CEO / Co-Founder / Dev / Janitor for Podcast Guru
We've got users waiting on bug fixes, it took 2 weeks of review to get our release approved just for beta testing, and now it's taking another 2 weeks (and counting) to get the exact same binary approved again to production / Play store.
If Google doesn't get their shit together soon we're going to have to invest in alternative distribution methods. (Probably should do that anyway).
C'mon Google, our latest app release has been sitting in your review queue for 5 days now. I miss the old days.
Re Amy's response to
"Creators don’t need podcast apps to get a cut."
Sure then. Go build your own app, hosting provider and a search engine while you're at it, with your own funds. Then you'll get the transparency you insist you are owed.
My labor isn't free.
-> thanks for this, matches my thinking exactly.
They want better app metrics for their ad-tech but the only "app" in their council is Spotify. 😆
There's a right way to do this IMO, but this is not it.
https://podnews.net/press-release/alliance-for-measurement-in-podcasting
We just deployed our boost-meta service for Podcast Guru, the app will go into beta using it very soon. But it's a REST service where you can retrieve payment stats + TLV details via a simple GET request. I've been working in isolation too much and wasn't really aware that everyone else was trying to solve this problem too. Will consider our own API / endpoint alpha state and hopefully we'll all coalesce on a working standard.
11/9/2025, 1 engagement
Getting really tired of this, we can't be the only ones who suffer through it. A few podcasters out there believe that podcast apps require explicit permission to use a public RSS feed. I tried explaining to them that an RSS feed is like a website, and they are trying to say Safari wasn't given permission to load it. But there's no reasoning with them.
These particular nasties have gone so far as to try to get our app delisted from the app store.
8/29/2025, 1 engagement
Been working on this for quite awhile. Anyone can now sign-up to our VIP tier via Stripe on our website. Keeping the price dirt cheap for now until we are sure we have worked out all the glitches.
https://podcastguru.io/podcast-guru-web-app/podcast-guru-vip-now-available-via-stripe/
8/25/2025, 1 engagement
Currently being bullied by a podcaster because an ancient episode from their podcast (that's no longer in their feed) is cached on someones phone (new subscribers won't see it), and they are trying to get Apple to boot us of the app store because of this.
On top of this (at least in their video evidence) the audio still plays because they haven't removed the content from where ever they are hosting it from.
PG 2.1.6 is now out (Android), link to the full release notes on our blog: https://podcastguru.io/podcast-guru-android/5162/
4/27/2025, 2 engagements
- problem downloading older episodes of BB currently
2025-01-22 20:04:16,353 - root - ERROR - Error downloading https://op3.dev/e/ipfspodcasting.net/e/mp3s.nashownotes.com/BBALL-16-2023-12-02-Final.mp3: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ipfs.podcastgateway.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /ipfs/QmNVgHU5iXHtGcDf2kxnTeMcqnLyLKNU8eyaMeADmgTdcZ/BBALL-16-2023-12-02-Final.mp3 (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x110924860>, 'Connection to ipfs.podcastgateway.com timed out. (connect timeout=None)'))
Latest version of PG supports bolt11 payments, should be rolling out now on both Android / iOS. Still eyeballing Stryke integration.
1/18/2025, 1 engagement
After almost 3 months of constant traveling, back home and I should be a lot more responsive / productive than I have been recently.