Castro is back online and Tiny is considering finding a new home for the app, via Rob Fahrni. For Micro.blog we host podcasts, and we have our Wavelength app, but we’ve thought about doing more. Kind of neat to imagine Castro in our suite of apps if we had a non-$0 acquisition budget.

@manton business loan or get a silent partner with a minority stake

@manton 👀👀👀

@pratik @manton I would say, we as micro.blog users could be the silent partner’s. However, we are not very silent 🙃

@manton Maybe they would “sell” it to you for $0! Beats letting it lie fallow.

@manton I tried to get find funding to acquire Castro last year. It’s a great product with a lot of potential, but also a lot going for it already.
I worked on Castro for about 6 months last year.

@Kowfm Congrats on working on it. It really is a unique app, hope it finds a good home.

@manton I switched over to airshow. Podcasts and Feedbin go together like a glove.

@manton if it’s Bending Spoons the app is dead !

@manton feels like it could be a good fit for Automattic too if it’s got enough users to run profitably.

@harpaa01 oh please no! They already have a Podcast client I don’t like 😅

@harpaa01 Automattic does own Pocket Casts already, though. (I had to check to remember…)

@manton I had forgotten that they acquired Pocket Casts! Yeah they probably don’t need to own two unless the goal is to merge the users together.