The original Cranky Geek, John C Dvorak has died and I am sad. I enjoyed listening to his hot takes on tech for the past decades and helped me realize everyone is a shill and everything is a scam in tech.Now what will I look forward to on Thursdays and Sundays?
>>109347995Rip In Piss, in the morning.
>>109348017kys shill
>>109347995vax status?
>>109348090He was very anti vax
Literally who?
>>109348164If you don't know who he is why are you even on /g/?
>>109348164Forgot the name of the band, but his uncle was a keyboarder, almost a century ago
>>109348164apparently he was a writer for some technology magazines decades ago and did some other tech journalism stuff.i've also never heard of him, maybe he's more well-known in america
>>109348164He invented a keyboard that nobody uses.
>>109348099interesting... sounds like a cool guy
>>109348358That was his uncle. He was one of the first tech trolls. He probably visited /g/ every now and then. Damn it John, why couldn't you have given us four more years.
>>109347995>everyone is a shill and everything is a scamwhat video exactly?
>>109347995at least he made it to 80.
>>109348453He said it all the time on No Agenda, he often mocked the TWiT panel the corporate shills they are.Damn, I didn't know Sunday's show would have been his last show. John was like the tech dad I always wanted.
>>109348164Yikes, iPad kid...
Okay. That is sad. Im genuinely hoping Adam Curry is coping. They did a pidcast on July 19. Dvorak died on July 20.
ITM John. And Fuck that fat fuck Leo over at twit.Thoughts to Adam who is now dealing with the utter joy of becoming a Grandfather combined with the death of a close friend and colleague.
>>109348569>you're an ipad kid if you don't know about my favourite podcasterok bro
>>109348942>And Fuck that fat fuck Leo over at twit.It's crazy what a massive piece of shit he became.
>>109349141Glad you agree
>>109349186NGL I had to check if twit was still active before I made the comment. Seems they abandoned the rented studios they spent ~$100k renovating and now everyone remotes in. Ironic really considering Leo was so anti having presenters remote host that he canned Tom.
>>109347995You could commune with his ghost through spiritism and the occult.
>>109349381They lost the lease because Leo's new wife Lisa who is an accountant forgot to renew it lol
>>109350156This is one of those things that sounds so stupid that it's gotta be bullcrap - then you realize it's 100% possible given some of the decisions she made in the past.
>>109348164He invented the mouse you fucking retard
Adam is currently live with No Agenda episode 1888 which is a tribute episode featuring Johns family and friends.
rip legend
>>109352172https://noagenda.stream/
>>109352196Terrible boomerslop conservacuck podcast. Most interesting thing I remember was Dvorak’s surprisingly based take on Kirk, and that faggot curry melting down about it live on air.
>>109348017Disgusting nigger behavior>>109347995Rest in peace.
>>109349141he's not famous for the podcast, he's mostly known for being a popular columnist at PC Magazine in the 80s back when tech was fun. so yeah a lot of boomer techies love him but zillenials either don't know him or only know him for running a chud podcast
>>109352172>>109352196>>109352381the podcast is dead, curry is ok but really needs JCD to balance him out. listened to a couple of the eps with john's wife filling in while he got heart surgery and it was complete dogshit. also kinda poor taste that their newsletter announcement had so much donation begging. john was 80 and i'm sure did well for himself, his kids are all adults with jobs, this isn't some case where the family is going to be destitute and desperately needs financial support. that whole thing has always annoyed me about no agenda, for how much they talk about the show being "ad-free", like a third of every episode is centered on donations and they bitch and moan every week about donations being low. RIP john
>>109354015The newsletter always had a lot of donation nagging but I appreciated them being able to say what they wanted without having to be advertiser friendly or censored by some company. I think coming from their traditional media backgrounds they weren't able to come up with a better model. I've always enjoyed Dvorak and didn't think I would enjoy Curry but he grew on me. I doubt I would have listened if it was a solo from either so I hope they figure it out.
>>109354015>the podcast is dead, curry is ok but really needs JCD to balance him out.Yeah, Adam being a recent born again Christian will probably make him pretty insufferable if he doesnt have someone to reign him in. looking at the twit podcasts they even honor him on windows weekly. maybe leo is a little more remorseful than i expected considering the public fight they had
>>109347995I'm too young to know about him from his journalism years but I was listening to his podcast. F
>>109356034If you listen to the WW podcast Leo is said because he is an old man now and his mom died 2 weeks ago.
