ( https://twitter.com/brianmcc ). Full show notes w...
In this inaugural episode, Arnab interviews his Metacast co-host Ilya on his experience starting a podcast. We talk about inspiring stuff like how to get used to the sound of your voice, the boring stuff like gear, tools and software, and random stuff like how Ilya lost all of his gear when his car was broken into on a road trip in California. Full show notes with links to gear and tools is here: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/001-dirty-secrets-of-clean-sound (sorry folks, there’s so m...
