Building in Public Articles
Curated PodGlue insights and playbooks focused on building in public.
Your Guests Don't Know You Switched Schedulers
Your Guests Don't Know You Switched Schedulers
When you move your booking over to PodGlue, the guests already on your calendar get a confirmation from a name they don't recognize, for a meeting they already booked. Now that email explains itself.
Read articleI Interviewed Hundreds of People and Never Saw Them on a Map
I Interviewed Hundreds of People and Never Saw Them on a Map
After years of podcasting, my guests lived as a long list of names. PodGlue now puts them where they actually are, on a map, so the network I built is finally something I can see.
Read articleFinding a Guest Shouldn't Mean Buying a Cold List
Finding a Guest Shouldn't Mean Buying a Cold List
Most guest-finding tools sell you scraped contacts so you can cold-pitch strangers. We have both the hosts and the guests on PodGlue already, so we just let them find each other.
Read articleI Was Hiding on My Own Homepage
I Was Hiding on My Own Homepage
On a call, my mentor Pat Flynn reviewed the PodGlue homepage, and after a pile of notes he said the line that stuck: we wanna see faces, we wanna see real people. He was right, and it is the same thing most podcasters do to themselves with their own show.
Read articleYou Could Add an Expertise Tag. You Couldn't Take One Off.
You Could Add an Expertise Tag. You Couldn't Take One Off.
The guest card let you tag what someone is known for, but once a tag was on there, it was stuck. A small thing that quietly annoyed people. Now it comes back off.
Read articleYour Name Should Be the Same in Every Room
Your Name Should Be the Same in Every Room
You had one name on your public guest page and a different one in the community. Same person, two labels. We fixed that, and cleaned up the front door while we were at it.
Read articleYou Already Taught the Workshop. You Just Did It One Interview at a Time.
You Already Taught the Workshop. You Just Did It One Interview at a Time.
Every podcast interview you give leaves your best teaching scattered across other people's feeds. We built a way for guests to harvest it back.
Read articleIntegration Pages That Tell You What They Can't Do
Integration Pages That Tell You What They Can't Do
Most 'integrations' pages are a wall of logos that promise everything and explain nothing. We built ours to say what each tool actually does, and what it doesn't.
Read articleThe Link That Reloaded the Whole Page
The Link That Reloaded the Whole Page
Clicking a story in the community sometimes reloaded the entire site instead of just opening the thread. It still got you there, but it felt heavy. Now it's instant.
Read articleThe Newsletter That Writes Itself When You Hit Publish
The Newsletter That Writes Itself When You Hit Publish
Every podcaster on Kit knows the chore: an episode goes live, and the newsletter you meant to send never gets written. PodGlue now writes the draft for you.
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The Blank Box Problem
Every press release needs an 'about the show' paragraph. We added a field for it and then watched everyone leave it empty. So we taught PodGlue to write the first draft.
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The Dots Were Already There. We Just Connected Them.
A guest page that doesn't link to the episodes. An episode page that doesn't link to the guest. A podcast page that never shows who came on. The information existed. Nobody was surfacing it. We fixed that.
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The Deploy Button That Did Nothing
For two months, every backend improvement we shipped quietly went nowhere. The code was written, reviewed, and merged. It just never reached you. Here's how we found out, and what we changed so it can't happen again.
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Your Guest Appearances Deserve an Address
You've been on twelve podcasts. Maybe thirty. Where do they live? A LinkedIn post that scrolled away. A link in a bio somewhere. We just gave every guest a single address for all of it: podglue.com/@you.
Read articleWe Were Charging You to Think
We Were Charging You to Think
We put a monthly limit on press releases, and accidentally put it on the wrong thing. The limit was on writing the draft, not on sending it anywhere. So we moved it.
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600 Episodes and Nobody Got Credit
I imported my entire back catalog into PodGlue and discovered something embarrassing: hundreds of episodes with guest names right there in the title, and not one of them linked to an actual guest. Here's what we fixed.
