Since the very beginning, Pinecast’s application servers have been hosted on Heroku. The main application database, the Django application that serves web requests, cron jobs, the CI pipeline, and the staging environment have all been built exclusively on Heroku infrastructure. Heroku has never been perfect. Every year or so, I…

Back in 2015, I built Pinecast out of necessity: the podcast host my buddy was using was going out of business. Looking at the options, I was dissatisfied with every option out there, so I decided to build my own. …

This past week, to satisfy my urge to build something new, I’ve started putting together a project which has a real-time chat component, which means websockets. In a server-side JavaScript project, this is not something I’d think twice about: setting up a project with ws or another similar library is…

The Pinecast Episode Renumbering tool is a fairly recent feature that podcasters have at their disposal. It allows podcasters to update their episode titles in bulk to account for Apple’s 2019 guidelines. What does it do? Apple’s guidelines essentially boil down to a couple things: Start using the season and episode number tags in…

For the first time since Pinecast launched, we’re increasing our prices. I’d like to take a minute to explain the change and how it will affect accounts. TL;DR: Our Starter plan will go from $5/mo to $10/mo on Feb 29 for new subscriptions only. Existing customers will be unaffected, unless…

A few months ago, someone wrote in to Pinecast support asking about whether they could host their podcast. The nature of the podcast was controversial, and so they were inquiring whether it would be removed from Pinecast for violating policies. Specifically, they asked the following: Is there ANYTHING I could…

Reddit user /u/StargatePioneer, a host of the Better Podcasting, has fifteen-points of criteria for choosing a podcast hosting service. You can check out the Better Podcasting episode that outlines the criteria on their website. …

A couple months ago, we got a tweet from a user: Well, Mr. Golden, we’ve got good news for you. Today, Pinecast users can create social audiograms for their episodes through Headliner. If you click on any episode in your podcast dashboard, you’ll have the option to create a…

We get a lot of questions about our analytics at Pinecast. Many of these questions are very fair: Pinecast analytics don't work very much like the analytics for other podcast hosts, nor do they work like most analytics features in other non-podcasting applications. …