Metacast: Behind the scenes

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Metacast is a podcast app for podcast aficionados. We are building a powerful tool that helps you get the most out of podcasts. Auto-generated transcripts allow you to quickly skim episodes, search for content, and bookmark segments. 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.

Episodes

10. Hearts in Taiwan with Angela Yu and Annie Wang

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: hello@metacastpodcast.com Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Mar 15, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast

9. The Czech Police Metasode

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...

Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast

8. SquadCast Founders on Remote Collaboration in Podcasts

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: hello@metacastpodcast.com Ilya’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/or9ob Subscribe to our newsletter where we announce ne...

Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast

7.5. Bonus Primesode: Enter Sandman, Isaac Asimov and Dogman

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...

Feb 22, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast

7. Metasode: Podcasting Hacks with editaud.io CEO Steph Colbourn

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...

Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast

6. Podcasting Hacks with editaud.io CEO Steph Colbourn

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 ...

Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

5. The Unscheduled Reflections Metasode

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: hello@metacastpodcast.com Ilya’s Instagram: @podcast...

Feb 01, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

4. Jake & Jonathan Do America

We sat down with Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney, the hosts of the Jake and Jonathan (f.k.a. Product Breakfast Club) podcast where they used to ramble about all things product design, Lord of the Rings, toilets, and other important things. Jake Knapp is a former Google designer, an investor, and a New York Times best-selling author of books "Sprint" and "Make Time". Jonathan is the CEO of the product design company AJ&Smart. Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com...

Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

3. The Metasode

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...

Jan 18, 2023•46 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

2. The Past and the Present of the Internet with Brian McCullough

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...

Jan 11, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast

1. Dirty Secrets of Clean Sound with Metacast Hosts Ilya Bezdelev and Arnab Deka

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...

Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast