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When a guest doesn't show up, the call should stay on the calendar
When a guest doesn't show up, the call should stay on the calendar
Cancelling a booking because the guest never joined wiped the call from both calendars. Now you can mark a no-show, keep the record, and send them an easy way to rebook.
Read articleWhat Kind of Podcast Host Are You, Really?
What Kind of Podcast Host Are You, Really?
Twelve questions from the PRM book score how well your guest relationships outlast the episode, and name your host type.
Read articlePodGlue now notices when nobody shows up
PodGlue now notices when nobody shows up
After a booked call, PodGlue asks Zoom who joined. If it was only you, the booking is marked a no-show and your guest gets an easy way to rebook. And rescheduling now actually moves your calendar.
Read articleSolo episodes now get a cover from your show's own artwork
Solo episodes now get a cover from your show's own artwork
Twenty solo episodes, no guest, no logo, no template. Now the cover generator works from the show cover you already have.
Read articleClips That Keep Your Layout
Clips That Keep Your Layout
If you record a vertical version of your episode, PodGlue now cuts your clips from it, so the layout you built is the layout that gets posted.
Read articleGet Your Show on Every Podcast App
Get Your Show on Every Podcast App
PodGlue already gives your show a public feed. Now it walks you through submitting it to Apple, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube Music, iHeart, Pandora and Podcast Index.
Read articleKeep Working While the AI Works
Keep Working While the AI Works
PodGlue used to make you stare at a waiting screen, sometimes with a puzzle on it. Now you can send the job to the background and keep going.
Read articleWhen Amber Meant Two Things
When Amber Meant Two Things
Two screens in PodGlue used the same color for different stages of an episode. Here's how we gave every color one job.
Read articleOne Color, One Meaning
One Color, One Meaning
PodGlue's notifications used different shades of green to say the same thing. They now follow one rule: one color, one meaning, one look.
Read articleThe Cover Generator Was Asking for the Wrong Thing
The Cover Generator Was Asking for the Wrong Thing
Every guest episode hit the same error, no matter what you filled in. Here's why, and what changed.
Read articleDiscovery Calls Get Their Own Emails
Discovery Calls Get Their Own Emails
People who booked a discovery call with me were getting emails about recording a podcast episode. Now they get their own reminders, written for a conversation.
Read articleYou Decide What Your Guest Hears
You Decide What Your Guest Hears
PodGlue sends a few emails to your guests before a recording. Now none of them go out until you've read the words and said yes.
Read articleEdit Your Video by Editing the Transcript
Edit Your Video by Editing the Transcript
PodGlue now lets you cut a podcast video by deleting words in the transcript. It suggests the cuts a podcaster usually makes, leaves sacred speech alone, and keeps your original so you can undo it.
Read articleYour Numbers, Your Call: Performance Tracking Is Off Until You Turn It On
Your Numbers, Your Call: Performance Tracking Is Off Until You Turn It On
PodGlue can now learn from how your published posts perform. It only does that after you say yes, and you can say no again any time.
Read articleThumbnails That Stop the Scroll: Three Thumbnail and Title Pairs in PodGlue
Thumbnails That Stop the Scroll: Three Thumbnail and Title Pairs in PodGlue
PodGlue now makes YouTube thumbnails the way the top channels do: a real face and a few big words to stop the scroll, and a separate title to open the curiosity gap.
Read articleThe Clips You Never Saw: Two Quiet PodGlue Fixes
The Clips You Never Saw: Two Quiet PodGlue Fixes
PodGlue was quietly throwing away good clip moments because the AI tidied up how people actually talk. That's fixed, and the episode menu no longer sits on top of what you're reading.
Read articleUpload the Whole Episode: Video Files Up to 20GB, and They Pick Up Where They Left Off
Upload the Whole Episode: Video Files Up to 20GB, and They Pick Up Where They Left Off
Most podcast recordings are bigger than 500MB. Now you can upload the whole thing to PodGlue, even a multi-gigabyte master, and if the upload gets interrupted it picks up where it stopped.
Read articleEdit Anywhere, Land in PodGlue: Your AI Assistant Can Now Add Episodes
Edit Anywhere, Land in PodGlue: Your AI Assistant Can Now Add Episodes
I edited my new trailer in another app, and the hardest part was getting it back into PodGlue. Now your AI assistant can bring a finished video into your show as a draft episode, from a link.
Read articleThe PodGlue Phone App Was Quietly Wrong. Here's What I Fixed.
The PodGlue Phone App Was Quietly Wrong. Here's What I Fixed.
I went through PodGlue's iPhone app next to the web app and found a handful of things that looked fine and weren't. None of them showed an error. That was the problem.
Read articleBring Your Own Video: Upload It, Get the Transcript, Make the Clips
Bring Your Own Video: Upload It, Get the Transcript, Make the Clips
You no longer have to record in PodGlue to use your video in PodGlue. Upload the file you already have, and you get a transcript, clip suggestions and ready-to-post vertical clips in your show's colors.
Read articleWhy Studio Is Now a Beta Feature You Ask For
Why Studio Is Now a Beta Feature You Ask For
PodGlue's recording Studio and hosted feeds are the newest parts of the product. Instead of pretending they're finished, we've put them in a Beta Features section you opt into.
Read articleVerbs, Not Nouns: Tidying Up PodGlue's Sidebar
Verbs, Not Nouns: Tidying Up PodGlue's Sidebar
A beta tester pointed out that PodGlue's sidebar mixed verbs and nouns, and that the Planner talked to itself instead of to you. Both were right.
Read articleUploading Your Logo Shouldn't Erase Your Show
Uploading Your Logo Shouldn't Erase Your Show
A bug in PodGlue's settings meant uploading a new cover or logo quietly cleared your show's feed link and booking page address. It's fixed.
Read articleThe Page That Gave Everything Away and Asked for Nothing
The Page That Gave Everything Away and Asked for Nothing
I built a free guide that teaches AI to write like you. Then I noticed a visitor could finish all six prompts and I'd never know they existed. Here's what I changed.
Read articleNot Every Podcast Is a Business
Not Every Podcast Is a Business
PodGlue's setup asked every podcaster about their ideal client. A lot of great shows don't have clients. Now it asks what your show is for first.
Read articleIf You Already Have a Show, PodGlue Should Already Know It
If You Already Have a Show, PodGlue Should Already Know It
Setting up PodGlue used to mean retyping everything your podcast feed already says. Now you paste the feed and check what we found.
Read articleOur Onboarding Assumed You Were Starting From Zero
Our Onboarding Assumed You Were Starting From Zero
A beta tester walked through PodGlue's setup and hit a wall at every step that assumed they had no show, no cover art, and a spare half hour. Here's what we changed.
Read articleThe Email Said the Interview Moved. The Zoom Meeting Didn't.
The Email Said the Interview Moved. The Zoom Meeting Didn't.
A guest's interview got rescheduled twice. Everyone got the right email. The actual Zoom meeting never moved. Here's what we changed so that can't happen quietly again.
Read articleWe Turned Off a Button That Never Actually Worked
We Turned Off a Button That Never Actually Worked
PodGlue had a clip generation feature in Settings for weeks. Almost nobody could actually turn it on. We just removed it, and we're building the replacement ourselves.
Read articleThe App Never Told You Your Card Was Declined
The App Never Told You Your Card Was Declined
PodGlue could tell you were paying, or that you weren't. It had no way to tell you your payment had just failed, which is a very different problem to wake up to.
Read articleSeven Filters, Three Questions
Seven Filters, Three Questions
The episode list had seven dropdowns across the top. Nobody has ever wanted to combine two of them. They want to know what is new, what is out, and what is unfinished.
Read articleThe Questions We Sent Your Guest Were Written for You
The Questions We Sent Your Guest Were Written for You
Seven questions, ready to email. One was a welcome. One was where can people find you. A host cannot forward that list without rewriting it, which was the entire point of the feature.
Read articleWe Told Your Guest the Interview Already Happened
We Told Your Guest the Interview Already Happened
A guest booked for next Thursday opened their page and read that the conversation was in the can and the episode was being edited. The date underneath it was five days away.
Read articleYour Old Episodes Were Filed as Ideas
Your Old Episodes Were Filed as Ideas
Import a show with two hundred published episodes and PodGlue would open every one of them on a page asking what you planned to talk about. The conversation happened two years ago.
Read articleNobody Was There to Press the Button
Nobody Was There to Press the Button
A guest booked, the episode created itself, and the prep email went out right on schedule with the questions missing. The automatic path was the one that skipped the step.
Read articleThe Comment You Couldn't Take Back
The Comment You Couldn't Take Back
The Build Room showed whatever name your sign-in handed it, forever, and once you posted a comment it was locked. Fixing the sign-in link surfaced both.
Read articleThe Menu Was in the Order I Built It
The Menu Was in the Order I Built It
The Amplify step in PodGlue listed ten tools in the order I'd shipped them, not the order you'd use them. The first click dropped you into the wrong one.
Read articleThe Cover You Made Before You Had a Brand
The Cover You Made Before You Had a Brand
PodGlue asked you to generate cover art during setup, the one moment it knew nothing about your show. That was backwards.
Read articleWhat My Guests Were Actually Seeing
What My Guests Were Actually Seeing
A guest told me their portal page looked empty. They were right, and the reason was worse than I expected.
Read articleI Was Describing My Voice Instead of Showing It
I Was Describing My Voice Instead of Showing It
PodGlue wrote my opening scripts from a paragraph I'd written about how I talk. It turns out that's the worst possible way to teach it.
Read articleI Built the Warning, Then Walked Around It
I Built the Warning, Then Walked Around It
PodGlue tells you whether your guest already got the 'your episode is live' email. Unless you sent it yourself, in which case it told you nobody had.
Read articleThe Questions I Kept Forgetting To Send
The Questions I Kept Forgetting To Send
PodGlue could email a guest their questions before the interview. It just needed me to remember. That turned out to be the whole problem.
Read articleThe Episode Is Already There
The Episode Is Already There
A guest books. Their episode now exists before you've opened the app. Small change, and it removed a step I'd been doing hundreds of times without noticing.
Read articleThe Guests I Never Told
The Guests I Never Told
PodGlue could email a guest when their episode went live. It just never did it for most of my guests, and I couldn't see which ones.
Read articleThe Emails That Stopped Without Telling Anyone
The Emails That Stopped Without Telling Anyone
My guest reminders quietly stopped going out. Nothing was broken, according to everything that was supposed to tell me something was broken.
Read articleTwo Accounts, One Slot
Two Accounts, One Slot
I have two Instagram accounts and two Facebook Pages. PodGlue had room for one of each. Fixing that uncovered a second problem I would rather have found this way than the other way.
Read articleFacebook Said Connected And Meant Nothing Of The Sort
Facebook Said Connected And Meant Nothing Of The Sort
The settings page showed a green Connected badge. The connection it was describing could not have posted a single thing. The permissions were fine, the code was reading the wrong answer.
Read articleSomeone Booked Me For Thursday Morning. It Landed Wednesday Night.
Someone Booked Me For Thursday Morning. It Landed Wednesday Night.
A booking team picked a slot my own calendar offered them, set the timezone correctly, and still put the interview twelve hours away from where everyone thought it was. The dropdown they used wasn't connected to anything.
Read articleThe Best Moments Of 68 Episodes Were Being Thrown Away
The Best Moments Of 68 Episodes Were Being Thrown Away
PodGlue was pulling the quotable moments out of every conversation, then dropping every single one on the floor before anyone saw them. The feature looked empty. It was actually working perfectly and being ignored.
Read articleI Was Sending You A Receipt, Not An Update
I Was Sending You A Receipt, Not An Update
Every week I emailed a list of what I'd shipped. It was accurate and completely uninteresting, because the reason behind each item was being thrown away before the email was ever written.
Read articleMy Database Lied To Me For Seven Weeks
My Database Lied To Me For Seven Weeks
The ledger said four updates were installed. The database didn't have them. Everything downstream failed on a schedule, reported the failure to a table that didn't exist, and looked green the entire time.
Read articleThe Fix That Worked, And Quietly Charged Me Twice
The Fix That Worked, And Quietly Charged Me Twice
I moved transcription somewhere it had time to finish. It did finish, eventually, slowly, and often more than once for the same episode. The stalling wasn't the expensive part.
Read articleMy Longest Episodes Were The Ones That Wouldn't Transcribe
My Longest Episodes Were The Ones That Wouldn't Transcribe
The transcript step had a hard time limit of two and a half minutes. Most of my episodes are an hour. I'd been guarding against big files when the actual problem was the clock.
Read articleSome Episodes Just Stopped, And Nothing Told Me
Some Episodes Just Stopped, And Nothing Told Me
An episode would come in, sit there, and never produce show notes or a newsletter. No error, no warning. It looked exactly like an episode I hadn't gotten to yet.
Read articleI Kept Finding One More Place This Bug Was Hiding
I Kept Finding One More Place This Bug Was Hiding
Fixing the dead episode link in the newsletter should have been the end of it. It wasn't. The same mistake kept showing up somewhere new, and the only reason I found each one was clicking the actual button.
Read articleI Clicked My Own Episode Link and It Went Nowhere
I Clicked My Own Episode Link and It Went Nowhere
Nearly every episode link PodGlue put in a newsletter or a social post pointed at a page that didn't exist. It never threw an error. It just quietly went nowhere, and the only way to find that out was to click one.
Read articleMy Own Homepage Was Overselling What Proof Does
My Own Homepage Was Overselling What Proof Does
The FAQ said PodGlue Proof checks every piece against your voice and brand before anything goes out. It didn't. Here's what it actually does, and why I'd rather undersell it than keep that line up.
Read articleMy Newsletter Finally Looks Like a Real Email
My Newsletter Finally Looks Like a Real Email
Fixing the wall-of-text bug was only half the job. The draft still didn't look designed. And chasing that down turned up a rule of mine that wasn't actually being enforced anywhere.