>>109347995F
>>109352193This man has trolled billionaires harder than any of us have ever trolled each other.
I'm listening to the No Agenda 1888 episode is it is very sweet how his family has the same laugh as John.John won at life, he had a beautiful loving wife, wonderful kids and touched the lives of a lot of people. I aspire to be like John.
>>109354015I haven't had the chance to listen to the latest episode but I'd imagine once the 1 / 2 special tribute episodes are in the can Curry will try and continue the podcast with Mimi and a rotating list of guest hosts.But realistically the podcast died Monday with John.
>>109356637Facts. I'm going to be a bigger cunt than usual online over the next few days just to honor his memory.
>>109357151>6hrs 6 min pod.Holy fuck the donation segment must be almost as long as a usual episode.
>>109357373750 donations with notes!
>>109348164some news/politics pod caster, he was a technology journalist decades ago so that makes it technology i guess
>>109357463Dvorak was the original tech troll.
It's a fucking God damn disgrace his passing hasn't garnered more attention.
>>109352193you now remember apple stole from other companies from the beginner
>>109359218No black bar on hackernews was shameful
>>109359218maybe he's just not as important as you thought he was
>>109359730maybe you should kill yourself
>>109347995HN wouldn't give him the black bar.
>>109349186>>109349381>>109350156>>109351495I remember Leo was an ubercoomer, who would regularly accidentally "leak" his porn habits (including subscriptions), accidentally showed dick(his)/vag(wife) pics, and also notes he dictated of>how to install a sex swingimagine this guy being your dad and all of this being public information.
>>109360926>and also notes he dictated of how to install a sex swingi'm drunk as well so i'll excuse that, but what?
>>109359951also not that important
>>109348164it's the computer keyboard guy
>>109357463Technology journalists back then are a lot different from today. He worked as a chemist for an oil company, then did wine reviews for Bon Apetit I think. Started a software company in the late 70s and then started writing about computers in the 80s and 90s at Infoworld and PC Magazine when they would have hundreds of pages and cover hundreds of different companies and technologies. The TV version was Computer Chronicles. His appearance on the show with the PS/2 was pretty funny. Every month there was always something new and interesting in the computing landscape unlike now where a dozen companies dominate the news cycle. But back then it was so much more fun. I remember he covered some tinkerer in Taiwan who had overclocked a 286 so that it was a lot faster than a 386 for instance. Desktop publishing was new, photo editing was new, digital photography was new, printers, scanners, spreadsheets, 3d graphics, sound cards, monitors, modems, and tons of zany peripherals. Encarta, browsers, CD-ROMS, early web. You could look at the back of these magazines and there would be all kinds of mom and pop shops and 900 lines lol. He was around when the mouse was introduced and famously thought it was shit. In the 2000s he had his own show "Silicon Spin" and "Cranky Geeks" until 2010. He was a guest on This Week in Tech where he would sometimes take the host's phone and change the language to Chinese. He was the 10th most followed Twitter user back when it started and was a co-host on his boomer chud podcast with the inventor of podcasts. He kept his old Lexus because he didn't like all the computerization in later cars and also kept his smartphone off in a drawer because he didn't want to be tracked. Zoomillenial tech journalists would never.
Was pretty based until he started shilling for Israel and Trump.
John said he was 74 years old but they said that he died at 80 years old. 6 year discrepancy.
>>109361384>Technology journalists back then are a lot different from todayYou could argue journalists in general were different back then.But yeah, he was something of a renaissance man.>Computer ChroniclesHe appeared on that show with Jared Taylor, whose niche back then was spreadsheet programs instead of hwite nationalism
6 hours and 6 minutes for episode 1888
PIN THIS, MODS!!!>80 year old looks like 74.
>>109361384>Slop has set in.This was in 1990. What did he think about today's tech?
>>109361384wow, the bloat in 1990s, hehe.. little changed>>109361445but Trump is based and Israel is the closest ally.
>>109361793>but Trump is based and Israel is the closest ally.Before the Gaza war, JCD and Adam would always call themselves antiwar. Now they're quick to say that war is America's #1 export. I wonder if they were threatened. Then John got the heart attack, interestingly enough. Maybe he started to protest.
