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Tech & Non-Tech Stacks to Run Listen Notes (2025)

Tech & Non-Tech Stacks to Run Listen Notes (2025)

2025年2月18日 · How we run Listen Notes?

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Use BetterStack to Replace PagerDuty, Datadog, and Atlassian Statuspage—and Cut Costs by 90%

Use BetterStack to Replace PagerDuty, Datadog, and Atlassian Statuspage—and Cut Costs by 90%

2025年2月6日 · Listen Notes replaced Datadog, PagerDuty, and Statuspage with BetterStack, significantly cutting costs while retaining monitoring, alerting, and public status pages.

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Notebook LM: A threat to the Podcasting World

Notebook LM: A threat to the Podcasting World

2024年10月7日 · Bad for Listeners. Bad for Podcast Creators. Bad for Advertisers. Bad for Hosting Platforms.

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Why Podcasts Are My New Wikipedia —the Perfect Informal Learning Resource

Why Podcasts Are My New Wikipedia —the Perfect Informal Learning Resource

2024年1月11日 · In this article, I explain why podcasts replaced a lot of my Wikipedia usage for informal learning. I also talk about how I listen to five-plus hours of podcasts every day!

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How to build a ChatGPT plugin: A case study using PodcastAPI.com and serverless Cloudflare Pages for AI-powered podcast discovery

How to build a ChatGPT plugin: A case study using PodcastAPI.com and serverless Cloudflare Pages for AI-powered podcast discovery

2023年6月20日 · We'll use the Listen Notes ChatGPT plugin as a case study to illuminate the process of creating a ChatGPT plugin.

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A practical way to upgrade Postgres major versions with near-zero downtime

A practical way to upgrade Postgres major versions with near-zero downtime

2022年8月15日 · During two major Postgres upgrades, we experienced zero downtime for “read” operations, and less than 1 minute downtime for “write” operations.

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How do people use Listen Notes?

How do people use Listen Notes?

2022年7月4日 · I’ve got a bunch of emails from Listen Notes users. Now I have a better understanding what people use Listen Notes for.

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Instead of Monthly Billing, a Daily Alternative for SaaS

Instead of Monthly Billing, a Daily Alternative for SaaS

2022年6月24日 · Our website, Listen Notes (the best podcast search engine), provides daily billing for our Premium Membership customers.

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How I accidentally built a Podcast API business

How I accidentally built a Podcast API business

2021年12月20日 · 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.

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How to evaluate a 3rd party RESTful API?

How to evaluate a 3rd party RESTful API?

2021年11月26日 · 1, To build or to buy? 2, Can this API provide features you need? 3, Is this API both stable and scalable? 4, How easily can you talk to a real human employee of the API vendor?

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What is Listen Notes? Why does Listen Notes need to make money?

What is Listen Notes? Why does Listen Notes need to make money?

2020年10月2日 · Essentially, Listen Notes is an independent podcast database that has three UIs (User Interface) to access the data.

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Numbers of tech companies when they were small

Numbers of tech companies when they were small

2020年5月8日 · 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.

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Listen Notes for Chrome

Listen Notes for Chrome

2019年12月1日 · We just launched a Chrome extension! You can search podcasts / episodes right from your Chrome browser without opening ListenNotes.com.

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Introducing Llamacorn!!!

Introducing Llamacorn!!!

2019年9月21日 · I went to Peru last month and saw Llama… After I came back, I decided to make Llama the mascot of Listen Notes.

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Some API improvements

Some API improvements

2019年5月20日 · Better documentation. Better performance. Bigger thumbnail images.

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How to submit a new podcast to Listen Notes database

How to submit a new podcast to Listen Notes database

2019年4月9日 · If you are a podcaster or you are a podcast hosting service, you may want to submit new podcasts to Listen Notes database.

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Listen API v2: simple pricing & same endpoints

Listen API v2: simple pricing & same endpoints

2019年3月27日 · We just launched a new(-ish) version of Listen API. We call it “Listen API v2”.

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Good enough engineering to start an Internet company

Good enough engineering to start an Internet company

2019年3月11日 · 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.

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Listen Explorer: Get similar podcasts

Listen Explorer: Get similar podcasts

2019年1月22日 · The idea is simple: You pick a few podcasts, and you’ll get recommendations for similar podcasts.

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Listen Real-Time: Like Google Analytics Real-Time, but for podcast episodes

Listen Real-Time: Like Google Analytics Real-Time, but for podcast episodes

2018年12月30日 · 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.

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Just Listen™: A simple podcast app for the 99%

Just Listen™: A simple podcast app for the 99%

2018年12月20日 · A very simple & very opinionated podcast app from Listen Notes: Just Listen™!!

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Why a standalone podcast search engine website?

Why a standalone podcast search engine website?

2018年6月29日 · Why Listen Notes is a podcast search engine website? Not an app? Not a podcast player?

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Why Listen Notes doesn’t allow users to review podcasts?

Why Listen Notes doesn’t allow users to review podcasts?

2018年5月14日 · There are ideas that sound wonderful, on paper. Allowing users to review podcasts is such an idea.

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Postmortem on Apr 22, 2018 outage

Postmortem on Apr 22, 2018 outage

2018年4月26日 · 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.

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The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

2018年1月24日 · The tech stack of Listen Notes, the best podcast search engine and database.

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My Y Combinator interview experience (W18)

My Y Combinator interview experience (W18)

2018年1月12日 · 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 :)

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Listen Later ™ is like Instapaper or Pocket, but for podcasts!

Listen Later ™ is like Instapaper or Pocket, but for podcasts!

2017年12月19日 · 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.

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Migrating Listen Notes servers to AWS

Migrating Listen Notes servers to AWS

2017年10月28日 · 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.

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Podcast in 2017 is just like Web in 1997

Podcast in 2017 is just like Web in 1997

2017年10月9日 · Podcast in 2017 & web in 1997 are similar in three aspects: number of users, ad spendings, and contents.

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How to use Listen Notes from Chrome address bar?

How to use Listen Notes from Chrome address bar?

2017年10月3日 · Click “Add” in the “Other search engines” section. Fill these three things.

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Listen Notes 2.0: laying the foundation of future fast iteration

Listen Notes 2.0: laying the foundation of future fast iteration

2017年9月27日 · 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.

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What’s next for Listen Notes?

What’s next for Listen Notes?

2017年9月20日 · The very first official Listen Notes blog post! We used to have a mini-roadmap :)

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Listen Score and Global Rank

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What is Listen Score? Listen Score (LS) is a metric that shows the estimated popularity of this podcast compared to other rss-based public podcasts in the world on a scale from 0 to 100. The higher, the more popular. Calculated from 1st and 3rd party data. Updated monthly.

What is Global Rank? This podcast is one of the top most popular shows out of 3,634,330 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score (the estimated popularity score).

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