Hi there!

This is the 38th full month (3 YEARS and 2 months) that I worked on Listen Notes full-time. Hope you are doing well and staying safe!

Product updates

1, Some followup development with Listen Score, a metric that shows the estimated popularity of a podcast compared to all other rss-based public podcasts in the world on a scale from 0 to 100. For example, added Listen Score to API response data.

2, Some infra improvements, e.g., upgrade a few EC2 instances, thanks to traffic growth. First time to sell old reserved instances on AWS marketplace :)

3, New pricing for Premium Membership. btw, ProfitWell has some great resources on pricing.

4, Added a data fields page: https://www.listennotes.com/datasets/fields/

5, A bunch of improvements on API pages, e.g., API Home, Docs, Pricing…

6, Changed default sort order of episodes on a podcast page to “Oldest to Newest” for “serial”-type podcast.

7, New landing page for Listen Later playlists: https://www.listennotes.com/listen/

Product updates

Posted Listen API to Hacker News and randomly got on the front page :)

Marketing is so nondeterministic!

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This is the 117th time that I try to launch Listen Notes API :)

November 18th 2020

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Listen Notes @ListenNotes

2020 is a great year for podcasts :) listennotes.com/podcast-stats/ In 2005, iTunes launched a podcast directory with 8000 podcasts. In 1994, Yahoo Directory had 2000 websites. In Nov. 2020, Listen Notes indexes 88 million episodes. In Dec. 1998, Google indexed 60 million web pages.

November 30th 2020

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Stay safe!