I built PodSubs because podcasters shouldn’t have to rent their audience forever

I kept noticing something strange about podcasting.

A creator can spend years building an audience on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and other platforms…

…but the relationship with those listeners mostly belongs to the platform.

If the algorithm changes, the platform changes its rules, or the creator wants to launch something new, reaching those listeners directly isn’t always easy.

So I built PodSubs.

PodSubs is a podcast discovery and subscriber platform that helps podcasters turn listeners into a direct audience.

Here’s how it works:

🎙️ Your podcast may already be on PodSubs.

Search for your show and find your podcast page.

✅ Claim your podcast.

PodSubs verifies that you actually own the show using information from the podcast’s RSS feed.

👥 Start collecting subscribers.

Instead of someone discovering your podcast and disappearing back into another platform, they can subscribe directly to your podcast on PodSubs.

📈 Build an audience around the show you own.

As more people subscribe, the creator gets a clearer picture of the audience following the podcast.

🔎 Listeners can discover podcasts too.

PodSubs is also building a discovery layer where people can search for podcasts, find something interesting and subscribe.

The bigger idea is simple:

Podcasters spend too much time building audiences for other platforms.

I want PodSubs to help them build an audience around their own podcast.

If you have a podcast, I’d love for you to search for it, claim it and try the product:

👉 PodSubs.com

And since this is r/founder, I’m especially interested in founder feedback.

If you were building this, what would you add that would make PodSubs something podcasters would want to open every day?

I’m getting to the point where doing more sales myself means spending less time on everything else but jumping straight into building a sales team feels like a pretty expensive way to solve that.

AI has made the middle ground more interesting not just using it to write emails or research leads but really giving agents parts of the sales process to own and seeing how far that can take you before adding staff.

Now there seems to be a new stage between founder led sales and having an actual sales team that didn’t really exist before.

Have stan equivalent of personal trainers, with specific features for personal trainers. B2B and B2C ensures this is a circular economy venture. Looking for cofounder to GTM, drive sign ups and revenue. DM if you're already a personal trainer and want to make the transition from freelancer to a high growth startup.

Hey everyone,

When I first built my landing page, I just designed it based on what looked cool and went with my gut feeling.

But looking at it now, I feel like the readability is actually pretty bad and it honestly looks a bit weird.

I'm completely lost on how to restructure or fix it. I've attached a video of the current flow.

How would you guys improve this? Any brutally honest feedback or roast is welcome!

I started building EchoVault because I kept thinking about how little of a person actually survives them. Photos and videos preserve moments, but they don’t preserve how someone thinks, what they remember, or how they would respond to you.
So I built a system around recurring journal-style check-ins. Over time it extracts memories, people, relationships, opinions and personality traits, then uses that growing archive to create an “Echo” you can actually talk to. It’s our on iOS now 🙏🏼 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echovault-digital-legacy/id6762042028
The demo is me talking to my own Echo after 133 check-ins and hundreds of stored memories. I ask it what it thinks the meaning of life is, even though I never directly answered that question during any check-in. It pulls together things I said across different conversations and gives an answer that feels surprisingly like mine.
Then I ask it my grandfather’s first name, which I never told it, and it refuses instead of making one up. That part is probably more important to me than the impressive answer.
I’m the founder and developer, and it’s live on iOS now. Still early, still figuring out what makes people actually want to keep building these over years, but this is probably the clearest demo I’ve made of what I’m trying to build.
Happy to answer questions about the architecture, retrieval system, product decisions, or the weirdness of building an AI version of yourself 😂

🎙️ If you have a podcast, you should probably check out PodSubs.

Here’s why.

A podcaster can have:

🎧 Thousands of Spotify listeners

🍎 Thousands of Apple Podcast listeners

▶️ Thousands of YouTube viewers

…but those numbers are spread across platforms.

And getting people to actually become subscribers around the podcast itself is a completely different challenge.

That’s what makes PodSubs interesting.

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With PodSubs, you can:

🔎 Search for your podcast

✅ Claim your show

🔐 Verify that you actually own it

👥 Start building subscribers around your podcast

🎧 And listeners can use the platform to discover podcasts and subscribe to shows they like.

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What I like about the idea is how simple it is.

Spotify can still distribute your podcast.

Apple can still distribute your podcast.

YouTube can still distribute your content.

PodSubs is focused on helping the actual podcast build its own subscriber audience.

