Description

We broke Metacast just before launching it in open beta. Ouch.

On this episode, we talk about the launch, how it went, and what we’ve learned.

Get Metacast at ⁠⁠metacast.app⁠⁠.

Join the ⁠r/metacastapp⁠ subreddit.

Chapters

• 02:13 - Get The Pragmatic Podcaster book for free
• 03:33 - We broke Metacast just before launch
• 08:39 - How we fixed the problem
• 14:04 - The other way we broke the app
• 16:27 - Publishing to Apple and Google
• 20:04 - Marketing for open beta
• 24:10 - Business metrics
• 30:38 - This is just the beginning
• 34:20 - Podcast and book recommendations

Links

Metacast

• Get Metacast for iOS and Android
• r/metacastapp subreddit
• The Pragmatic Podcaster book by Ilya

Open beta launch content and mentions

• Reddit post
• LinkedIn post
• Pod News mention

Tools

• Tramline - CI/CD for mobile apps

Podcasts

• Metacast Ep. 40 - Automating mobile app releases with Tramline founders
• Builders Gonna Build
• Podcast Marketing Trends Explained
• We Tried the Apple Vision Pro + Can Congress Protect Kids Online? + Cruise’s Crash on the Hard Fork podcast
• The Vision Pro Reviews Are Here on the Techmeme Ride Home podcast
• Zuckerberg on the Vision Pro vs. Quest (video)
• How the Acquired podcast grew, and why they switched to Transistor on the Build Your SaaS podcast
• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on the Acquired podcast
• Charlie Munger on the Acquired podcast

Books

• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Download the Metacast podcast app for free

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/metacast/id6462012536
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player

Get in touch

• Contact us: hello@metacastpodcast.com
• Ilya's LinkedIn
• Arnab's LinkedIn