Monthly update for March 2021

inca.fm v2. And Listen Notes incremental improvements.

Hi there!

This is the 42nd full month (3 YEARS and 6 months) that I worked on Listen Notes full-time. Hope you are doing well and staying safe!

Product updates

1, Launched an experimental project: inca.fm, like Clubhouse, but on a website :) Last year, inca.fm was launched as an iOS app. The new inca.fm was on Product Hunt.

2, Added an annual plan for Premium Membership.

3, Improvements on internal tools / automation for running Listen API Enterprise plan.

4, Auto-generated image for Listen Score (Example):

5, Revamp ListenAPI Demo GitHub repo.

6, Better mechanism to deal with bad words & swear words in typeahead search, similar to what Google did a decade ago :)

7, Upgraded some servers to beefy EC2 instances, thanks to web/api traffics increase.

8, Better mechanism to protect our API from being DDoS-ed.

9, Added self-service podcaster interview! And redesigned podcaster interviews page:

10, Revamp podcast manage page (especially for the left navigation part):

11, Revamp Listen Datasets pages (especially for the left navigation part);

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Stay safe!