Short answer: Jordan Metzner says Apple's podcast lists are publicly available through a robust URL schema, unlike Spotify's, and Replit grabbed and sourced the data. He wanted to send 50 to 100 emails and says anyone could build it in a few hours.
Watch this answer from Episode 3 (starts at 8:51) · Episode 3 notes and transcript
From Episode 3: Auto-Marketing for Podcasts? Let’s Build It!, starting at 8:51.
Sam Nadler [8:51]: And, you know what? I didn't catch. So you caught this by being pitched a service to do what exactly?
Jordan Metzner [9:01]: The service was saying like, hey. You can track your ranking of your podcasts.
Sam Nadler [9:07]: Just pay $10 and you can track your ranking. And you're like, how did they get my email? And then you figured it out.
Jordan Metzner [9:12]: I was just like, yeah. How did they get my email? We're just a brand new podcast. Like, obviously, scraping podcast lists. But then I was like, well, that's probably, like, publicly readily available information is the podcast lists. And, the Spotify lists are not, like, readily available, but the Apple ones are. And Apple has, like, a pretty robust URL schema, so you can, like, I guess, lack of a better term, like, download the list of, podcasts by your subject matter category and, get the URL and a bunch of info about them. Yeah, obviously, we could build, a v two of this where we have a little bit about each podcast and maybe a link to the podcast. And, we could probably integrate this into a CRM and get some feedback loop and other things like it. But, from a high level, I just wanted to crank out, like, 50 to, a 100 emails to podcast operators, to podcast creators, and just tell them about our podcast.
Jordan Metzner [10:06]: And See where it takes us. Yeah. Hopefully, just, one or two people would say, like, oh, that's really cool. I like it. I'll tell my viewers about it. And, just a few of those could probably go a really long way. This one's called dude dudes doing business. You know? So
Sam Nadler [10:21]: Sounds like us.
Jordan Metzner [10:22]: I mean, sounds like us, except the 27 ranked, podcast and business podcasts. So, I used Replit to build this. I didn't actually have to go script the data myself. Like, I was able to find it, and then, Replit was able to, like, grab that data and source it for me. As you see here, know, I have a button to check for new podcasts. I can check for updates of the rankings. And then I have my templates here. And then I have some fake pages kind of as that I just built out in case, like, I need to add some additional features. And then I have this one little feature here, which is to see, when built this week is in the top 1,000. Unfortunately, we are
Sam Nadler [11:04]: We're not
Jordan Metzner [11:04]: Married yet. You're not in the top 1,000. Keep growing, it says. So anytime I want to, I can just refresh the rankings or check for new podcasts, refresh the rankings, then see if we made it yet this week. So anyway, yeah, that's a little bit on the podcast CRM tool. I think, we'll definitely use it ourselves, and I think anyone can build this in, yeah, probably just a few hours.
Sam Nadler [11:28]: We'll have to celebrate when we cross over the top 1,000 milestone.
Jordan Metzner [11:33]: Okay. Cool. Sounds good. We can come back to this clip.
Sam Nadler [11:36]: Come back to this clip. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
