Accidental Tech Podcast683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug
https://atp.fm/683
MacBook Neo hands-on, Studio Display XDR eyes-on, and how Overcast is transcribing podcasts at scale.
Chris Poole@atpfm Mind blown. @marcoarment I missed why you didn’t just continue using the MacMiniColo type companies… just to make it cheaper in the long run if you can do it yourself?
Beyond the cool tech functionality is there any ROI for the capex investment of the Mac Minis? Doesn’t seem your style but did you think of a B2B type thing where you provide an API for other podcast players to ask for a transcript and pay you for it?
Marco Arment@chrispoole @atpfm Doing my own colo was much cheaper once I crossed a certain number of Mac Minis.
Hosting is Overcast's biggest expense, so I take on hosting costs very carefully.
sayrer@marcoarment @chrispoole @atpfm you may find some traction by saying "Identify opportunities to use Accelerate.framework or Metal in this program." to Claude Code (also just "find bugs in this program", which I always do to my own stuff, but not usually to other people's GitHub stuff)
@marcoarment @chrispoole @atpfm also, it must support Spanish in some flavor? There are a lot of them, but there are two distinct flavors of PT as well.
The Apple folks *love it* when you support Dutch for some reason. Do it right away when you can, then you'll be featured and stuff.
Also, the app itself is not localized (Callsheet is, ask Casey). This doesn't matter for Dutch users, because they all speak perfect English. Spanish and Portuguese might be worth it, though.