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The Program, my fiction podcast launched on HN, 5 years and 1M downloads later

by Beeline Reader The world survived for another year, and The Program audio series with it. This has been the 5th straight year of attaining this achievement (well, a few more in the case of the world), so this edition of our traditional annual report is even beefier than the previous ones.

Running sales promotions on Shopify as part of my day job, I can tell you these design choices are deeply flawed, as flexibility to adjust dates and (re)create promos ad hoc is a critical component of marketing. To make matters worse, Patreon’s customer service had given me wrong information when I asked them about this in advance, and were unable or unwilling to manually adjust the campaign for me afterwards, severely disrupting my biggest marketing drive of the year. It is literally the stance of a mafia don: “Nice business you’ve got there… It would be a shame if something happened to it...” But that's the result of regulators being asleep at the wheel and allowing monopolists to abuse their market position unimpeded.

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