Excitement for Black Mirror and Voice Notes update
Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is a very good morning. Um, mainly because Black Mirror season seven has just dropped. So I'm excited to watch that today. So that might take up all of my time. Um, I'm going to try and work first before I get into that, but that's going to be the major part of the media day.
I just want to do a quick post this morning because Voice Notes has pushed a lovely update with pages and also done a whole section for a little movie and everything to promote it. And, um, I just wanted to give him a shout out that it's great to see the progress of the product and how they're really leaning into like design and really dress that up with like a movie and establishing that kind of like friendship bond of like getting people to record content, make content again, you know, instead of just being consumers actually making more creators out there. And it's great to see them get behind some of the early adopters. I think it was Nick Nicole, uh, the, uh, farmer, um, back there in England. That was really cool to see.
But I wanted to just throw a few things out there today. Uh, one of the things is that, um, the little audio podcast, the things really need RSS. They really need RSS feeds because not everybody wants to consume or subscribe to those little podcasts and get emails, especially if I'm banging out little audio podcasts all day long, say I'm at an event doing interviews, things like that. Um, I want to be able to, uh, record and push in real time ideally. So it's relevant real time. Um, if I can get RSS feeds, that means I can build a little script to send those updates from the RSS feed into a Blue Sky.
I did look at using X, but unfortunately nowadays you have to pay for the API, which most people won't do. Uh, even though X is probably a good form of traffic that being said, um, RSS feeds were really good instead of just email subscribe. I think it's pretty easy or relatively easy to bolt that in.
Also, I was thinking this morning that this is what always happens to me is I get really excited about platforms like this. Um, I kind of got done dirty by Audio Boo, audio boo.fm back in the day. I used that for maybe two, three years and I recorded religiously on that. And I think that contributed to, uh, helping when I was doing blogging on me.dm, which I eventually sold to Twitter, which became a short link for Medium and then got changed to a short link to, um, a Mastodon instance for Medium, which is kind of cool.
Um, and it won't have happened. I don't think if I hadn't been recording audio podcasts every day. I was probably at about 2000 podcasts. And, um, a lot of that stuff was hitting my blog at Medium. So Medium was massive at like 2000, 2000, 3000 pages. And so when you did a search for Medium.com, the blogging platform, you would see those pop up in the search history, which obviously they didn't really want to see. So they basically paid me to go away, which was very, very nice. And, uh, I would love to do something like that again.
Uh, I don't know if that era has gone though. The short domains are pretty much bought up now. Um, I could probably have sold it for a lot more money at the time. I didn't realize what I was sitting on, but there you go. Could've should've would've. It did change my life, did turn my life around, came at a very important time.
But the biggest thing I wanted to say about that was, uh, it really upsets me when I have to move platform or I have to export my stuff away. Or when we lose access to these programs, this whole community vibe of like, you know, friendship, leaving a note for a friend or, or a blog update, maybe two or three years down the line. Unfortunately, what happens is that somebody acquires the company that starts showing big money. You know, we want to buy this for millions and the community always gets screwed by it. And I'm not, I'm not having a dig at, um, the team behind Voice Notes because I don't believe for one minute they're going to do that.
But obviously when you're working on a passion project like this and it's a lot of work, a lot of support, a lot of back and forth, you know, with customers and clients, it can get to the point where, you know, you two or three years in and a big deal comes across the table or somebody offers a bunch of money and it's very attractive to want to like jump on that and, you know, just be rewarded for your work.
Now, when I originally saw Voice Notes, uh, I'm still kicking myself that I never took the $50 lifetime deal. It's so annoying because I went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I just, I watched a video with, I, I'm going to pronounce his name wrong, but I think it's Gilo, and his wife. And I just knew that like it was a passion project for him and her, and I really was invested in it. I just didn't have 50 bucks at the time and I'd missed out on that because now it's like $70 a year, which by the way is worth it, just for the AI features, being able to record a little voice note and have the AI dig through it.
But here's my thing, I, one, I don't wanna invest my time in a platform for two or three years just to eventually lose access to it or it gets sold out to somebody else and they up the price of it. So I really, really hope that they double down on the community, maybe think about bringing some deals like lifetime deals back in or some other additional income streams that can keep them afloat or keep them in the money.
Because something like this, I would love to see the era of applications and platforms that are around for the next 10 years rather than the next two or three years. And I don't really wanna move to another platform and I don't wanna be in the hands of another company just comes along and starts adding bells and whistles to it or increases the price of it or whatever.
So yeah, that's my little note for this morning and I will catch up with you soon. It's great to see the new pages support and I hope we have some new additional share to locations. Blue Sky would be useful. All right, I'll catch you later. See you later, bye.