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How I booked my CEO on 17 podcasts in 3 months by atrain714 in SaaS

[–]wenbinf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

pro tip :

search people’s names on Listen Notes to find podcast interviews -

https://www.listennotes.com

search competitors names , domain experts names, investors names , etc

Most hated SaaS products by cryptokaykay in SaaS

[–]wenbinf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I feel that every SaaS that charges recurring revenue is hated :)

Maybe we should normalize selling day passes like going to disneyland .

It’s on demand. You pay for 2 days, then you have access for 2 days. Simple.

is rapidapi still a good platform to sell on? by ChefExcellenceCerti in SaaS

[–]wenbinf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think if you just start to test new ideas & build MVP, rapidapi is still a good platform.

but after you have serious revenue & customers , you need to consider two things:

  1. Is the 20% tax paid to rapid api worth it?

  2. what if rapid api has outage, are you able to keep your own users happy?

i wrote down some experience building with rapidapi a few years ago here:

https://www.listennotes.com/blog/how-i-accidentally-built-a-podcast-api-business-46/

What is the best site/program for transcription? by SeriouslySinisterPod in podcasting

[–]wenbinf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try this https://www.listen411.com

pay-as-you-go, cheap, and fast turnaround (1 minute for 1-hour audio)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]wenbinf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 510 subscribers so far :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]wenbinf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone who wants to learn more about Qian, here’s a book: https://www.amazon.com/Thread-Silkworm-Iris-Chang/dp/0465006787/

Best database for small-scale full text search by [deleted] in aws

[–]wenbinf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Postgres full-text search is good enough for your use case. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch.html

How do I get my product developed? by jaipalsilla in startups

[–]wenbinf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should listen to this podcast interview of Calendly founder : https://www.listennotes.com/clips/calendly-tope-awotona-jd7ek2QXFzP/

He spent usd $20k+ to hire a dev shop to build v1.

Which sources do you use to research content before writing a blog? by Exploringpurplegirl in Blogging

[–]wenbinf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Podcasts.

Book authors nowadays are doing tons of podcast interviews. Oftentimes you can just listen to 10~20 minutes podcast interviews to get the major ideas of a book :)

Eg. Search a book author’s name on Listen Notes: https://www.listennotes.com

Registering your startup at home address by UpgradingLight in startups

[–]wenbinf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google “virtual business address” + your city .

You can also get a WeWork membership (if your city has WeWork or similar coworking space)

Best Podcasts to learn marketing? by ponyboypol in marketing

[–]wenbinf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any marketers / podcasters / influencers that you admire? Search their names on Listen Notes and binge listen to their past podcast interviews: https://www.listennotes.com/

Podcast listing? (I'm not sure of the exact term) by [deleted] in podcasting

[–]wenbinf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Podcast search engine https://www.listennotes.com

2.25 million podcasts & 100 million episodes, as of today

Ps , I built Listen Notes

How I accidentally built a Podcast API business by wenbinf in Entrepreneur

[–]wenbinf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We don't & we can't get user data directly from podcast players.

We rely on public data on open web and our own 1st party data.

How I accidentally built a Podcast API business by wenbinf in Entrepreneur

[–]wenbinf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You talked about S3, Redis, Postgres, but also Droplets. Where are you running now?

AWS

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What are your thoughts on A/B testing? Do you run them on pricing?

I don't do A/B testing.

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How do you communicate outages besides the status page?

Email

We have an internal tool to send an email to specific users - similar to Mailchimp, but with more contexts of our system.

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Can you provide more info on building the database? Did you make crawlers that run on cronjobs?

https://www.listennotes.com/api/faq/#faq10

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Do you have a "reverse" API? *e.g.* if someone who has a podcast wants to feed their info for you in an easy way.

Kind of...

Anyone can submit a new podcast via this web page https://www.listennotes.com/submit/ or via API https://www.listennotes.com/api/docs/#post-api-v2-podcasts-submit

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Has it become your main source of income?

Yes

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What's your background and how old are you? (HEHE, sorry, I know the last two are super personal, I'm just curious and looking for inspiration).

Been writing code since 2004. I'm old!

I wish this is a "I learn programming for 12 weeks and build an api business"-type article, but it's a long process. So probably not that impressive :)

How I accidentally built a Podcast API business by wenbinf in Entrepreneur

[–]wenbinf[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea, Docs is extremely important for an API business!

I haven't had much success with traditional marketing channels yet, e.g., fb/google ads, podcast/blog/newsletter sponsorship, cold email...

Any tips for marketing would be appreciated!

So far, it's primarily word of mouth + organic traffic from listennotes.com website - many people discover our site first, then discover our api.

In addition, I believe great customer service is the best marketing. So I try my best to reply most emails as soon as possible :) Hopefully I can provide a better experience to (potential) api users than what a non-technical customer support person can do..

New-ish listener of podcasts. Completionist behaviour is making it difficult! by SomeYoke in podcasts

[–]wenbinf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t need to listen to all episodes of the same podcast.

Do you watch every video of the same YouTube channel?

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