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How serious of an opportunity/threat do you think AI is for your business?

https://twitter.com/PaulYacoubian/status/1565172224050561025

@nicolascava I feel like I take more “talking head / selfie” video, but way less “raw video.” I don’t record as much of life anymore.

@misterparker Love it. Looks amazing.

@nathanbarry @ConvertKit Wow! I have a bunch of follow-up questions (I’ll collect my thoughts and ask later).

Thanks for sharing all this. 👍

I think I record less video (and take more photos) on my iPhone partly because of the stylized Instagram photo trend that started in 2010.

Video is pretty raw; it takes a lot more editing. You can’t just add a pretty filter to make it look good.

Weird thing: when I had a mini dv camcorder I took video all the time (family, street video, events).

Now I have this amazing 4k video camera in my pocket (iPhone) and I rarely take video; it’s almost all photos.

I’ve been guilty of this too (blaming other generations).

Instead, we should put all that energy into action: what good things can we give future generations?

What awesome stuff will they inherit from us?

https://twitter.com/asmartbear/status/1568435658825269250?s=46&t=eUNDK0HQxcm1tfrw30Bq8w

@asmartbear Yes. I’ve done this blaming too!

But, instead, we should put all that energy into action: what good things can we give future generations? What awesome stuff will they inherit from us?

@KeliWestgate Whaaaat? In Coldstream?

RT @tylertringas: "how does this actually work?"
"what are we trying to do here?"
"does this do what we think it does?"
"could it be better…

@davewiner @conoro @SlackAPI YES!!! ✊

@ScotBertram @TransistorFM Feel free to DM me (or ping us on live chat) if you need anything.

@ankurnagpal Here's our stack of newer products:

Affiliate management: @getRewardful
Podcast hosting: @TransistorFM 😊
Calendar scheduling: @savvycal
Video messaging: @ZipMessage
Onboarding emails: @userlist
Screenshots: @XnapperHQ
Analytics: @usefathom
Forms: @heyreform

@ScotBertram There are quite a few radio stations that have migrated their podcasts to @TransistorFM.

(You can manage multiple podcasts from one account/plan, and invite team members to join each show)

Happy to extend your free trial to help you get started. 👍

https://transistor.fm/soundcloud-alternative/

@MultitudeShows Just joined now! This is great. 🙌

@iroughol I'll DM you. Happy to help keep your show up!

@cgenco Love it.

Think about what we treasure now, as a society: political freedom, healthcare, scientific discovery, access to nature, beautiful buildings, art, clean air, a livable climate, walkable cities.

These are the kinds of things we could gift to future generations.

@sairahul1 Absolutely! 🙌

I’m not saying we haven’t inherited some dire problems from previous generations. (We have!)

I’m just recognizing that there were people in the past who left us some enduringly positive things.

That makes me want to do the same for future generations.

@Lockedown_ I’m not saying we haven’t inherited some dire problems from previous generations. (We have!)

I’m just recognizing that there were people in the past who left us some enduringly positive things.

That makes me want to do the same for future generations.

There’s a tendency for young people to blame previous generations for the problems we have now.

A different perspective: think of all the good things we’ve inherited – beautiful architecture, art, parks, democracy.

That’s our opportunity: what could we gift future generations?

@mrjordanbentley @PodcastindexOrg Nice! 🙌

Watching @theleviallen’s new adventure film and it’s excellent.

If you want to escape to a different world for 20 mins, I highly recommend it.

https://youtu.be/2tw79VYC8fE

@cgenco congrats on getting married! 🎉

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@jayclouse NICE WORK! 🙌

@AlbanBrooke “My podcast is about my favorite thing in my head.”

Did some pairing today with @jasonlbeggs (needed help on upgrading Laravel so I could do some work on our @statamic site locally).

He introduced me to @gonedark's project, @laravelshift.

So good! It's the best way to upgrade your version of @laravelphp:
https://laravelshift.com/

If you're responding to this personally, please include a link to your portfolio (or, at the very least, a cool Shopify theme you've developed)

@joeworkman Lol. Yes! That's my number #1 karma generator on Stackoverflow. 😉

Here’s a fun game for parents to play:

“What objects have the kids stuck to my ceiling?”

Just looked up from the couch and can see:

- a sticky hand
- the letter “R”?

@CorbettBarr I’m writing a blog post on this right now!

Having way too much fun with this @TransistorFM case study on "optimizing your podcast for search"

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@p_millerd @ListenNotes @Podchaser @Google @spotifypodcasts @ApplePodcasts We'd love to, but the apps don't give us an easy way of identifying episode-specific links.

Best overall podcast search engines:
1. @ListenNotes
2. @Podchaser

Here's how I rank the 3 big listening apps:
1. @Google Podcasts
2. @spotifypodcasts
3. @ApplePodcasts

(They all have a lot of work to do)

Read my summary here:
https://transistor.fm/podcast-search/

Is podcast search broken?

If I wanted to find podcast episodes on a specific topic, how hard would that be?

