The episode, in writing
by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said
We're back and we've added more features because we're addicted to features. Building an app is about forgetting customers, let's just build features. I know that's the wrong way to be, but whilst I'm waiting for customers to pay, we'll talk about that on another episode.
I want to show you my screen. We've made some changes and you're going to see them straight away. If I click on Vault, what are you noticing? That took quite a while, so we'll look into that. But thumbnails. One thing that occurred to me is, when you start documenting like this and you put stuff out there and it's on the directories, on YouTube, you want people to find it, you want people to pick up on it. So there are a few things that I implemented here to really help with that.
Number one is the titles. The titles that it picks up go through the transcript, and then when it uploads to YouTube or TikTok and stuff, the titles and the keyword SEO are based on that platform. So instead of it just having a random title like episode sixty five, I did this, I did that, no one's searching that. You want people to find you. So it's going to look through your transcript to pull out some reality of what it's about and how we can change that into a title that someone would maybe search. That's the first thing.
The second thing is, I was thinking how does YouTube, or how do people distinguish themselves on YouTube to make people click through and watch. Thumbnails are a massive part of that. So I added, for high level members, it will create your thumbnails for you. Because it's already got your image of your face talking, it will pull out those and you can pick different faces within your settings, and it will give you different options. So not only can I see all these thumbnails here, but on YouTube now, all my thumbnails are done. Same when it goes to Instagram and so on. So you've got titles now being searched or more likely to be searched, and thumbnails that have a higher chance of clicking through.
The cool thing about all this is we have a context tab. Underway's brain is pulling through data, Google Search Console, how people are finding it, keywords. We're also soon going to have YouTube analytics pulled in, so it can see if we're being picked up more.
The other thing I thought about is we want people to maintain attention, we want people to watch the content. You can see that's a bit of me, AI, but it's pretty realistic. If I play it, you'll see something I've added to hold people's attention. It does buffer and you need to let it load, a bit like YouTube. It's called a buildup, an intro and a buildup. If you're on the high level membership, you can choose different bits of artwork on how that will look, and it will also find a segment from within your episode, probably the most entertaining part of it, and put that at the front to give people a bit of a teaser. I'm noticing one bug on that that's really annoying me, and I wanted to show you so you can see how this happened.
Within settings, there's a lot going on, and I'd advise you, if you're using this, to just get using the app first and have a look around later once you've started getting going with some episodes. You've got polish, the grade, how it comes out, do you want to be more tanned. You've got open with previously, so it opens with a section from the previous episode, or it just starts with a title screen. You've got music under the intro and choosing that, if I turn that off it goes up. You've got the music library, so there are so many options. You've got title and outro, you can see how they're all a bit different, but they're all pulling through my colours, my branded colours, my logo, et cetera, and this is how it looks. Outro at the end, you can turn that on and off.
So that's it for now.