In the most-recent Podcaster Community campfire we got to talking about what tools and services are we currently paying for. So I thought today I’d put up a simple post to ask just that. It’s one thing to talk about what we prefer, it’s another for us to have voted with our dollars — I want to know what you feel is really worthwhile to your podcasting process.
Tell me: What services or tools you are currently paying for?
Me?
Hindenburg Pro
Zencastr (for recording podcasts)
Zoom (for everything except recording podcasts)
Vimeo (for hosting streaming video for the Podcaster Community)
Discourse (for the Podcaster Community forum)
Calendly (for scheduling, integrated with all the complexity of my personal calendar)
Otter.ai (for all the various audio I need to transcribe— pod recordings via Zencastr come with a transcript)
Adobe Creative Cloud (not sure I’d recommend if I weren’t on a discounted price plan)
Suno (AI music creator)
Chat GPT (Great for brainstorming)
Google Gemini AI pro/Notebook LM Pro (or whatever it’s called - For research. I can upload an entire book (actually about 500 books) to it and then have a conversation with the book!)
Just got a free trial of Adobe Podcast - loving it so far, and thinking about purchasing an annual subscription
Was paying for Riverside, but now just using the free plan
I’m sure there are other tools and software I’m using too. I didn’t realize until this exercise how much I’m paying for lol
@craigconstantine I’ve been considering a subscription to Podmatch. How has it been for you?
Yeah, I’m on the $6/month plan, which is the level that feeds guests towards me. I get an endless stream of possible podcast guests for Podtalk. That’s both good (yeah guests to consider) and bad (“endless stream” can lead to overwhelm.)
To be honest, I never go with the guests that the PodMatch platform is pairing me with. (For those not familiar: those are guests who, if I had them on the show, PodMatch would pay me once the show is published.) I find there’s just too much “oh OH! pick me! PICK ME!!” in those guests. I totally ignore that feature of podmatch.
Instead, I simply watch my messaging inbox. There I get a slow trickle of people who are putting in the effort to reach out to me. (Instead of the people who simply put in $30/mon to have podmatch “connect” them to me in an infinite stream.)
Am I crazy? certainly. But this is what’s working for me.
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PS: which makes me think I should email Alex (the creator of Podmatch) and tell him all that… and ask for a “turn off automatching feature” checkbox . . .
