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The Clip That Took an Hour to Make Nothing
The Clip That Took an Hour to Make Nothing
Vertical video with captions is live in PodGlue. It nearly shipped in a state where every clip would have burned an hour of server time and then failed.
Read articleI Was Shipping Things Nobody Knew About
I Was Shipping Things Nobody Knew About
We wrote release notes every week. They lived on a page nobody had a reason to visit. So the work happened, and the people it was for never found out.
Read articleI Was Reading My Own Calendar in Someone Else's Timezone
I Was Reading My Own Calendar in Someone Else's Timezone
My booking list said 3:00. It meant 3:00 in Tokyo. Nothing on the screen told me that.
Read articleNobody Talks About the Waiting
Nobody Talks About the Waiting
There's a new puzzle game inside the PodGlue iOS app. It exists because of the ninety seconds you spend staring at a progress bar.
Read articleI Forgot I Had a Recording on Tuesday
I Forgot I Had a Recording on Tuesday
Nobody was late. Nothing was double-booked. I just hadn't looked at my own week, and I'd stopped trusting myself to remember.
Read articleMy Booking Page Made People Scroll To Book
My Booking Page Made People Scroll To Book
The calendar looked fine on my monitor. On a laptop, the button that actually books the interview was below the fold the whole time.
Read articleMy Calendar Invite Finally Tells Me Who I'm Talking To
My Calendar Invite Finally Tells Me Who I'm Talking To
Ten minutes before a recording, the calendar event said a name and an email. Everything the guest had actually told me was somewhere else.
Read articleI Gave PodGlue My Own Run of Show
I Gave PodGlue My Own Run of Show
PodGlue was generating a run of show, a list of questions, and an intro script. Three separate documents. I was doing the work of stitching them together in my head while recording.
Read articleI Kept Opening the Calendar and Learning Nothing
I Kept Opening the Calendar and Learning Nothing
Ten minutes before a recording I'd click the event and get a name, an email, and a link. Everything the guest had actually told me was somewhere else.
Read articleMy Booking Page Was Offering This Morning
My Booking Page Was Offering This Morning
At three in the afternoon, my calendar was still showing nine, ten and eleven as open. Not tomorrow's nine. Today's.
Read articleBlocking an Hour Was Costing Me the Day
Blocking an Hour Was Costing Me the Day
I blocked 2pm to 3pm for an appointment. My booking page quietly took the whole day off. And a booking I'd cancelled was still holding its slot hostage.
Read articleMy Booking Page Said Come Back in October
My Booking Page Said Come Back in October
My Thursdays were wide open. My booking page told every guest the soonest I could talk was two months out. It was wrong in both directions at once, and no error was ever logged.
Read articleA Discovery Call Is Not an Interview
A Discovery Call Is Not an Interview
My booking page treated a 15-minute chat and a 90-minute recording as the same thing. Offering one meant offering both, and I'd been quietly working around it for months.
Read articleThe Money Was Already in the Room
The Money Was Already in the Room
Every guide to making money podcasting starts with the same advice: get more downloads. I built a tool that tells most people the opposite, and it will refuse to point you at sponsorship if your numbers aren't there yet.
Read articleThe Top of My Screen Was Doing Nothing for Me
The Top of My Screen Was Doing Nothing for Me
I opened PodGlue and counted five things in the top corner competing for my attention. None of them were the work. So I cleaned it up.
Read articleThe Diagrams Were There the Whole Time
The Diagrams Were There the Whole Time
Four diagrams on our homepage quietly stopped showing up. The images were fine. The server refused to serve them. Here's how a one-line allowlist miss hid our best explainers, and how we made sure it can't happen again.
Read articleThe Guest Can Finally See Where Things Stand
The Guest Can Finally See Where Things Stand
One of my favorite guests spent nine months politely asking when his episode would go live. He deserved a page, not a thread. Now every guest gets one.
Read articleThe Guest Journey Now Runs Itself
The Guest Journey Now Runs Itself
A guest books a time, gets a real confirmation, gets reminded before the recording, and can even get the questions in advance. Four gaps in that journey closed in one day of parallel building.
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