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Learn how we build Listen Notes, the best podcast search engine and API.

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34 from 20 Sep 2017 to 7 Mar 2026
Posting
now and then (2 in the last year)
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company blog
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https://feeds.listennotes.com/blog/rss/

2026 1

  1. A note to indie hackers: Professionalism is not optional

2025 3

  1. Sharding Web Traffic with Subdomains to Better Leverage Cloudflare CDN and WAF
  2. Tech & Non-Tech Stacks to Run Listen Notes (2025)
  3. Use BetterStack to Replace PagerDuty, Datadog, and Atlassian Statuspage—and Cut Costs by 90%

2024 2

  1. Notebook LM: A threat to the Podcasting World
  2. Why Podcasts Are My New Wikipedia —the Perfect Informal Learning Resource

2023 1

  1. How to build a ChatGPT plugin: A case study using PodcastAPI.com and serverless Cloudflare Pages for AI-powered podcast discovery

2022 3

  1. A practical way to upgrade Postgres major versions with near-zero downtime
  2. How do people use Listen Notes?
  3. Instead of Monthly Billing, a Daily Alternative for SaaS

2021 2

  1. How I accidentally built a Podcast API business
  2. How to evaluate a 3rd party RESTful API?

2020 2

  1. What is Listen Notes? Why does Listen Notes need to make money?
  2. Numbers of tech companies when they were small

2019 7

  1. Listen Notes for Chrome
  2. Introducing Llamacorn!!!
  3. Some API improvements
  4. How to submit a new podcast to Listen Notes database
  5. Listen API v2: simple pricing & same endpoints
  6. Good enough engineering to start an Internet company
  7. Listen Explorer: Get similar podcasts

2018 7

  1. Listen Real-Time: Like Google Analytics Real-Time, but for podcast episodes
  2. Just Listen™: A simple podcast app for the 99%
  3. Why a standalone podcast search engine website?
  4. Why Listen Notes doesn’t allow users to review podcasts?
  5. Postmortem on Apr 22, 2018 outage
  6. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
  7. My Y Combinator interview experience (W18)

2017 6

  1. Listen Later ™ is like Instapaper or Pocket, but for podcasts!
  2. Migrating Listen Notes servers to AWS
  3. Podcast in 2017 is just like Web in 1997
  4. How to use Listen Notes from Chrome address bar?
  5. Listen Notes 2.0: laying the foundation of future fast iteration
  6. What’s next for Listen Notes?