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PublishingAn email newsletter service focused on the writing routine.
Podcast hosting that makes publishing and distribution manageable.
Transistor hosts podcasts and supplies distribution, analytics, and podcast websites. Its plans accommodate multiple shows with allowances for downloads and other resources.
Monthly or annual hosting plans based on resource allowances.
Source-linked product facts, followed by MRRTrace analysis of the customer problem, workflow, trade-offs and questions to test.
Transistor describes its job as simplifying podcasting through hosting, distribution, analytics, and support. Its company account says Jon Buda and Justin Jackson met in 2014: Jon had built a hosting tool, and Justin had a podcast. After collaborating on smaller projects, they discussed a new hosting platform in 2017. Their account documents familiarity with both the problem and each other.
Monthly or annual hosting plans based on resource allowances. Transistor hosts podcasts and supplies distribution, analytics, and podcast websites. Its plans accommodate multiple shows with allowances for downloads and other resources.
Observed channels and entry points; their performance is not inferred.
Transistor presents its offer to Independent podcasters, brands, and podcast networks. Its official product pages explain the workflow: Podcast hosting that makes publishing and distribution manageable. This is an observable discovery surface; public documentation does not establish the share of customers it acquires or the cost of acquiring them.
EvidenceA MRRTrace reading of public product material. Trade-offs and questions are editorial analysis.
Founder states $30K/month, not explicitly MRR in this excerpt. Preserve monthly revenue label. Historical 2019 milestone, not current revenue; later $100K+ MRR summaries were not promoted without a directly checked founder amount.
Justin Jackson founder-owned tweet archive, October 8, 2019Starter: $19/month; 20,000 monthly downloads
The source page may change its prices, limits, or offer after the recorded check date.
A product can earn recurring revenue by making an ongoing publishing operation easier.
These are MRRTrace observations, not statements by the founder or proof of a repeatable outcome.