With podcasting, there is more of a defined line between creation and consumption, and that's, I think, because of the post-production nature of working with audio and video before it's published and then consumed.

Most of our industry's tech resources go towards the consumption side of the podcasting platform.

We are going in the opposite direction and helping empower the creative experience within podcasting.

My name is Zachariah Moreno.

I'm the co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Squadcast.fm.

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.

I'm your host, Noah Laphart, and today how Zach Moreno was fed up with podcast recording tools and decided to make them better for you and your squad.

All this and more on Code Story.

Zach Moreno is quite the Renaissance man.

Being an artist, designer, author, developer, and a loving husband.

He's interned on the Chrome team at Google, building extensions of dev tools, and as a big believer in user in Angular JS, he wrote a book about deployment essentials of the language.

After attempting to record a sci-fi drama, he found that the conventional remote audio recording tools didn't produce a good quality recording.

So much so that he decided to build squadcast, the best way for podcasters to record awesome sounding remote conversations.

We wanted to do that sci-fi audio drama that I mentioned and we really ran into this challenge of working with remote team, remote voice actors.

And we were using the conventional communications platforms like Skype or Zoom.

And the quality was frankly garbage from not my perspective, but my brother's perspective, who I did mention is, you know, he's an audio engineer.

It's like, these things weren't made to record audio. They were made to record conference calls so the government or enterprises can have a recording of that call.

And the person who was out sick may be able to listen to it, but not a million people, right?

Not a huge audience of,

you know, active listeners to a podcast. So that's really where we found that challenge of

high quality recording for people who aren't in the same location. And that turns out to be a

very interesting set of challenges that was, you know, non-trivial to make any progress on and

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