>>109361810depends on a war, war is not the same as the proverb says (who imprinted that proverb btw?). what democrat did in Afghanistan wasnt about war, it was a war cosplay, a waste, same as USAID was mostly money laundering schemes of corrupt politicians (from the democrat party). current administration moves steady, closing the decades of unfinished goals. finally the policeman woke up from the drunken coma
>>109361670Yeah journalists back then, for all the awfulness that mainstream media could bring, were at least competently trained. Enthusiasts like Tom's Hardware and Anandtech aped that style even if they could never quite pull it off but now tech sites don't even do that. PC Magazine is absolute shit now and is a temu version of Wirecutter which is itself a stupid affiliate listicle review site run by clueless vibe writers.As for Jared Taylor who was big into tech and become an IQ-race guy, I can't blame him.>>109361744He'd been in the game long enough and actually had a lot of insider connections to notice that every startup promised to be a game-changer but most of them fizzled so his default reaction to any new technology after a while was usually "IT'S A SCAM". When the cloud was a big thing he thought it was just a rehash of the 90s thin-client computing model and would fail in the same way. At least he wanted it to. When AI came around it reminded him of the failed "expert systems" that were supposed to revolutionize everything in the 80s. When AI got better, he used it to make celebrities say stupid shit and he thought it was hilarious because he's an eternal boomer. Other than the older Lexus and keeping his cellphone off (he even used a prepaid plan), I think he stuck with Windows 10 on his main machine although he eventually became a fan of Linux. For all his hate of Apple I think the product he hated the most was the Chromebook. He hated software as a service, subscription models, and any software especially on a portable machine that required the internet. His takes on tech are all over the place but I think his main gripe was that tech journalism has basically become just fads and shilling.
>>109361683I'm only 1.5 hours in. What a slog!
>>109347995THAT'S what he looked like? From the sound of his voice I always pictured him as looking like Larry King. The man sounds like he ate cigarettes for breakfast.
>>109362471that's an older photo, he was 80 when he passed and he looked and sounded like it. His speech held up pretty well into his 70s. Still kinda shocking given he sounded fine on Sunday. RIP to the og cranky geek
>>109361445>>109361810im glad these fucking boomers are finally croaking out on the way to hell.
>>109362740Another boomer who had no legacy, no apprentice or successor to pass his trade onto. Gripping every last iota of power and influence to the hour of his grave. Good riddance.
>>109362740if it was a problem for the "world", there will be already boots on the ground of those nations who need it.
>>109361810>JCD and Adam would always call themselves antiwar. >Now they're quick to say that war is America's #1 export.Those aren't mutually exclusive. I'm antiwar but also notice that the US likes to chuck bombs people at home get antsy and I think Adam goes further and says the US just likes war period. As for Gaza, their discussion was "This seems like an inside job to keep Netanyahu in power because how could the IDF and Mossad miss this. We can't get any reliable information from there about how things are going because the news is all propaganda. The US wasted a ton of money on that humanitarian bridge. These pro-Gaza protests are probably inorganic. Jews are scared. Those Gaza tunnels seem fake. The media reporting is doing the classic explosions in the background coverage. Biden's government wants peace but never asked for a ceasefire so they're a bunch of hypocrites. Kushner and his Arab buddies are probably going to try to make money off reconstruction. Trump doesn't want to put troops in and I agree but they have no plan just like Iraq and Afghanistan. Stop asking us to take sides."JCD absolutely hated the modern democrat party and its shift toward the democratic-socialist bloc. He used to be one though.
I always thought the Dvorak keyboard was named for him.
>>109362815Not true at all. Leo Laporte always said John helped him get his foot in the door and helped him a lot in the early days. Leo himself also helped a lot of younger guys get their break in tech tv with The Call for Help show. Like Kevin Rose and Amber MacArthur.
Everyone in this video is dead now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoAH1aHmwR0&t=651s
>>109363062His uncle invented the Dvorak keyboard.
>>109364381Ack!
>>109364381And that's a good thing!>some mystery meat zillennial journalist, probably
>>109361007Also kill yourself.
>>109362815Projecting your own bitter end are we now?