Yesterday I tested podcast search on:

🍎 @ApplePodcasts
🟢 @spotifypodcasts
💠 @Google Podcasts
🗒️ @ListenNotes, @Podchaser, and more

Here are my results...

@noahwbragg @Oatmeal I just don’t see why need this whole cryptography layer on top.

(I also don’t like the centralization in marketplaces like OpenSea, etc)

Favorite definition so far 🤣

https://twitter.com/benjamincrozat/status/1567613221984505856?s=21&t=qBKkpeFuUUbZGD30r_jcgQ

Remember the open internet?

<sigh>

Those were better times.

@kaleighf Unless that company is @IronMaiden, in which case it's literally made up of rockstars. 😎

I asked my four teenagers this question a few weeks ago:

"What does RSS stand for?"

Their best guess was "Radically Simple Service" 😅

(It's actually "Really Simple Syndication")

https://twitter.com/JudoHacker/status/1567589841143037955?s=20&t=z70Mrdmh4MXnAwsQfuI19g

@AnTheMaker You can download the files here!

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1567587939273801730

I printed this one on @stickermule (@Printful on-demand would also work).

If you want to print your own, here are my files on Dropbox:

📂 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gni3g7ud8kf36f3/AACjGVaGRRhg_K7Tqj5vDQb8a?dl=0

I originally made this shirt to wear at @PodcastMovement #pm22, but it came too late, so I'm wearing it today. 😎

"RSS FOREVER"

✊ with my friends from @TransistorFM @buzzsprout @libsyn @blubrry @Podnews @PodcastindexOrg @rss @johnspurlock @Podverse @ApplePodcasts @pocketcasts

Today’s t-shirt brought to you by the FREE AND OPEN INTERNET.

@kornatzky We’d love to have you at @TransistorFM!

I made a nice guide for getting started with podcasting here:

https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/

@zkahn when are we going to see an “@ApplePodcasts Original” for Severance? 🙏 https://twitter.com/Fischer_Greg_/status/1567570238534815746

@stephenrobles @JoannaStern That crash detection stuff is really cool.

@webby2001 Hahaha. Not sure why I picked that phrase!

@DanielZarick Totally agree.

I just got back from a podcast conference and I’m more fired up than I’ve been in years.

Connecting with customers and partners in IRL was energizing.

@gaburieru4649 🙌

@mikevardy 🥰

@Clew_less @itsSoundCarrot @BryanBarletta I've wanted to write on this for a while, so I just tested all of the different apps and podcast search engines:

https://transistor.fm/podcast-search/

@c_southam WHOA. Deep cut!

@Maribel_QS You do amazing work and are a bright light for so many.

"Haters feel "good" when they make other people feel bad." – https://justinjackson.ca/haters

Sending you lots of ❤️ today!

Do you remember what brought you to my twitter account?

(Was it a specific topic, tweet, vibe?)

I'm in a bunch of worlds right now (podcasting, building SaaS, web dev, bootstrapping, creator economy, marketing, personal growth).

Trying to figure out what to focus on here. 🤞

@caneco & @flicknelson the @LaraconOnline website looks amazing! 🍒

@jayacunzo A lot of this has to do with distribution.

The Blue Yeti is available in many suburbs & smaller cities, because it’s often the only mic available at Best Buy, Staples, etc

It feels like a lot of the excitement has left the @rails community, partly because we're missing those "build a blog in a day" type tutorials.

Love what @cjav_dev is doing here: "learn to build a gumroad-like platform with Rails, @tailwindui, @stripe."

https://youtu.be/uuHtuR2FFS4

@imtyrelchambers @TransistorFM In our case, @jonbuda had already been working on the app during 2017.

We launched that page in Jan 2018 when we teamed up, and were almost ready to onboard early-access users.

@Mattylantz Thank you! 🙌

For those curious, here's what the @TransistorFM homepage looked like in 2018.

That page got us our first 78 customers! (Before we'd even launched)

@lukehebb @stripe It still works!

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1567171720204910594

A good determinant of “market pull” is putting up a simple page like this and seeing how many people respond.

(A fancy landing page isn’t going to magically create more demand)

Love the marketing simplicity of @stripe’s first homepage in 2011:

Are you a developer?
Need payment processing?
Get in touch. https://twitter.com/adamd/status/1567165800087175168

@adamd Whoa! Haha, love seeing this.

Are you a developer?
Need payment processing?
Get in touch.

@boramalper 👋 someone mentioned your Magnetico project here: #32728233" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32727470#32728233

I'm curious about your thoughts on "decentralized discoverability;" do you think the Magnetico model could be used in other areas? (Other search engines, content indexes, etc.)

@Clew_less @itsSoundCarrot @BryanBarletta Agreed.

@jmckinven Yes!

@petecodes Haha.

“When the water’s good, get out and enjoy it.”

@BryanBarletta “Finding listeners” is a creator issue.

I rarely hear listeners complain about discoverability.

Listeners get podcast recommendations the same way we get book recommendations: from friends, from reviews, other word of mouth… https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1423436556593995778

@cheerfulpaige A future iteration of something like this? Yes!

