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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/02/2025

Our podcast app Metacast has just crossed $1,000 in total revenue! We're bootstrapped. Revenue, savings and spouse's income is how we pay the bills. If you're a paying customer, huge thank you! If you haven't tried the app yet, try it now at metacast.app

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 06/02/2025

We've just made podcast sharing a tad cooler. When you share a podcast on social media, the snippet is short and sweet. We only display what is necessary - the cover, the title and the sexy blur behind the image.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 31/01/2025

Every bootstrapped founder should read the email we received today. It made my day. I get goosebumps every time I'm re-reading it. Share this with someone who needs to hear a word of encouragement. The EOY review post they referenced: metacast.app/blog/company...

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 15/01/2025

Nerds will appreciate this

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 23/12/2024

ChatGPT Plus is the next best thing after psychedelics.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 23/12/2024

I saw a pickup truck by Mercedes (a collab with Nissan) and it got me wondering what would a pickup truck from BMW or Lamborghini look like… see 🧵

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 02/12/2024

Falling in Reverse and Ronnie Radke are so good! Only learned about them last year when they opened for Avenged Sevenfold in Palm Beach. Immediately became a fan when they sang “Voices in my head.” It’s like Limp Bizkit, but for the 2020s. open.spotify.com/track/1jVXXu...

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 02/12/2024

Sir David Brailsford, a legendary British cycling coach on “podiums vs. pedals” aka “achievement vs process.” Source: metacast.app/podcasts/epi...

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 30/11/2024

How cool is this? X-Ray on Kindle uses the context to display highly relevant information! It could’ve picked a generic use for the word “imperative” but it picked the use as it relates to programming, because I’m (re)reading The Pragmatic Programmer.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 29/11/2024

TIL: some handy settings for VSCode.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 28/11/2024

No matter how I try, I can only read this as COBOL 🙈

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 27/11/2024

#buildinpublic 11/27 Today's news - a monster pull request. All in a day's work! @arnab.metacast.app good luck reviewing! If you have questions, I'm AFK.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 26/11/2024

It seems like a spam technique where the original post mentions a bunch of people (you and me among many others probably), then it gets removed but we’re still receiving “replies”. I’ve seen this in Instagram comments before.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 26/11/2024

I’m guilty of pushing for changes like you’ve described too. We even have one of those in Metacast, which I eventually had to create a toggle for because some users (including me eventually!) were confused…

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 26/11/2024

Oh this one is definitely a big one! In beta now.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 26/11/2024

#buildinpublic 11/26 I am guilty of assuming features are easy to build if I _feel like_ they're easy to build. Sometimes I even go so far as to tell @arnab.metacast.app that "Let's do it! It should be easy, right? Right?" Never again! 🧵

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 26/11/2024

I followed Mark Cuban and he immediately followed me back.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 26/11/2024

Steve Jobs famously said that you can't cut your way to growth. Clearly, he wasn't a programmer. > 11 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 986 deletions(-) We've just ripped out an error-prone and expensive workflow from Metacast. The app is now better, faster and cheaper to run!

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 26/11/2024

This is not a huge amount by any means, but any incoming revenue is a signal that we're doing something people want and are ready to pay for! On the flip side, this covers 2 months of @vercel.com subscription for our website! #buildinpublic

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 25/11/2024

I don’t mean to intrude into your personal space but what you do is different from empathy that allows you to understand emotions but stay neutral. What you’re describing seems to be a type of a mood dependency dynamic that might be worth exploring with a therapist.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 25/11/2024

I swear there’s a song by System of A Down with “blue sky” lyrics in it! It’s stuck in my head. ChatGPT to the rescue! P.S. Never ever copy-paste LLMs hallucinations to production code if you don’t understand them…

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 25/11/2024

#buildinpublic 11/25 Ep. 65 of Metacast: Behind the Scenes podcast recorded ✅ We’ve been trying to keep them to 30 minutes but podcasts, like meetings, like projects, follow the Parkinson’s law. Unless there’s a hard stop, we go on forever. Those will be fun to listen to 10 years from now ❤️

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 25/11/2024

Re:AWS — you may be right. AWS Chatbot was an obvious exception because @arnab.metacast.app and I built it 😆

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 25/11/2024

I like the ability to verify your affiliation with the thing you're doing. I've just changed my handle to a subdomain of metacast.app. Here's a Reddit post that explains how to set up multiple users on the same domain: www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

Me, coding a search engine in PHP while also repairing the office. Why do all good things necessarily involve alcohol??

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

The genesis of the conversation 👇🏻

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

Bluesky gave me another reason to misunderstand my CTO 🤦🏻‍♂️ @or9ob.bsky.social

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

An account was following and unfollowing me repeatedly. It was “one of those” accounts that barely has any followers but follows 80k accounts. It’s nice of #bluesky to launch with a “block” function right out of the gate!

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

Just cancelled my X premium subscription. I wanted to use X for a #buildinpublic diary, but I always felt like being drowned by uhm.. political discourse. FWIW, I like X as a source of information (mostly reading Elon for entertainment), but it’s a terrible place to build communities.

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

The source of my excitement 👇🏻

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

2024 social networks feeds be like - LinkedIn = influencer lunatics - Instagram = entertainment - X = political “debates” - Facebook = selling stuff to neighbors - Telegram = a ghost town (in the US) - #Bluesky = A New Hope

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

I tend to plan my work in 2-day chunks using the standup notes I send to the team in Slack. I have a Google doc where I keep an intermediate version of the upcoming standup message. Each work item is linked to an issue or PR in GitHub (that are displayed as a Kanban board in a GH project).

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

Watto from Star Wars (the owner of young Anakin on Tatooine)

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Ilya Bezdelev @ilya.metacast.app · 24/11/2024

Does your podcast app have clickable timestamps? I’m using this in beta of Metacast now and it rocks. Coming to prod next week!

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