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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Bootstrapping a Modern Podcast Hosting Platform
Jon Buda discusses bootstrapping Transistor.fm, a modern podcast hosting platform, drawing on his experience building a Spotify-like music platform and working at Cards Against Humanity. The episode covers his journey as a Ruby on Rails developer, processing audio files at scale, and growing a SaaS product from a single popular podcast into a full hosting solution.
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Summary
Jon Buda discusses bootstrapping Transistor.fm, a modern podcast hosting platform, drawing on his experience building a Spotify-like music platform and working at Cards Against Humanity. The episode covers his journey as a Ruby on Rails developer, processing audio files at scale, and growing a SaaS product from a single popular podcast into a full hosting solution.
Tags
podcast-hosting · bootstrapping · ruby-on-rails · saas · transistor-fm · startup · audio-processing
Key entities
Jon Buda (person, 0.99) · Transistor.fm (organization, 0.98) · Cards Against Humanity (organization, 0.95) · Ruby on Rails (technology, 0.93) · Code Story (organization, 0.9) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.85) · Hackbright Academy (organization, 0.8) · Vue.js (technology, 0.75) · Spotify (organization, 0.8) · Basecamp (organization, 0.7) · XOXO Festival (event, 0.7) · Caddy Server (technology, 0.7)
Classification
transcript · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 10 Aug 2026