What Is Jon Buda's Podcast Platform Transistor.fm?

Jon Buda describes Transistor.fm as a podcast hosting and analytics platform. A show needs a place to store audio, an RSS feed with the show and episode details, listener numbers, and distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other apps. Transistor is the subscription product that does that. It can also build a website for the podcast and supply embeddable players if you want to keep your own site. Buda says the aim is to make publishing easy once the episode is recorded. He had helped build an earlier podcast platform that came apart for him around 2015, then stayed around shows while working at Cards Against Humanity in Chicago.