Our first $500 in revenue
Celebrating a milestone
In this update
We’ve made our first $500, here’s to the next $500!
New features in Metacast v1.12
New podcast episode
💰 We made our first $500!
When we first got started, we had our doubts about the viability of Metacast as a business. Then, when you build on something for a year and don’t see any monetary results (because you can’t charge users in beta), more doubt starts to creep in.
In October, we hit $500 in cumulative revenue.
It may not feel like a lot when you're used to getting thousands of dollars in your bank account from an employer.
But it means a world to a new founder.
It's a sign of validation from early users. Thank you all who trusted us with your time and wallets!
We can now pay our infrastructure bills from revenue.
We're more motivated than ever.
Now, the grind has just begun....
On to the next milestone - $1,000!
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📱 New features in Metacast
Sleep timer
When we built the first version of our podcast app, we decided not to add a sleep timer.
Who needs a sleep timer anyway? It seemed like an obscure use case to fall asleep while listening to a podcast. Right?
It turned out that people do fall asleep while listening to Rogan, but there was one more, totally unexpected use case that was outside of our mental model.
In the recent years, there has been a proliferation of podcasts that play white noise, sounds of nature, and boring stories that help people fall asleep.
Instead of paying for a white noise app or getting interrupted by ads on YouTube, someone uploaded white noise audio files to podcast hosting and let people use any podcast app as a white noise app.
For people who listen to white noise to get asleep, the sleep timer is literally the sleep timer.
After getting enough requests, we've added a sleep timer to Metacast.
Coming up!
We’re working on some exciting improvements to the app like timestamps that you can click and an inbox for episodes from podcasts that you follow.
Stay tuned!
Get Metacast on the Apple App Store or Google Play.
🎙️ New podcast episode
On the latest episode (#64), Arnab and I discuss our recent chat with a VC-backed founder who is on the verge of closing shop. The conversation made us reflect on our bootstrapping journey and the pros and cons of taking outside money vs. bootstrapping.
Follow Metacast: Behind the Scenes on whichever Metacast version you use to listen to podcasts 🙄 or any other podcast app and YouTube. Links are here.
🌯 That’s a wrap
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