Monthly update for November 2019
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November 2019
Hi there!
This is the 26th full month that I worked on Listen Notes full-time. Happy holidays!
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Product updates
1. Launched Listen Notes for Chrome - the official Chrome extension of Listen Notes!
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2. Added more stats to Podcast stats. Podcasts are like blogs. Every day, some new podcasts (new blogs) are born and some just die...
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3. Be able to embed a clip. Example.
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And this is how it looks like on the desktop web Twitter:
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4. Fixed some overdue bugs (~2-year old!) related to the audio player on the website.
5. More internal tools to fight spammers / crawlers. I guess having tons of spammers is a positive signal that Listen Notes is doing very well? Anyways, it's fun to implement a few mechanisms to make our website less vulnerable to various attacks.
Company updates
It was 2-year anniversary of Listen Notes, Inc. this October (~1.5 month ago). It's been a great journey so far.
Nowadays I spend 10%~20% of my time (maybe less) writing code, and I have to play the role of "business" guy for the rest of my time, doing things that typically engineers don't consider them as "work", e.g., replying emails (30%~40% of my time), talking to people, thinking... Engineering is deterministic, if you want to build something, you can eventually get it done. But business is nondeterministic :( Essentially, it's dealing with other human beings, and human beings are very complex & very unpredictable.
If your company wants to do some brand marketing, you can consider advertising on Listen Notes :) We have plenty of inventory for 2020.
Thanks for reading! Drop me a line and tell me what you think about Listen Notes -- just reply this email or hello@listennotes.com :)