readable.fm 🎙️

Turn your Podcast episodes into a premium reading experience. Built in public by @missagla and @cblavier

[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

After a full month of closed beta, @missagla and I have just made https://t.co/V5uyvWf1RT open to the public!

We fixed a lot of quirks 🛠️, improved our pricing model 💰 and shipped a new landing page ✨

Feel free to try, RT, and give us feedback 🤗

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

I'm excited to share with you what the landing page of @readable will look like later this week! ✨

About 4 days of work on this page: @missagla in Figma and me in VSCode :) 👫

This is a huge milestone as readable will then be open to the public! 🌍

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

I asked ChatGPT to improve our landing copywriting, with a "catchy tone"! 🤖

I can tell you that with this shiny and top-notch tool, we got you covered! (we also have your back!) 🔥 Let's take it to the next level 🚀

Bingo-bullshit is only a prompt away 🫠
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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

I'm working on event tracking on @readablefm today.

I already did it on two projects before, so I developed some reflexes. 💪

Here is how I do it:

1. No client-side tracking. This is the easy way, but not reliable as a lot of browsers disable 3rd party libraries

Next in 🧵 👇

[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Here is the result of my text-to-speech-to-text experiment! 🤖

https://t.co/eSKPzI7s7k

I wrote a fictive conversation, generated audio to produce a podcast episode, and then ran it through readable 😀

We will use it as a demo on our new landing page

[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Just improved the mobile experience of @readablefm by bringing support for native iOS lock screen artwork and controls ⏯️

(while recording and unlocking my phone, I've almost been caught by the FaceID but I think I handled it gracefully 😅)

/cc @reworkpodcast

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

We just shipped our new widget on @readablefm 🚀
Next step: allow our users to customize the website's colors 🎨

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Who is building in public with Elixir? 🧪

I already know a few names such as @benvp_ @marcelfahle or @codestirring

But I'd love to discover more! 👀
Please reply with new accounts to follow :)

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

I'm writing documentation to help @readablefm users embed our widget in their websites.

I already wrote guides for WordPress and Ghost.
What do you think would be the next?

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Documenting how to integrate @readablefm's widget is more tedious than expected!

But we don't want to compromise on SEO, so it's a bit more complex than just dropping a Youtube iframe.

Next step: documenting setup in a WordPress site

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

After 2 weeks of private beta, we had many feedbacks on @readablefm 🙏
- UX issues
- copywriting issues
- current pricing model is bad

We're fixing everything, shipping a new widget to embed readable on your site.

Public launch expected in a couple of weeks 🚀

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Some call it Karma

Some others call it "maximizing opportunity surface" (👋 @arvidkahl )

This afternoon I was invited by a local real estate agency to record a 10mn testimonial 💬

The place was a podcast agency 😁

I demoed @readablefm and their jaw dropped 🔥

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

We just shipped @readablefm responsive UI ✨

It was a bit of work, but fortunately, we have our back covered by @tailwindcss

I hope you'll appreciate our new minified audio player ⏯️ 😀

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

I'm looking for a marketing (email-based) automation tool. 🤖

I basically want a REST API to post my user's events, and a UI to design HTML emails and build workflows to send emails based on my user's activity.

Any suggestion? 🙏

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

This weekend, we'll be iterating on the mobile version of readable

For now, we focus our efforts on the public podcast pages. The responsive back-office can wait :)

I'm always amazed by how TailwindCSS makes it easy to turn a website into a responsive one ✨

[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Just sent a very small batch of invitations to our private beta 🥳
Exciting times coming! 🔥

(drop me a DM if you want to be part of the beta!)

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Just added @cannyHQ integration to our product.

Full setup, including a custom changelog button + single-sign-on takes about 30mn to set up.

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Feeling better and started coding again 💪

I just took a spin on our HTML email templates. 💌

Once again I used MJML which is a wonderful responsive email framework available in a lot of languages.

https://t.co/lvUom6cFzl

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

First sale 🎉 🥳

(I know this is test mode and that I'm my own customer, but can I still enjoy the confetti?)

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[Christian Blavier 🎙️ @cblavier]

Just coded the account dropdown menu.
One step closer to implementing subscription.

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