William Lopez-Cordero
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vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week. to put that in perspective: the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold. the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18+ months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now. no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series. still processing this one honestly.
New media runs on speed. @pmarca on the OODA loop: "Speed wins." "If you can have a sustainably faster OODA loop processing cycle than the next guy... then if you think about what happens — let's say it takes an hour to figure something out." "It takes the other guy two hours to figure something out. Think about what happens is: you start out on even playing field. You both start your decision making cycles." "You make your decision within an hour. The other guy is still say, is inside his own OODA loop when you make your decision, right?" "He's only halfway through his process, he now has to start his process over, right — because you've changed the landscape. You've changed the parameters of what's going on. So he now has to go back and re-serve and reorient and start over." Observe, orient, decide, action.
just dropped War Desk: a post partisan, data-driven approach to documenting the escalating conflicts between the US, Iran, and the middle east at large. to do this, we essentially built a new "truth machine" to fact check sources from multiple angles and provide a non-biased lens into a highly politically fueled conversation. this was significantly harder to produce than The Epstein Files. we had to build our own internal equivalent of "community notes" on steroids just to process the raw intelligence without the spin. it’s an ongoing investigation, and you can start listening right now.
vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week. to put that in perspective: the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold. the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18+ months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now. no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series. still processing this one honestly.
vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week. to put that in perspective: the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold. the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18+ months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now. no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series. still processing this one honestly.
just dropped War Desk: a post partisan, data-driven approach to documenting the escalating conflicts between the US, Iran, and the middle east at large. to do this, we essentially built a new "truth machine" to fact check sources from multiple angles and provide a non-biased lens into a highly politically fueled conversation. this was significantly harder to produce than The Epstein Files. we had to build our own internal equivalent of "community notes" on steroids just to process the raw intelligence without the spin. it’s an ongoing investigation, and you can start listening right now.
Everybody I know using AI is working more hours not less.
vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week. to put that in perspective: the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold. the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18+ months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now. no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series. still processing this one honestly.
For @FastCompany I spoke to @levychain about his entirely AI-generated podcast, the Epstein Files, and why he thinks it has captured the public's attention - and what it means for the future of media fastcompany.com/91497873/epste…
