Building in Public Articles
Curated PodGlue insights and playbooks focused on building in public.
Your Guest Appearances Deserve an Address
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 articleThe Dots Were Already There. We Just Connected Them.
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.
Read articleThe Deploy Button That Did Nothing
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.
Read articleThe Blank Box Problem
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.
Read article600 Episodes and Nobody Got Credit
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.
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.
Read articleNot Every Conversation Is an Episode
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 articleEighteen Settings, Buried Two Menus Deep
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.
Read articleI Watched My Product Break on a Sales Call
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.
Read articleWe Kept Shipping. The Page Stopped Saying So.
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.
Read articleThe Internet Replaced Travel Agents. AI Won't Replace the Ones Who Became the Voice.
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.
Read articleOur Homepage Was Too Clever. So We Rewrote All of It.
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.
Read articleIs It You, or Is It Us?
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.
Read articleI Built a Team of AI Agents. The Best One Said Stop.
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.
Read articleOne Link for Every Live Event We'll Ever Run
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.
Read articleThe Calendar That Went Blank on My Own Show
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 articleWhere Did Your Customer Feedback Actually Go?
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.
Read articleI'd Rather Pay You 30% Than Spend That on Ads
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.
Read articleHelp That Knows the Product
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.
Read articleI Wanted to Invite 50 People to a Call
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.
Read articleThe Deploy That Never Deployed
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.
Read articleThe Email System I Almost Built Twice
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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