We won’t know what’s possible unless we keep trying to iterate along these lines.

(Initial versions of centralized platforms, like Twitter, were also not user-friendly in their first iterations).

@cheerfulpaige An alternative could be a decentralized protocol/database.

We’ve come close to “decentralized discovery” in the past, especially with Gnutella’s distributed search. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1566827075860066305

Good day for a paddle

@tim_abell YES! 💯

The @Oatmeal describes it perfectly:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people

@tannerhelps This is very early thinking (is it ok to tweet if you don’t have everything figured out? 😅).

With p2p torrent networks, the discovery happened in a variety of clients. You would connect to a handful of distributed indexes, which would surface the best torrents.

Early-stage startup founders paying their AWS bill with free credits.

@taragentile 100% this.

We *do* get some benefit, but it's not clear if it's commensurate.

(Especially since many of us initially seeded these social graphs by uploading our personal contacts! 😱)

Actually seeing some good discussion on this HN thread. (Thanks @dceddia!)

"Ask HN: What are some examples of “decentralized discoverability?”"

https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

@iamtomelliot It was decentralized in the sense that anybody could mirror an existing index (and if it was good, people would hear about it).

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1566827075860066305

@dceddia I must be the exception. 🤣

The idea of mirroring an index (Pirate Bay), or having a distributed database (DNS), is fascinating.

These are the examples I can think of:

DNS
UseNet
FidoNet
PirateBay
Mastadon

Any others?

What could "decentralized discoverability" look like for content?

@johnspurlock @tomrossi7 @lcjury @PodcastindexOrg YES! 🙌

@nicksdot Aside from word of mouth, creators on the internet have always relied on centralized indexes (Web Crawler, Lycos, Altavista, Yahoo, Google) and social platforms (UseNet, forums, MySpace, Facebook).

@tomrossi7 @lcjury @PodcastindexOrg Yes!

Having an open database of podcasts (Podcast Index) is part way there.

I'm also thinking about ranking signal (for example, in torrents it seeds/peers).

I had a conversation with @johnspurlock at PM about an open/public podcast prefix/tracker.

@jonrojas The idea of mirroring an index, or having a distributed database (DNS), is really fascinating to me.

Trying to think of other examples:

DNS
FidoNet
UseNet
Mastadon

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1566827075860066305

The problem with web3 is that the projects still rely on centralized indexes/distribution (OpenSea, Rarible, etc) for discoverability.

The web3 world still hasn't figured out how to decentralize discoverability.

https://twitter.com/rchoffardet/status/1566830819272003591

@lcjury The difference is the index is public and can be mirrored.

Sites like 1337x were born out of previously popular indexes (Kickass Torrents, h33t).

It's dissimilar to when a GitHub fork becomes more popular than the original project.

http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/tobi/delayed_job

@what_the_func @lenstubexyz @Livepeer I need to check those out.

One example of "non-centralized content distribution" was torrents.

The Pirate Bay was a centralized index, but it was easy to mirror (duplicate) the index on your own server.

Hundreds of these proxy sites maintain a copy of the Pirate Bay index.

@cheerfulpaige You're telling me "this is just the way it is, and it can't be changed."

This tweet thread is more explorative: "what if there was an open, distributed way to do this?"

I'm looking at the current state of affairs and asking: "what if it could be different?"

So much of the internet's innovation was based on open protocols (HTTP, SMTP, RSS, TCP/IP), but the one thing that's never been cracked is "non-centralized distribution."

We haven't figured out how to do content discovery in an open, distributed way.

https://twitter.com/rajasa/status/1566813468745166848

There are a bunch of parts that feel "off" to me.

One is the power differential.

We're not talking about advertising in local newspapers anymore. These are global megacorps with sophisticated algorithms and deep pockets; accountable only to shareholders.
https://twitter.com/BowTiedDolphin/status/1566814918703304717

The creator/platform relationship is weird:

- We give them free content
- We drive people to the platform ("Watch me on YouTube," "Check out my Soundcloud")
- Our content and reach are ultimately governed by algorithms designed to benefit the platform

@cheerfulpaige This part is weird:

- We give them free content and seed their networks with our personal contacts
- We drive people to the platforms ("Watch me on YouTube," "Check out my Soundcloud")
- Our content and reach are ultimately governed by algorithms designed to benefit the platform

Creators have to play this weird game, where they chase algorithms developed by big corp interests.

"Twitter threads attract a lot of attention; let's make those!"

It's mutually beneficial for a time (the creator gets followers) but ultimately the benefit goes to the platform.

It makes sense for creators to be on platforms where there are lots of people.

But it still feels weird to me that we rely on these megacorps for distribution.

Time after time, we've been lured with the promise of distribution, only to have them shut down organic reach.

Weirdly, indie creators have always relied on doing arbitrage on big platforms: attracting attention on Twitter, Instagram, FB, Google, YouTube, Hacker News, Medium, etc...

We're "independent," but to attract an audience we need to capture attention on big platforms.