I kept waiting for perfect. This is what I shipped instead.

My creator story

Five years ago, I registered thepodosphere.com.

It was a term I’d used—and heard—among my podcast peeps. It felt right. A word that captured the energy of this industry. A portmanteau of podcasting and atmosphere, if you will.

At the time, I was in awe of the sheer number of tools and services being built to support podcasters. There were a few decent directories out there, but I kept thinking:

What if I built the galaxy’s most comprehensive collection of companies supporting podcasters—big and small?

How hard could that be? 😉

That first year, I was accepted into On Deck’s inaugural No Code cohort, where I built my first MVP (Minimum Viable Product for my non-entrepreneurial friends). I stitched together an Airtable and connected it to a Webflow front end.

It worked.
Success!

Little did I know what was coming.

I shared it with a few friends, gathered feedback, and about a year later found a great technical partner. Together, we ported the site over to Bubble and got the basic functionality live.

And then… not much progress.

Like many side projects, it never quite became the priority it needed to be. We gave it our best, but momentum stalled. Eventually, we parted ways amicably, and I took the site back into my own hands.

Which meant… living with Bubble. And finding help.

A handful of not-so-cheap Fiverr developer sessions later, I was inching closer to what I’d envisioned—but it was slow going.

Then, in early 2025, the vibe-coding wave hit.

“You can prompt an entire website into existence?!”

I dove head-first into tools like Lovable and Bolt and was blown away. Beautiful sites. Minutes, not months.

Uh-mazing.

Until it wasn’t.

Digging into the forums, I learned what many others had discovered: pretty on the surface, but underneath… spaghetti code.

I was devastated.
So close.

Then came a moment of pure kismet.

The Every.to newsletter announced a Zoom call about a new tool: Claude Code.

You may already know Anthropic’s Claude, but what surprised me was Claude Code—a tool that runs directly in your Mac Terminal (think DOS prompt for Mac; basically the engine room of your computer).

Suddenly, I could take the vibe-coded spaghetti and rebuild it properly. Same look and feel—but with structure, discipline, and real software fundamentals.

The early weeks were bananas.

I was coding at the speed of thought.

For years, I’d been handcuffed by my inability to translate UX/UI ideas from my head into something a developer could fully realize. It was always close… but never quite it.

Now it was.

As progress accelerated, I felt confident enough to relaunch the site in beta and share it with friends at Podcast Movement, where I received invaluable feedback.

But the most meaningful moment came during the Podosphere 2.0 meet-and-greet, led by Justin Jackson of Transistor.fm.

Tragically, it was also the last time those of us in the room would share time with podcast OG Todd Cochrane, who passed away just days later. RIP Todd.

Justin offered thoughtful feedback and, most memorably, suggested I explore Agent OS, created by Brian Casel.

I’ll spare the deeper technical details, but in short: it gave me spec-driven guardrails—structure for navigating highly productive but sometimes meandering AI-assisted coding sessions.

That was the final piece.

A second set of eyes.
Validation.
And a mirror for my blind spots.

So… is the site ready for prime time?

Honestly? No.

But that’s the curse of every creator—deciding when something is ready to be seen, warts and all. I learned this years ago in electronic music production:

It will never be “done.”

And so, friends, I present version 5(?) of The Podosphere. The galaxy’s most comprehensive directory of tools and services for the podcast industry.

Huge thanks to Magellan and Sounds Profitable for guidance around category structure. I hope I’ve done the Podscape justice.

Take a look. Feedback and suggestions are more than welcome.

And if you’d like to increase visibility for your company—as a Featured company (top placement in your category) or a Partner (front page + all company pages), let’s talk.

Since 2014, I’ve met so many inspiring people in this industry. I’m deeply grateful to the podcasters, and the entire podcast support ecosystem that make our work, and our lives, so much easier.

Enter here: https://www.thepodosphere.com/

With gratitude,

Harry