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ben_fishbeinon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

A way to follow creators and not specific podcasts

Yep, the basic flow is a query of the taddy api https://taddy.org/developers/podcast-api

Then I host everything on a firebase service where I store all data and serve it up quickly.

There are some small problems with de-duping when a podcast gets uploaded on multiple feeds, but I haven't found a great way to handle that besides comparing the titles/descriptions

ben_fishbeinon GuestCast

Yea, I was thinking of adding that feature, would be very useful to not have to plug the feed into a app to see it

Added to the list!

ben_fishbeinon GuestCast

I built a way to track people when they guest appear on podcasts

You can add the RSS feed to any podcast app you want and it will automatically update whenever they appear on a new one