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Eighteen Settings, Buried Two Menus Deep
PodGlue's settings page grew one feature at a time until fifteen screens were hiding behind a single tab. I built it, and I still clicked the wrong menu. So we flattened the whole thing and put a search box on top.
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Not Every Conversation Is an Episode
Some of my best material was never meant for the podcast feed. Discovery calls, research interviews, the conversations I had on the side. I wanted to publish a few of those to my own site without them ever showing up on Apple or Spotify. Now I can.
Read articleI Made the Images, Then I Switched Tabs and They Were Gone
I Made the Images, Then I Switched Tabs and They Were Gone
PodGlue's Social Studio made a full set of post-ready images for an episode. Then I clicked another tab to check a caption, came back, and the whole set was gone. Here is why that happened and how we fixed it.
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I Watched My Product Break on a Sales Call
Four demos in one day. The product sold itself, and then the studio wouldn't connect, and a login button did nothing. Here's what the rough edges taught me that the polished parts couldn't.
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The Internet Replaced Travel Agents. AI Won't Replace the Ones Who Became the Voice.
We're building a dedicated entry point for independent insurance agents introduced by APPLICA Innovations. Here's the thinking behind it, and why a weekly conversation does more for an agency right now than any ad spend.
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We Kept Shipping. The Page Stopped Saying So.
Our community Release Notes sat on one version for weeks while we shipped almost every day. The work was happening. The record wasn't. Here's why it froze, and how it fixes itself now.
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Our Homepage Was Too Clever. So We Rewrote All of It.
We described PodGlue like a pitch deck instead of a tool. A busy podcaster does not want a philosophy. They want their Saturday back. So we rewrote the whole homepage to say what it actually does.
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Is It You, or Is It Us?
When something feels off with your show, you don't want an apology. You want one honest answer: is it me, or is it them? PodGlue now has a page for exactly that.
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I Built a Team of AI Agents. The Best One Said Stop.
I wired up four AI agents to ship a feature while I slept. The first real job they ran, the most valuable thing any of them did was refuse to write code.
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One Link for Every Live Event We'll Ever Run
Every launch, every webinar, every office hours session used to mean a new landing page. Now it's one URL that knows what state it's in.
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The Calendar That Went Blank on My Own Show
My scheduled posts were sitting right there in the database. The calendar showed me nothing. The reason it broke was the one thing I'm proudest of: a very long back catalog.
Read articleYour Appearance Was Already Waiting for You
Your Appearance Was Already Waiting for You
You go on a podcast, the episode airs, and then... nothing you can point to. We flipped that: the episode page itself now hands the guest a ready-made page with that appearance already on it.
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Where Did Your Customer Feedback Actually Go?
I clicked Submit on my own product's Feedback button and watched the issue land in the wrong place. Six weeks of customer feedback had been quietly going to a team that wasn't watching.
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I'd Rather Pay You 30% Than Spend That on Ads
Most podcast tools either don't have an affiliate program or pay you 10% once. PodGlue pays 30% recurring on every Amplify subscriber you refer, for as long as they stay. There's a reason for that.
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Help That Knows the Product
My own Help button was confidently lying to me. The fix wasn't a smarter AI. It was handing the AI the docs that were sitting on the shelf behind it.
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I Wanted to Invite 50 People to a Call
What started as a weekly beta call invite turned into rebuilding how PodGlue tracks people. The smallest tasks reveal the most about what you actually need.
Read articleFrom 642 Megabytes to Nine
From 642 Megabytes to Nine
Our admin app deploy was uploading 642MB. The container only needed 9MB. The fix was one config file, and a question I'd been avoiding.
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The Deploy That Never Deployed
Our CI had been silently rejecting every edge function deploy for months. I only noticed because something I shipped didn't appear.
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The Email System I Almost Built Twice
I was three commits into a custom email broadcast tool when I remembered I was already paying for one that did it better. The lesson wasn't about email.
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