Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by wenbin on Sunday May 16, 2021 @01:03PM (#27175084)

Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to consuming web contents, I don’t bookmark entire websites. I just search on google, read the web page, then move on :)

[1] https://www.listennotes.com

[edit] This is my Show HN of Listen Notes in early 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310834

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by mr_o47 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:34PM (#27176792)

I love listen notes, It has made it easier to search for specific podcast which I had to discover myself. now I just use Listen Notes to search with few keywords and I’m able to find the podcast for my taste.

Anyways love your product and I definitely enjoyed reading your article on medium where you talked about how you ran the entire company as a solo dev and that’s how I discovered ListenNotes back then

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by zigzaggy on Sunday May 16, 2021 @01:53PM (#27175567)

Whoa! I'm glad I found this. I think it'll fit into my writing workflow. Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by wenbin on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:07PM (#27175699)

Most searches are about people's names, e.g., book author's name, a celebrity's name, a CEO's name...

And you can curate playlists of episodes by topic / people, e.g.,

- Scott Galloway https://lnns.co/0LWEK3dhSfy

- Female VCs: https://lnns.co/depiDjM1XvQ

- More playlists: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-playlists/

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by zachwill on Sunday May 16, 2021 @01:31PM (#27175352)

I'm a huge fan of Listen Notes!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by wenbin on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:05PM (#27175671)

Thank you :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by srhrshr on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @02:26PM (#27212471)

I'm curious to know if you thought about building the capability of searching through the audio itself - did you run into transcription costs being a limitation?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by theSealedTanker on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:56AM (#27220496)

I applied for listen notes API request but didn't get a reply back. I hope you get this sorted out. Time is valuable

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by Moosdijk on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:22PM (#27199700)

The captcha experience was awful but the search was perfect.

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