>>109347995didn't even know this guy had a podcast or what else he had done in his life except for that keyboard layout he came up with.still never got around to learning dvorak typing. i'm 42. is it too late?
>>109365679> except for that keyboard layout he came up withOh, that was his uncle:>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak>He is a nephew of sociologist August Dvorak, creator of the Dvorak keyboard>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dvorak> August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 9, 1975)[1][2] was an American educational psychologist and professor of education[3] at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.[4] He and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout.
John deeply embraced the absurdity of the tech world, corporate structure and the media. He seemed to choose his opinions not based on some inner compass of what side of an situation was right, but by which side would be the most fun to argue. He was a deep well of knowledge about the OG personal computing industry... he had dirt on all the big names, but wasn't nasty about it. >>109361535>John said he was 74 years old but they said that he died at 80 years old. 6 year discrepancy.This got discussed in his memorial podcast episode. He lied about his age and birthplace to a New York Times reporter once and it got in printed in the paper. Then it could be cited everywhere including wikipedia since NYT is the "paper of record." A beautiful troll job that none of us knew until is passing.
imagine listening to this gay ass show>covid seething 6 years later>I bought a whole cow from the butcher>did I mention I invented the podcast>psyop psyop psyop
>>109348164some dead luddite idk
>>109366686You took the vaxx didn't you?>>109366750>luddite Why do you try to use words that you don't know the mean of to try and impress strangers on the internet?
>>109367035Because I know luddites HATE being called luddites.
Another reason to hate NCIS.Rest easy John.
>>109364381Right in the feels. I didn't know Cheifet died less than a year ago. When I was a kid I always thought he was kind of rude to the nice and enthusiastic presenters and didn't let them talk about their product in depth. Apparently a lot of people felt that way but it turns out that he knew that the industry norm was to shill as hard as possible for as long as possible and he forced them to keep things to a short demo.
Grifter boomer.
>>109352193He was also a humorist, for the zoomies out there. Not everything he said was literal or even approximately his actual opinion.
>>109366686You don't get it. He was one of these earnest people.Not "correct" - earnest. We used to think that was important, that's how we measured you. When you see American films, you still see it. The bad guy is a good guy, kind of, because he's the only one who calls a spade a spade.
>>109367674He was stone cold anti-grift. That's why I'll miss him, even if he was retarded sometimes. He was always real, if also very much a boomer.
this nigga didnt even get a sticky because theres no point in stickying on a dead board kek. when stallman dies its gonna be even slower.
>>109364115>>109365639Struck a nerve, did I? Here’s your (You). Now run along, there are plenty of grumpy Israel obsessed boomers left for you to worship
Nothing makes me giddier than warmonger boomers that acked.
>>109354015I only listened for JCD. Curry has been too above it all with the Christian stuff for the past year or so. I'll still see where the show goes, but feel like he should end it without JCD
>>109370183The Christian stuff doesn't bother me. It's where Adam's at in life right now and I don't think he needs to hide it. That being said, I agree the show *should* end without JCD. Will it? No way... Adam will keep it going in some diluted form just to keep the recurring donations rolling in. Those guys make bank - even with all the kvetching about donations being down.
>>109366686This part, the show is just Coast2Coast AM for retards.
>>109361384https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1990-06-12/page/n85/mode/2up
>>109370756>20MHz CPU>1MB RAM>40MB Hard Drive>13 or 14 inch monochrome monitor>All for the low low price of $3,299! ($8,429 in 2026 dollars)And people were replacing these things every few years. Were we wealthier back then or just poorer now? I can't imagine dropping spending that much on a computer these days, especially a low end model.
>>109347995>The original Cranky Geek, John C Dvorak has diedWait THAT Dvorak?
>>109370689counterpoint, Art Bell may not have made it to heaven, but Dvorak was a real Christian and wasn't married to an actual witch.
>>109372104>He was a nephew of sociologist August Dvorak, creator of the Dvorak keyboard.
>>109372018>Were we wealthier back then or just poorer now?We were replaced.
>>109372018>I can't imagine dropping spending that much on a computer these daysyou likely wouldnt have a computer back then. relatively few households had one.as for the cost people do drop that much on one today. anyone buying a dgx spark or a strix halo(framework desktop, or some other chinkbox) today is dropping $4k on a computer. back then there were word processors; computers with screens that only ran a text editor that was only a few hundred dollars, if you only needed to type text to a document.
