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What shipped at PodGlue this week — v1.9.11

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read
PodGlue · Weekly Update
Week of July 27

Hey Reader,

Here's what shipped at PodGlue this week, and the thinking behind a few of the moves. We build in the open, so this is the real log, not a highlight reel.

185
PRs merged
87
Issues closed
4
Releases shipped
Last 30 days. The work doesn't stop.
✨ Shipped this week v1.9.11
+  Community Score: public diagnostic on the five community criteria
+  Community app: link members to their public guest identity
+  Stage-relevant reading link in guest emails, host-toggleable
+  Guest geo-map tab + location geocoding
🐛 And the fixes that keep it solid
•  Allow guest.podglue.com origin so the Network tab loads
•  Welcome email fired at recording time, not at booking
•  Alert on data freshness and apply migrations in CI
•  Guests never received reminders, platform-wide
•  Stop publishing guest intake to the public RSS feed
📖 Lessons from building in the open

Every ship teaches us something. Here's what's on our mind.

One Appearance Is Not a Relationship

You spent an hour in real conversation with someone, and then you both went back to your lives and never spoke again. That is the normal outcome, and it is the biggest waste in podcasting.

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How to Promote an Episode You Were a Guest On

Your episode went live, you posted the link, and it did nothing. The problem is almost never the audience. It is that a link asks people to leave, and nothing in the post tells them why they should.

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Your Guest Already Told You How to Interview Them

Guests fill out your intake form with the exact stuff that makes an interview feel like a conversation. Then it dies in a calendar invite. PodGlue now turns that intake into the context that writes your run of show, even when the booking came from somewhere else.

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Junaid Ahmed

Home Studio Architect

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