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v0.12.0 — Coffee Break
Coffee Break.
Every topic has a podcast now. After a brew, Carl and his co-host Vienna sit down and talk through
what he found: Carl reports, Vienna asks what you would, and no chapter ends until it lands on why the
finding matters to you. One chapter a finding, and an episode aims for about half an hour, so fewer
findings get longer chapters. It is never padded. Carl and Vienna are AI voices, and
every chapter says where its finding came from.
The player sits at the top of the topic page, under the title. The scrubber is split by chapter, the
chapter on air is highlighted, and each finding the episode covers is tagged with its chapter, so a
tap on a tag jumps there. Back 15 seconds, forward 30, a speed control, and a thumbs up or down on a
chapter that rates its finding. A finding you like or bookmark comes back in later episodes, and one
you rate down is never covered again. Go to another page and the episode keeps playing in a small player at
the bottom of the screen, and your phone's lock screen shows the episode and skips chapters. Signed
in, an episode picks up where you stopped, on any device, and when one ends the next unplayed episode
from your other topics starts.
Take it with you. Subscribe on the player opens Apple Podcasts on an iPhone and your podcast app
on Android, and Copy feed link works in Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, AntennaPod, or any app
that adds a show by its link. A public topic's feed is public. A private or invite topic's feed link
is yours alone, and Reset my link ends the old one. Each public episode also has its own page with
the full transcript.
Coffee Break podcast episodes, beside the brew diary, lists every episode by season, and the email
for a brew names its episode and links straight to it. The topic's owner has a Podcast switch at
the bottom of the edit form, Carl can flip it in Coffee Talk, and the owner can remove a single
episode for good.
Recording costs coffee, so the plans changed with it. Free gets one episode per topic, its first.
Plus and Premium get one after every brew, and are now $20 and $40 a month, or $200 and $400 a year,
with a bigger coffee fund: about 150 and 350 brews a month. Carl's coffee fund on the account page
shows the podcast beside brews and Coffee Talk. Brews come first: once the month's spend passes 80
percent of the fund, episodes wait for next month and brews keep running.
Also in this release: the brew diary shows five brews at a time, with page numbers under the card. The
Artisanal Blend card moves under the topic roast and puts a topic's settings in one place: how often it
brews, how many findings it keeps, who can see it, its sources, what it cost this month, and whether its
podcast is on. A link to a public episode shows its own card, with the cover, wherever you paste it. The
docs cover it:
Coffee Break podcast and
Plans and limits.