>>109372109Which ones of Art's 3 wives was a witch?
>>109372159That 8.5k Dell was a low to mid-tier model. 8.5k today gets you a top-tier system easily even with the insane AI pricing. Although most households did not have a 386 in 1990, there were probably a couple million that did. I doubt there are over even one million households with a DGX spark now despite the higher population and higher inflation adjusted incomes. People aren't buying $9000 machines because a $1000 machine is fast and useful enough for most people and gaymerz are generally fine with a $2000 one. Back then, doubling CPU performance was really noticeable but that's not the case for most people today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHzHVF-4Mg
>>109348171>if you don't personally know a specific one of the 8.3 billion humans on this planet why are you on this board
>>109368092Wow, you're so edgy! Can I be your friend?!?!?!
>>109372933>I'm coping because I'm on a technology related board and I don't know this legend that has been space in this space for 40+ years so I'm going to be a faggy bitch about it because my ego was hurtok anon.
>>109372913was he the O/g/ troll?
>>109373906If not THE first he was, for sure, one of the first. Even the name of his most famous magazine column was a troll.
>>109347995In-the-MIGA, boomer.
>>109374806Inside Track? Was that title a troll? His New York Times birthdate thing was also a pretty impressive troll.
>>109347995Mods.Sticky.
>>109372295I believe he's referring to Romana, who was a Wiccan (and Catholic).Also Bell had more than three wives.
>>109352381Yep. Dvorak was interesting as a contrarian crank, but he'd have been better served with any other cohost. Listening to any ep was a chore.No idea what Curry's gonna do. I know he branched out into some god-bothering shit, so I guess he's got some grift going there.
>>109367362That actually cracked me up. He was himself to the end.
it’s because you wanted all baby boomers dead and it’s already happening
>>109347995RIP, God bless him.
>>109372018That's what corps were paying. They're paying a little less now per seat, for far more PCs. And $8K is pretty entry level for pro mac systems.Families were buying sub $2000, sometimes sub $1000, sometimes cheaper Commodores/Apple II systems.
>>109378900corporations are paying a little under $8,400 per PC these days? Aren't their machines normally pretty dinky Office things?
>>109379017Depends. I'm at a fairly big place, multi-cities, and different departments have different needs. Cheapest spec is about $450, some seats are about $4K, laptops run about $2500-$3000, design dept gets some great gear, mac and not, for $8K - $10K.
>>109347995>John C Dvorak has diedRIP
>>109379047What would you the average is? It's gotta be well under $8,400. I guess the comparison works with the design department. Since the 90s Dell with a color monitor works out to $11K-13K today with the 1MB RAM machines let alone the top spec 16MB config you could say that's not that far off $8K-10K. But if we look at Mac pricing, their high end Apple IIfx is over $17,000 today and I'm sure it could be optioned out quite a bit.
>>109379165Hard to say the average, I don't have complete data (not at all my department, I just know what some of them run).The high end Mac is super high end though -- we usually get the whatever, mac studio specced highly for our designers, although I don't think we've gotten any since this past winter -- I bet they'd want to compromise if they bought a few today.
>>109378900>And $8K is pretty entry level for pro mac systems.Yes. Listen to this talk radio call from the early 90s. Bitch thought her $10k mac would last 10 years.https://youtu.be/LCtloVmiQRk?t=2367
>>109379617I guess normies weren't really tracking the super rapid changes back then. A 10 year old computer would have been an absolute dinosaur in 1990 or 2000 but here I am on my machine from 2013 and it does everything I want.
He was a good goy.
Israel firster
>>109372913MacToddlers BTFO
>>109380215Same here, my computer is from 2012 and is still running silky smooth. SSD and beyond were the big game changers
ITM
>>109382240>SSD and beyond were the big game changersRight on the money. Switching old computers to SSD made them feel 10x faster than when they were new. Booting and starting a lot of programs used to take long enough that I would grab a drink while the machine was going crrrrrrrr crunch crunch crrrrrrr but now it's all done in seconds, if that.
Donate! Donate!
>>109348424So basically he's a nepo baby, got it.
>>109348358LMAO. Was coming to say that. "The keyboard dude?"
Lied about his age.Supports Iran War.Money grubber.
