Metacast: Behind the Scenes

One Year of Metacast: The Survaviversary

Celebrating one year of surviving as a bootstrapped indie business with 50% off Premium

Oct 13 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

2

September 2025

Summer update

What we've been up to this summer

Sep 12 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

3

June 2025

Metacast v1.21: Follow private and paid RSS feeds (beta)

Follow Patreon, Substack and other paid feeds by feed URL on Metacast. Enjoy transcripts, summaries, chapters, search, and bookmarks with your private…

Jun 18 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

1

May 2025

Metacast v1.20: Podcast summaries, faster images and a buncha other goodies!

See what the episode is about in an AI-generated summary, get notified when a new app update is available, faster loading of podcast covers, and more.

May 28 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

Metacast v1.19: New podcast sharing UX + rebrand

Share podcasts with ease with the new URLs, QR codes, and AirDrop.

May 12 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

2

April 2025

Metacast v1.18 — take a peek at our design process

Why we build what we build.

Apr 17 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

Q1 2025 Retrospective

What we've been up to this year so far — new features, marketing, spiking costs, LLM bot invasion, and DIY corporate taxes.

Apr 13 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

2

Our biggest struggle — distribution

It's been almost 2 years since we started the company and about 6 months since we launched. We're struggling with distribution and marketing.

Apr 4 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

5

2

1

January 2025

2024: Year in Review, plans for 2025

The rose, the gold, the deep blue, and the shades of gray of bootstrapping a startup.

Jan 30 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

3

2

December 2024

November 2024

Our first $500 in revenue

Celebrating a milestone

Nov 14, 2024 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

3

October 2024

Dropping the price by 60%

Metacast Premium is now $19.99

Oct 18, 2024 • 

Ilya Bezdelev

1