I just discovered https://trint.com .

No idea if they're any good, but they're certainly cheaper than Rev.

I've said this a few times but happy to say it again: I will very cheerfully pay for a good podcast -> transcript service.

I speed-read. I don't speed-listen. And my lifestyle has zero podcast-compatible travel time. So there's a whole world of great content in a very user-unfriendly format for me currently.

Thanks for the input!

Goddamn, that really does sound sinister as hell.

Hah! That's an interesting idea. I might just think about doing that for an April Fools' or similar...

If people enjoyed this post, you might be interested to hear that the author (me) is currently doing an AMA over on Reddit, too -

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/7c1y9q/im_hugh_hanco...

OP and writer of the article here.

I'm embarassed to say that I wrote Postfix when I meant Sendmail! I might just go ninja-edit that now :)

That will change now that it's at the top of HN, but I agree - it's currently very obscure to search engines.

My guess is that it's a new site? Only a few articles, and Open Site Explorer reports a Domain Authority of 18, which is approximately equal to zero :)

However, if the author keeps writing these articles at this level of quality, chances are in a year it'll dominate relevant SERPs.

Because they'd have to talk users through allowing direct APK installs, complete with all the scary warnings.

That's going to reduce the number of customers they get a lot more than a redirect to the Play Store.

How about a choice of Google Play Store or direct download, for "Advanced" users? That's all I'm asking, just a tiny little 8pt font link to directly download the APK.

Why would a business host a APK directly when they can just utilize Google's infrastructure for free? Likely you would have a lot of users mistakingly download the APK if they saw the link and get confused as to why it's not working like all their other apps, whereas downloading from Google Play Store works seamlessly.

Then host the APK on GitHub. They don't have to host source there as well. And I'm sure they can design a page in such a way that only the more technical potential customers go for the direct download.

It's also rather ridiculous that these services are accessible/usable/activated only via an installed app on my phone or tablet. Just make the service available via my web browser and the issue is resolved.

In the end I just don't bother with these services - N26, Monzo and now Revolut. I'll just stick with TransferWise.

How would you deal with updates?

You might like Eurasia Group's "Signal" - https://medium.com/signal-geopolitics-made-simple/saudi-andr...

I would pay $5 to get a text transcription of any podcast.

My life doesn't support podcast-listening particularly well, and yet I know there's a lot of good info out there in the audio world.

Don't most mainstream podcasts come with a text transcription?