53. How we launched Metacast in beta

We broke Metacast just before launching it in open beta. Ouch.

On this episode, we talk about the launch, how it went, and what we’ve learned.

Get Metacast at ⁠⁠metacast.app⁠⁠.

Join the ⁠r/metacastapp⁠ subreddit.

Chapters

• 02:13 - Get The Pragmatic Podcaster book for free
• 03:33 - We broke Metacast just before launch
• 08:39 - How we fixed the problem
• 14:04 - The other way we broke the app
• 16:27 - Publishing to Apple and Google
• 20:04 - Marketing for open beta
• 24:10 - Business metrics
• 30:38 - This is just the beginning
• 34:20 - Podcast and book recommendations

Links

Metacast

• Get Metacast for iOS and Android
• r/metacastapp subreddit
• The Pragmatic Podcaster book by Ilya

Open beta launch content and mentions

• Reddit post
• LinkedIn post
• Pod News mention

Tools

• Tramline - CI/CD for mobile apps

Podcasts

• Metacast Ep. 40 - Automating mobile app releases with Tramline founders
• Builders Gonna Build
• Podcast Marketing Trends Explained
• We Tried the Apple Vision Pro + Can Congress Protect Kids Online? + Cruise’s Crash on the Hard Fork podcast
• The Vision Pro Reviews Are Here on the Techmeme Ride Home podcast
• Zuckerberg on the Vision Pro vs. Quest (video)
• How the Acquired podcast grew, and why they switched to Transistor on the Build Your SaaS podcast
• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on the Acquired podcast
• Charlie Munger on the Acquired podcast

Books

• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Download the Metacast podcast app for free

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/metacast/id6462012536
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player

Get in touch

• Contact us: hello@metacastpodcast.com
• Ilya's LinkedIn
• Arnab's LinkedIn