>>109360975What it says on the tin. You're sheltered if you don't know what a sex swing is.>>109360926>wasHe STILL is. I think the only reason TWiT is still going besides TechTV nostalgia is that hate watchers watch for whatever porn addled Leo leaks.
>>109386409Leo is a retard and people should just ignore him, same goes with Adam Curry
>>109387659right, leo always sucked. dvorak kept it real. he was a boomer, but at least not fake.>>109386365an earnest boomer. he'll be missed.>>109386336I doubt that.
>>109380612>>109380536basic boomer in that area.Being pro-israel has been the social defense against accusations of being fascist.
ITT: Millennials who have never opened up a magazine.
so adam curryflavor was jcvd handler all along>>109387659>>109348942>>109348595>>109356034>>109361810>>109370330>>109387659>>109387659
>>109389277I've listened to their podcast and it always seemed like Adam was running it for the most part and JCD was a color commentator. Since I mainly listened for JCD's stories, I'm glad Adam made that possible.
>>109389645i was always more impressed by JCD's analysis than Curry's. Curry is great at production, but over the last 6-8 years, Adam has spread himself pretty thin between all of the different podcasts he is hosting. I will say the No Agenda improved greatly once Adam stopped getting high af before every show. It's a shame they both got so fixated on Covid. There were hour long segments on covid for YEARS... it was like hearing "the sky is blue" over and over. Yes... there was a lot of bullshit that went down, but it's boring af to hear ad nauseam.
>>109389725Their analyses seemed all over the place. Like with the Iran thing: something about breaking a North Sea British conspiracy, military industrial complex paying off AIPAC lobbyists, long-term strat against China, and probably a bunch of other theories I forgot. The main point of the show, media deconstruction, was solid and it does seem like JCD brought more to the table there but I think you could get the essentials after maybe a dozen episodes.I could never really take Adam seriously after he tried to do an IRL meet with someone who claimed to be an alien. Him not getting high was an improvement definitely. Agree that the Covid segments got tedious but when I heard some of the memorial segment, so many people were thankful about their Covid coverage and how it helped them through the intense fearmongering campaign that I can forgive that.
>>109362740>triple digit oillel, you unironically posted this. embarrassing.
>>109387761our values culture is out of hand, we need some honor back.
>>109347995another thing that I remember is he was the first non-liberal that I was aware of to speak about porn roughly practically.
>>109390614>roughly practically.what does this mean in english, doc.
>>109390625practically. roughly, anyway. approximately. He wasn't perfect. He was dry, and he was very un-optimistic.
>>109390638(also)There was some benefit to the assymetry of the power of writers, because it was less "chatty".some ideas are actually pretty good, but are unsayable in a chatty atmosphere.
>>109390655what the fuck are you babbling on about? are you a bot?
Two week show break with new voices.Who will the new cohost be? Any guesses?
>>109375961Yes and Yes.
>>109391615If I had to guess it'll be members of the Dvorak family and people like Void Zero, Darren O'Neil, and others who provide high "value" to the show.
>>109391944Guess the joke flew over my head. How was it a Troll?
>>109347995I'm not glad that he is dead, but I'm glad he is gone.
MIGA boomer that didn't care about dead children from American bombs goes ack.
>>109391615curry said on podcasting 20 last week that he cant replace jcd with anyone. he's making it sound like he's prob gonna walk away from the podcast himself and leave it to the "no agenda nation".
>>109396767>leave it to the "no agenda nation"They were already hemorrhaging listeners since they started supporting war in Iran and Trump. Might as well retire and collect SS
>>109396767>curry said on podcasting 20 last last weekthat their boostagrams were costing them more to host than receiving and upset a lot of people building itadam is grieving and needs to process thingsgodcaster app is all in
>>109394074I care about Christian children, ok? That's why I want total remigration, we can instantly turn everything around.>>109393882why? ywnbaw.
>>109396767and nothing of value was lost
>>109397887>why? ywnbaw.nothing of value was lost
>>109397245>that their boostagrams were costing them more to host than receiving and upset a lot of people building itconsidering a boostagram is a small json file thats not what they said at all. all the hosting costs are the database of podcast RSS feeds they call the podcast index and all the automations and APIs they maintain to not make that index go down or fill with spam.
