Ilya Bezdelev

Our podcast app Metacast has just crossed $1,000 in total revenue! We're bootstrapped. Revenue, savings and spouse's income is how we pay the bills. If you're a paying customer, huge thank you! If you haven't tried the app yet, try it now at metacast.app

1/ When looking for a co-founder, my personal preference is to only work with someone I've worked with before. Otherwise, you don't know what you're getting into. 🧵

5/ I co-founded metacast.app with @arnab.metacast.app who I'd known for 8 years and worked with directly for 5.

1/ When looking for a co-founder, my personal preference is to only work with someone I've worked with before. Otherwise, you don't know what you're getting into. 🧵

3/ They must have your back at all times.

1/ When looking for a co-founder, my personal preference is to only work with someone I've worked with before. Otherwise, you don't know what you're getting into. 🧵

We've just made podcast sharing a tad cooler. When you share a podcast on social media, the snippet is short and sweet. We only display what is necessary - the cover, the title and the sexy blur behind the image.

metacast.app/podcasts/epi...

We've just made podcast sharing a tad cooler. When you share a podcast on social media, the snippet is short and sweet. We only display what is necessary - the cover, the title and the sexy blur behind the image.

Here's what it looks like: metacast.app/podcasts/036...

We've just made podcast sharing a tad cooler. When you share a podcast on social media, the snippet is short and sweet. We only display what is necessary - the cover, the title and the sexy blur behind the image.

We've removed "Listen on Metacast" because it was making the snippet too busy and potentially deterring from people from clicking the link.

1/ Always set budgets for metered resources on your infrastructure! Yesterday, we discovered that we hit our $25 spend limit on @vercel.com. If we weren't careful, it could've spiraled into $7,000. Here's what happened. 🧵

8/ At that point, we’d either have to pay up or try negotiating with Vercel to reduce or forgive the bill. Either option sucks.

1/ Always set budgets for metered resources on your infrastructure! Yesterday, we discovered that we hit our $25 spend limit on @vercel.com. If we weren't careful, it could've spiraled into $7,000. Here's what happened. 🧵

6/ Worst part? It's not even real users generating this cost. It's mostly web crawlers that go deep into the site and access the long-tail pages.

1/ Always set budgets for metered resources on your infrastructure! Yesterday, we discovered that we hit our $25 spend limit on @vercel.com. If we weren't careful, it could've spiraled into $7,000. Here's what happened. 🧵

4/ This said, Vercel charges $5 for every 1,000 images optimized. Optimizing 1.4M images from third-party sources would've cost us $7K. As our directory grows, so does the bill.

1/ Always set budgets for metered resources on your infrastructure! Yesterday, we discovered that we hit our $25 spend limit on @vercel.com. If we weren't careful, it could've spiraled into $7,000. Here's what happened. 🧵

2/ We added a directory of podcast episodes on our website metacast.app. Right now, it includes ~7K podcasts and 1.4M episodes. Each page has an image served from a third-party host.

I saw a pickup truck by Mercedes (a collab with Nissan) and it got me wondering what would a pickup truck from BMW or Lamborghini look like… see 🧵

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I saw a pickup truck by Mercedes (a collab with Nissan) and it got me wondering what would a pickup truck from BMW or Lamborghini look like… see 🧵

I've just written 5 LinkedIn posts with ChatGPT by - Giving it a transcript of our latest podcast episode - Asking it to come up with topics from the podcast that could be interesting to startuppers - Asking it to compose a post using my voice and tone from the podcast. Works like a charm after...