Read articleMy Newsletter Showed Up in Kit as One Long Paragraph
My Newsletter Showed Up in Kit as One Long Paragraph
PodGlue wrote the email, dropped it in Kit, and every paragraph break was gone. The copy was fine. The trip between the two apps was not.
Read articleI Kept Clicking Into the Wrong Episode
I Kept Clicking Into the Wrong Episode
Create an episode, land on a completely different one. The cause was a default value nobody chose, quietly claiming an address that was already taken.
Read articleThe Clip That Took an Hour to Make Nothing
The Clip That Took an Hour to Make Nothing
Vertical video with captions is live in PodGlue. It nearly shipped in a state where every clip would have burned an hour of server time and then failed.
Read articleI Was Shipping Things Nobody Knew About
I Was Shipping Things Nobody Knew About
We wrote release notes every week. They lived on a page nobody had a reason to visit. So the work happened, and the people it was for never found out.
Read articleI Was Reading My Own Calendar in Someone Else's Timezone
I Was Reading My Own Calendar in Someone Else's Timezone
My booking list said 3:00. It meant 3:00 in Tokyo. Nothing on the screen told me that.
Read articleNobody Talks About the Waiting
Nobody Talks About the Waiting
There's a new puzzle game inside the PodGlue iOS app. It exists because of the ninety seconds you spend staring at a progress bar.
Read articleI Forgot I Had a Recording on Tuesday
I Forgot I Had a Recording on Tuesday
Nobody was late. Nothing was double-booked. I just hadn't looked at my own week, and I'd stopped trusting myself to remember.
Read articleMy Booking Page Made People Scroll To Book
My Booking Page Made People Scroll To Book
The calendar looked fine on my monitor. On a laptop, the button that actually books the interview was below the fold the whole time.
Read articleMy Calendar Invite Finally Tells Me Who I'm Talking To
My Calendar Invite Finally Tells Me Who I'm Talking To
Ten minutes before a recording, the calendar event said a name and an email. Everything the guest had actually told me was somewhere else.
Read articleI Gave PodGlue My Own Run of Show
I Gave PodGlue My Own Run of Show
PodGlue was generating a run of show, a list of questions, and an intro script. Three separate documents. I was doing the work of stitching them together in my head while recording.
Read articleI Kept Opening the Calendar and Learning Nothing
I Kept Opening the Calendar and Learning Nothing
Ten minutes before a recording I'd click the event and get a name, an email, and a link. Everything the guest had actually told me was somewhere else.
Read articleMy Booking Page Was Offering This Morning
My Booking Page Was Offering This Morning
At three in the afternoon, my calendar was still showing nine, ten and eleven as open. Not tomorrow's nine. Today's.
Read articleBlocking an Hour Was Costing Me the Day
Blocking an Hour Was Costing Me the Day
I blocked 2pm to 3pm for an appointment. My booking page quietly took the whole day off. And a booking I'd cancelled was still holding its slot hostage.
Read articleMy Booking Page Said Come Back in October
My Booking Page Said Come Back in October
My Thursdays were wide open. My booking page told every guest the soonest I could talk was two months out. It was wrong in both directions at once, and no error was ever logged.
Read articleA Discovery Call Is Not an Interview
A Discovery Call Is Not an Interview
My booking page treated a 15-minute chat and a 90-minute recording as the same thing. Offering one meant offering both, and I'd been quietly working around it for months.
Read articleThe Money Was Already in the Room
The Money Was Already in the Room
Every guide to making money podcasting starts with the same advice: get more downloads. I built a tool that tells most people the opposite, and it will refuse to point you at sponsorship if your numbers aren't there yet.
Read articleThe Top of My Screen Was Doing Nothing for Me
The Top of My Screen Was Doing Nothing for Me
I opened PodGlue and counted five things in the top corner competing for my attention. None of them were the work. So I cleaned it up.
Read articleThe Diagrams Were There the Whole Time
The Diagrams Were There the Whole Time
Four diagrams on our homepage quietly stopped showing up. The images were fine. The server refused to serve them. Here's how a one-line allowlist miss hid our best explainers, and how we made sure it can't happen again.
Read articleThe Guest Can Finally See Where Things Stand
The Guest Can Finally See Where Things Stand
One of my favorite guests spent nine months politely asking when his episode would go live. He deserved a page, not a thread. Now every guest gets one.
Read articleThe Guest Journey Now Runs Itself
The Guest Journey Now Runs Itself
A guest books a time, gets a real confirmation, gets reminded before the recording, and can even get the questions in advance. Four gaps in that journey closed in one day of parallel building.
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