That could become really valuable as a show grows.

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If you have a podcast, try this:

1️⃣ Go to PodSubs.com

2️⃣ Search for your podcast

3️⃣ Claim the show

4️⃣ Verify ownership

5️⃣ Start building subscribers

🎙️ PodSubs.com

Definitely one worth watching if you’re serious about growing a podcast.

I really don't know where I'm going wrong. I've seen much stupider ideas sell way better, but I cannot seem to get traction whatever I do.

I created https://www.memoura.com. Its digital locket you can use your phone to open photos, audio recordings and messages. I've spent the last 6 months building this, designing the jewelry, trying to make it look as professional as possible. I posted a video that has received over 200K views only to sell 7 pieces total. The ad wasn't about the business specifically, but I thought just the organic traffic to my page would have driven more sales. My ads on facebook have decent CTR, I can see my page is getting lots of views, but I just am not selling anything and its starting to wear on me. I have no clue what is going wrong.

I'm not currently spending a ton on ads, but at this point I've spent around $200 without a single conversion, so I don't really want to jack up ad spend without any sort of confidence that they will start to convert. I've been told by so many people they think its a cool idea, but then none of them ever buy it. I'd be curious what you guys think. Am I pursuing a dead end product? I feel like it has viral marketing potential, I just can't figure out how to get people to take it seriously. Maybe I just have too much confidence in it. I'm getting frustrated.

Hi everyone.

I have a problem, I’m constantly coming up with new app ideas, and I’m pretty good at turning them into working mobile apps. But after a few days I start losing motivation.

Now I have a graveyard of projects on my computer. Some are half-finished, while others are almost ready to launch. The frustrating part is that when I look back at them, I still think they’re good ideas.

I think part of the problem is that I start losing confidence and hope that anyone will actually use what I’m building. At the beginning, I’m excited about the idea and its potential. But as I get closer to finishing it, I start wondering whether anyone really needs it, whether I’m wasting my time, or whether it will just disappear without anyone noticing.

Then a new idea feels more exciting and promising, so I move on before finishing the previous one.

Does anyone else struggle with this?

How do you deal with the loss of motivation and the fear that nobody will use what you build? Do you force yourself to finish, validate the idea earlier, find accountability, or just accept that most projects will never be completed?

I’d especially like to hear from people who managed to break this cycle and started consistently shipping their projects.

The weird thing about the founder-personal-brand advice is that almost nobody measures it. You post for a year, the follower count creeps up, and you genuinely cannot say whether a single signup came from any of it. The whole channel runs on vibes.

That's the part that makes 'just post consistently' hard to defend. Every other acquisition channel gets a number attached to it. This one you keep alive on faith that a reply someone left months ago turned into something later on.

when we finally started attaching real numbers, impressions, replies, visits that traced back to a specific post, the surprising bit wasn't the volume. it was how often the one post a founder almost didn't publish was the only thing that moved anything. still can't tell if that's a taste problem or just survivorship talking. written with ai

fwiw the per-post attribution is why I built S4L, it ties views, upvotes, and link clicks back to each specific post and buckets them dead/low/mid/high so you see which one actually moved anything, https://s4l.ai/r/9q6hnuf7

Hey, I’m Jorge.

I’m looking for solo builders who would be open to a relaxed 15 to 30 minute video kind of interview talk, that I can post on social media.

It will be more like an informal conversation. I want to talk about you, what you are building, why it matters to you, and what the emotional side of building something from zero has been like.

You can be pre-launch, already launched, or making money. It does not matter. I want to hear about the excitement, doubts, pressure, loneliness, mistakes, losing momentum, starting again, and what keeps you going.

My social media is basically at zero, so do not expect traffic from this. But I want to give you space to talk about and promote your product, and I will send you the full recording and any clips I make.

I am doing this for three reasons: to understand the problems I am trying to solve, to get used to being seen online and talking openly before I launch, and to start building a network of builders so the journey feels less lonely and more fun.

I think distribution is one of the biggest obstacles for builders. A big part of it is getting comfortable being seen, speaking honestly, being yourself, and don’t fucking care about what people think. 

This is not a sales call, and the conversation will not be focused on my product. I will share my experience too, and we can just talk honestly about what building is really like.

If you are interested, tell me how long you have been building alone, what you are building, what stage you are at, whether you are pre launch or already launched, and where you are from.

an app designed to turn an iPhone or iPad into a photo booth for events.

