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wenbin
1,859karma·556submissions·August 31, 2014
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Maker of the best podcast search engine and podcast api: ListenNotes.com & PodcastAPI.com
Email: wenbin@listennotes.com
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i’ve built a few web apps. the closest to a “vending machine” is https://Transcript.New – dead simple, transactional, zero outages in 14 months, and almost no support emails (maybe 2 in th…
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If you manage to curate a large enough collection of AI-generated playlists, would you consider putting it on Kaggle? This way, others could use it to train AI models to automatically detect AI-genera…
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It’s great to see more companies adopting fair pricing models. The first time I encountered this was with Slack—they only charge for active users. We follow a similar approach with our products : 1) P…
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Awesome! The best we’ve achieved is 0 downtime for read operations and less than 1 minute downtime for write ops [1] Achieving 0 downtime for write ops is super hard! [1] https://www.listen…
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soon, you’ll see a lot of ai-generated fake podcasts in podcast player apps. Here’s a list of such fake podcasts (several thousands, many are in Apple Podcasts) :
https://www.kaggle.com…
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Good job! If you need episode search, check out PodcastAPI.com
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Cloudflare is truly awesome! They offer incredibly generous infrastructure components for individuals and small businesses. If you’re looking to host a podcast with a custom domain name and need signi…
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AI-generated music can be acceptable in certain contexts, such as white noise for coding, running, or working out, where the primary goal is background ambiance rather than active listening. However, …
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hetzner is cheap, but cheap often has hidden costs / risks. aws, azure, and gcp aren’t cheap , but they offer better stability—both technically and operationally.
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This is awesome! Is there an example list from Snack.xyz? People love building lists on the internet. Browser bookmarks are lists. Podcasts/RSS feeds are lists. YouTube has Watch Later / pla…
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This is definitely not a new issue. What I’m aiming for is to ensure that the NotebookLM team is aware of the impact and actively considering it. Hopefully, they are already working on tools or mechan…
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It’s definitely more than that. The 1,300+ shows are just the ones recently removed from Listen Notes. Give it a few days, and I’m sure the number will double, quadruple, and continue to grow. :(
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NotebookLM is contributing to fake podcasts across the internet, with over 1,300 and counting: https://github.com/ListenNotes/ai-generated-fake-podcasts/bl... Google is taki…
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Great question. We only need to provide the sitemap (with custom paths, not publicly available) in a few specific places, like Google Search Console. This means the rules for managing sitemaps are qui…
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At Listen Notes, we rely heavily on Cloudflare to manage and protect our services, which cater to both human users and scripts/bots. One particularly effective strategy we've implemented is …
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If you want something simple, try this one: https://www.microfeed.org/
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The argument is that it's fine to generate AI podcasts for personal use, but please refrain from polluting the public space. Statistically, the majority of AI-generated podcasts found on podcast …
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I find Notebook LM helpful for generating content for personal projects, like creating my own 'podcasts' on topics I choose. But would you listen to 'podcasts' generated by others …
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At Listen Notes, we recently removed over 500 fake podcasts generated by Notebook LM in just the past weekend. It's disappointing to see scammers and black-hat SEOs already leveraging Notebook LM…