James Potter

@jamespotter.dev

Building rephonic.com (podcast database). Distracted by ratethispodcast.com (get reviews), reletter.com (newsletter database), hacka.network (maker meetups)

End of an era after 14 years. But I will happily never touch the App Store again. Horrible quagmire of a platform. Pictured: my first janky app written with Objective-C in 2011 when you still had to do manual garbage collection 😅

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✅ Added sponsors and cross-promos to Rephonic. - What are they selling? - The text transcript of the ad - Did the host read it? - Call to action Happy shipuary

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This list had quite a big impact on me. These are called styles of distorted thinking and it's likely that you can relate to at least a few of them. Personally I'm big on "mind reading". I'm trying to re-read it every couple of weeks and train myself to notice the thoughts as they come up.

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I've wrestled with SVG world maps, chart libraries and various grid layouts. I've committed an ungodly number of changes to git with the message "tweak". But overall I'm pretty happy with this new screen.

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Of all the apps I use I'll be most upset when this one goes away. I use it constantly. It hasn't been updated since 2015 and I can't even find it on the Mac App Store now. The main thing is the draggable slider that lets you go forward/back in time. If anyone knows an alternative let me know!

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I've been cross-posting on here and the other places (🐦🦋🧵) and wanting to share the links with friends in the group chat for the updoots. It's a bit annoying so I scratched my own itch and made this quick tool to paste the links and get a shareable page with embeds.

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I started rolling out a ton of new search filters in Rephonic that use the new structured data I've been extracting from episode transcripts using GPT-4o-mini.

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We're experimenting with YouTube videos again. I know other B2B SaaS founders who've had a lot of success with it. I tried to record these myself last time but that created a bottleneck so we hired Matt and he is way better at it. Any pro tips for growing your channel?

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