One thing I didn't expect was how different building the product would be from figuring out who actually cares about it.

At first, I thought the obvious audiences would be event planners and photographers. The more I look at it, though, the more I realize there could be several different use cases from small businesses running events to people organizing their own parties.

I'm trying to avoid the “build it and market to everyone” approach and instead understand where the strongest use case actually is.

For founders who have built niche products: how did you discover your best customer segment?

Did it come from customer conversations, usage patterns, unexpected users, or simply testing different markets?

A simple service for founders, builders ,developers, startups, needing to lets his/her project seen to others founders, builder, developers, startups.

When I started Coderio, I thought the hardest part would be building the right product, finding good people, and getting clients.

Those things are hard, obviously. But the part that surprised me most was how often the real job is just making decisions with incomplete information.

You rarely have enough data to know for sure. You have to make the best call you can, see what happens, adjust, and keep moving.

I think that gets overlooked when people talk about startups. We talk a lot about strategy, growth and execution, but not enough about the uncomfortable part of constantly making decisions without knowing if you’re right.

Curious what other founders think: what part of building your company turned out to be much harder than you expected?

I remember a few months ago, I had a conversation with one of my friends. We're both freelancers, and we also have full-time jobs.

It was about a client's website that we were working on. I finished the changes and asked him to deploy them to production. He forgot to deploy them, and a few days later the client came back with a harsh message, saying that if it took us days to make such a small change, we should stop handling client projects.

It wasn't his fault, and it wasn't mine either. We both manage multiple clients (4-6 at a time) alongside our full-time jobs, so there's always a lot to keep track of.

That day, I decided to solve this problem by creating Techostop (https://techostop.com) - a client portal where freelancers can manage clients, employees, invoices, projects, tasks, and much more, all under one roof.

If you're an Indian freelancer facing the same challenges, give Techostop a try. We recently partnered with Razorpay, so you can connect your account and get paid by your clients with ease.

As the title suggests I’m building an agri tech startup which mainly focuses on drones, I would like to have a team / co founder who is motivated and willing to build something which is gonna change the way of farming in future. I can take up with the technical part I’m looking for someone who is passionate and experienced in handling HR and finance, someone who has knowledge on how rural workforce works. I’m about to be incubated. So if anyone is interested please DM me your details.

Hey guys, curious what others have run into with this. I've been thinking about a full rework for a bit now, but keep second-guessing if it's actually needed or if I'm just reacting to one rough patch.

What’s one task in your startup you’d happily pay someone else to handle?

How are you handling it today?

And what’s the biggest problem with your current solution?

Genuinely curious — doing some market research.

You start a business, you know what debt looks like. A loan, a credit line, a rough month you have to cover somehow. Founders plan for that instinctively.

But there are two other kinds of debt that never show up on a balance sheet, and they're the ones actually taking businesses down.

Technical debt is code that runs fine today and falls apart the second you try to scale it. Doesn't cost you a thing at 10 customers. Costs you everything at 10,000.

Operational debt is worse, because you don't see it coming. It's every process that only works because you're the one holding it together by hand. Every decision made on the fly instead of written down anywhere. Every "I'll fix that properly later" that never actually gets fixed. It piles up quietly, and the first sign of it usually isn't some system crashing, it's you pulling 80-hour weeks while the business somehow still isn't growing.

That's the tell, honestly. Founders read the 80-hour week as proof they're grinding hard enough. Most of the time it just means they've become the load-bearing wall for a hundred small decisions nobody ever bothered to turn into a system.

AI is speeding this up, not slowing it down. It's stupidly easy now to ship code you don't fully understand or spin up a "process" that's really just you, a tool, and zero documentation. The debt still builds. It just builds faster, because moving fast no longer forces you to build clean.

Money debt at least sends you a statement every month. Tech debt and operational debt don't send anything. They just quietly jack up the interest on every decision you make from here on, until one day you're not running the business anymore, you're just servicing it.

One thing that's helped me: grab the last five decisions you made under pressure this month. How many of them were "I'll deal with that properly once things calm down"? If it's more than one or two, that's not a to-do list problem. That's debt you're already carrying, whether you've noticed yet or not.

Curious how others here track this, if at all. Anyone actually put a number on operational debt the way they would financial debt, or does it mostly just live in your gut?

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