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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave@podcastindex.social I was speaking to a startup today who wants to get kids to scan a QR code and tell the teacher how they are feeling using pictures of fuzzy monsters... really cool idea, but we are trying to get kids off phones I thought and primary school kids really.. But they made their MVP with Claude and I asked them how they HASH the kids data and they said that don't so all the data just their in superbase for the taking - oh and their admin dashboard not password protected.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave@podcastindex.social the scary part is I have left it running and it’s working, I can at anytime login and see it’s logs it has about 10 skills I manually coded for it and it’s using a few known MCP controllers like playwright

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave@podcastindex.social I did it, and made a LinkedIn post about it. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/russellharrower_solofounder-aiagents-songrotate-activity-7455510242127159296-fp57?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAMORhQByUYhYhbJAHb8j6EgmuMq5MXQy3k&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link

Scaling Radio Tracking Without a Massive Payroll | Russell Harrower posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Stop paying for data entry… I did. Last week I launched AIRTrack, but today I want to show you how a solo founder actually scales a global tracking system without a massive payroll. The biggest hurdle in radio tracking isn’t the data—it’s the onboarding. Finding and verifying radio streams across the globe is a nightmare of geoblocking and broken links. If I did this manually, it would take 10 to 60 minutes per station. As a solo founder, that isn

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

So making an AI agent - let’s see how this goes.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 10mo ago

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@benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social remember hosting companies are the ones that have to put it in their RSS feed. And we have seen how slow they are to do things that might trigger lower downloads or streams for their customers.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 10mo ago

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@benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social yes death to the AI. But really this just won’t work. But I love the concept. Maybe an ai bot that scans the episode and works out if it was ai and then podpings this episode is AI. Make it a 3rd party not-for-profit that hosting providers have to support to be psp verified.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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So basically unless you let go of the stream ffmpeg-next which is the package we use just keeps it all in memory until you drop it. That seems like a really bad way of doing audio streaming if you’re a listener.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@sushee nothing wrong with PHP that’s how I started. But now i find it faster to use NextJS or ExpressJS.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

Sometimes you have to start again.

My music fingerprint worked but database was slow.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

What a week it’s been, we rolled out AIRTrack as part of SongRotate and it’s been amazing seeing our music fingerprint system work flawlessly.

We currently are tracking over 500+ radio stations in Australia and the United States.

With another 400+ stations to be added over the next week.

Our goal 2,000 stations by June.

Best of all unlike other platforms that charge extra or make you pay per track. SongRotate includes AIRTrack for free! When you launch your music campaign with us.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 4mo ago

Just a few pics from dinner tonight in Orange County.

Yum

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 8mo ago

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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu this is stupid. Adults have enough stress in their lives. If scrolling infinitely allows them to enjoy their day I say go for it.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

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@marcoarment@mastodon.social 😂

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 10mo ago

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@benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social @Castopod@podlibre.social approved by who? Like the spec is not a standard… and this tag doesn’t solve users being honest. Think about that lady who posts 3000 ai podcasts each week (I think that was the number @james@bne.social would know). Do you really think it would be in her best interest to declare that show is made with ai. No because then her ad revenue would decrease and bam what’s the point of pumping out all those episodes? Sure there might be a few honest ppl.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave@podcastindex.social yeah it’s amazing when it works. But it’s only part of our system. It does the heavy lifting of browsing the web. But all the geoblocks and proxy plus the searching is all our secret 🤫

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave@podcastindex.social @chrislw@podcastindex.social this issue isn’t can you run a LLM on your machine, it’s can the LLM remember conversation and code from 6 months ago. This is where neural network databases come in handy, but today we don’t really have that. What we have is databases that can store history but you have to have your reasoner script tell and supply the LLM with the information each time. It’s like a pre-think instead of the LLM looking automatically at the stored data overtime. It’s really difficult atm.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social interesting idea, but I don't want AI spam phoning me 😂 Nor do I want other hosting companies messaging my creators - thats why we remove email details from RSS.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social yeah, but could we not utilise the txt tag for this - genuine question as that is what that tag was designed to be the be all and end all tag.

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Russell Harrower 🎙️ @russell@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social I get the logic for sure. But I am looking only at the adoption side of it, know I think your tag is well thought through and for those who want to its a good tag, but we also have the socialInteract tag too - could it not go in there as a link? sorry just suggestions to see if we really need a new tag. Know I think its a good idea... Just asking those you know annoying dev questions.😀

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