At the beginning of 2023, after finishing Fu Zhen’s The Best Wine Is Worth Trading a Golden Turtle For, I wanted to travel to Latin America. After getting a U.S. visa in early 2024, I finally arrived in Mexico, my first stop in Latin America. To travel and communicate better in this part of the world, I decided to learn Spanish. In my first month, I painfully built up basic vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar knowledge.

At the beginning of 2023, after finishing Fu Zhen’s The Best Wine Is Worth Trading a Golden Turtle For, I wanted to travel to Latin America. After getting a U.S. visa in early 2024, I finally arrived in Mexico, my first stop in Latin America. To travel and communicate better in this part of the world, I decided to learn Spanish. With the prospect of speaking Spanish fluently in the future in mind, I struggled through my first month of study.

Podventure is a general-purpose podcast app independently developed by Harold and is currently in public beta. This is the story behind the app.

Foreword: I am a podcast lover, also an indie hacker. I have used Apple Podcasts, Overcast and Pocket Casts, but never totally content with them. So instead, I developed my own Podcast Player called Podventure. (If you are a podcast lover like me, maybe you would also love it, why not give it a try?)

(This essay is translated from zh-CN) Author’s note : On July 1, 2023, I started my first overseas trip from Hong Kong Airport. A very important goal during the trip was to understand English podcasts. Intensive listening to Chinese podcasts over the past few years has had a huge impact on me. I’m curious, what inspiration will the world of English podcasts bring me? I have switched most of my daily information input to English.