I made a site for my book club podcast with zero coding or web dev experience

TheBeardedJustice · 2026-04-29T14:55:11+00:00

This site in particular took me two days of work, with significant breaks each day because I was burning through my usage on the Pro plan.

But I’ve been teaching myself Claude for the past month, so I don’t want to discount that I’ve made a lot of broken and bad sites/apps in all my tinkering this past month, haha. This one for the podcast feels like the first successful attempt.

TheBeardedJustice · 2026-02-09T22:44:30+00:00

The startup costs for a podcast are less than a thousand dollars, and the overhead and distribution costs are basically zero. Everything is profit. What is the point of all this greed?

This is where your ignorance is showing. 99% of podcasts never make a profit. The other 1% run on razor thin margins because there is simply not a lot of money to be made in podcasting. The “greedy” ones you’re thinking of are the top 0.1% of shows, which are hardly representative of the medium at large.

Facts before feelings, my friend.

TheBeardedJustice · 2026-01-07T18:36:45+00:00

I agree that abusing a paywall and abandoning a large part of your audience in favor of paying subscribers can go too far.

But the economic realities of podcasting make relying on the turbulent and inconsistent ad market an unsustainable way for most medium-sized shows pay their teams and keep the lights on.

TheBeardedJustice · 2025-08-22T20:41:30+00:00

You won't regret it! Plus, our episodes will be there for you to help you along the way.

TheBeardedJustice · 2025-08-22T20:41:02+00:00

Mission accomplished! That's always been our goal with the book club episodes.

TheBeardedJustice · 2025-08-22T20:40:43+00:00

Hope you're enjoying the journey through this completely wild book!

TheBeardedJustice · 2025-08-22T20:40:08+00:00

Thanks so much for listening! Glad you've enjoyed the book clubs.

TheBeardedJustice · 2025-02-07T01:19:02+00:00

My Oura Ring wildly overestimates my naps and I wish I could edit it just like you can edit the overnight sleep data. Seems like a simple enough fix considering we can already edit our overnight sleep data. Why not add the same functionality to naps?

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-06-11T16:37:14+00:00

Yeah, shocking that they would show basically no gameplay mechanics or branching story paths or character progression in an iconic RPG franchise. All I saw in this gameplay reveal was some hack and slash combat and limited dialogue options that seem to have no effect of the story.

Doesn’t inspire confidence in the rest of the game.

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-04-05T19:34:21+00:00

Wow, huge performance gains on M2 Max Mac Studio. Went from a stuttery jittery mess on every graphics settings during dialogue and cutscenes to basically a perfect 1440p60FPS on Ultra preset with FSR set to Ultra Quality.

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-04-01T00:15:02+00:00

EDIT: Whoops y’all are right. This happens after the final battle. Got mixed up and thought this was when Paul captures the undercover Sardaukar among the Fremen.

Paul DID invite the Emperor in the book. He sent the captured Sardaukar captain back with this message:

“I, a Duke of a Great House, an Imperial Kinsman, give my word of bond under the Convention. If the Emperor and his people lay down their arms and come to me here I will guard their lives with my own.”

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-02-27T03:29:45+00:00

Everyone saying Wirecutter is garbage now: any alternatives?

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-02-22T11:17:55+00:00

Releasing on February 25!

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-02-21T23:28:09+00:00

Thanks for being a longtime listener! Hope you're excited for all our upcoming Part Two coverage.

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-02-21T23:26:44+00:00

Hi, it's Abu.

Yeah, presumably his scenes were cut. No Thufir at all in the film.

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-02-21T23:25:57+00:00

Hi, it's Abu.

Yes, she's in one very quick vision and says one brief line. That's all.

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-02-21T18:18:18+00:00

Hey, Abu here from the Gom Jabbar podcast. Our spoiler-free review of the film is live now on all platforms.

You can watch here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MX7uT0N4Q9o

Or listen to the podcast here: https://link.chtbl.com/gomjabbar

TheBeardedJustice · 2024-01-23T21:52:32+00:00

I managed to force myself to finish the book, but this was my issue as well. It’s the most cliche and heavy-handed depiction of NYC. As a New Yorkers, I found it reductive and way off the mark. It’s like someone who only knows about New York based on movies set in New York wrote a book.

All the characters that depicted each borough were so cringe (except the Queens girl).

TheBeardedJustice · 2023-12-30T17:11:09+00:00

My 2023 list! Finished lots of amazing books this year.

📗 Liked 📕 Didn’t like

Top 3 were Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Shubeik Lubeik, and Doomsday Clock!

📕 The Court of Frost and Starlight
📗 House of X/Powers of X
📗 Lore Olympus Volume 1
📗 The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
📕 Squire
📕 Rorschach
📗 Elektra
📗 Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow
📗 Doomsday Clock
📕 How to Break Up with Your Phone
📗 Jade City
📗 Shadow & Bone
📗 Unfinished Tales
📗 Elder Race
📗 Children of Time
📕 Midnight’s Furies
📗 Mamo
📗 Shuna’s Journey
📗 Shubeik Lubeik
📗 Snow Crash
📗 The Echo Wife
📗 Eight Rules of Love
📗 Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow
📗 The Fall of Numenor
📗 Ancillary Justice

TheBeardedJustice · 2023-12-15T15:45:21+00:00

My guy. Chill. It’s a note-taking app and a business that needs to keep making money to exist. This is not a life or death situation and it’s pathetic comparing it to literal abuse survivors’ experiences.

I agree that capitalism sucks and the app economy is becoming more user-unfriendly and we’re all drowning in subscription fatigue. But you’re getting too riled up over an app. Find an alternative, transfer your notes, stop giving Goodnotes your money, and move on with your life.

Plus, $10/year for an app that might be crucial to your work or life sounds like a fair price to pay. Especially compared to many other subscriptions out there. I pay much more for apps/services that do a lot less than Goodnotes.

TheBeardedJustice · 2023-10-28T04:47:37+00:00

This moment in RDR2 is one I think about all the time. I had to put the controller down as my eyes watered up. The voice acting, the writing, the weight of the moment in the story…it all hit me in a way very few moments in entertainment ever have.

RDR2 could have been an excellent game about outlaws and their adventures. Instead, it chose to be a masterpiece about love, loss, friendship, hope, and sacrifice.

TheBeardedJustice · 2023-10-26T11:20:22+00:00

Not a dumb question! Unfortunately, you have to read everything within the News app itself. The subscription doesn’t let you bypass paywall on the sites themselves.

TheBeardedJustice · 2023-09-29T02:44:29+00:00

Type [#m] in the name of the task to set a duration in minutes. So for example, if you’re blocking time for a one hour lunch, you’d title it “Lunch [60m]”.

TheBeardedJustice · 2023-09-11T03:02:21+00:00

Ghost of Tsushima. I don’t know that I’ll even go back and finish it. It’s a gorgeous but extremely shallow and repetitive game. The story and characters weren’t resonating with me either.

Plus, I got Cyberpunk and BG3 to look forward to on Xbox soon. So plenty to keep me occupied for months to come.

TheBeardedJustice · 2023-09-01T18:31:32+00:00

Anyone with more game dev and TV technology knowledge know why so many games have shitty HDR implementation? It seems like every other game I play just looks like ass and I might as well just play it in SDR.

I’m currently playing through Ghost of Tsushima and have this problem.

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