{"id":53789,"date":"2026-11-06T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53789"},"modified":"2026-11-06T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:56:59","slug":"castro-sold-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/06\/castro-sold-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Castro Sold Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommonapps.nyc\/p\/castro-update\">Dustin Bluck<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.uncommonapps.nyc\/p\/castro-update\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve decided to sell the app to <a href=\"https:\/\/maplemedia.io\/\">Maple Media<\/a>. Maple Media is a mobile media and technology company that owns and runs category-leading entertainment, productivity and podcasting apps, including Player FM.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/28\/indie-podcast-apps-not-growing\/\">Indie Podcast Apps Not Growing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/06\/castros-customer-support-lessons\/\">Castro&rsquo;s Customer Support Lessons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/castro-sold-again\/\">Castro Sold Again<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/05\/castro-may-be-dying\/\">Castro May Be Dying<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/27\/castro-sold-to-tiny\/\">Castro Sold to Tiny<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Bluck: I&rsquo;ve decided to sell the app to Maple Media. Maple Media is a mobile media and technology company that owns and runs category-leading entertainment, productivity and podcasting apps, including Player FM. Previously: Indie Podcast Apps Not Growing Castro&rsquo;s Customer Support Lessons Castro Sold Again Castro May Be Dying Castro Sold to Tiny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-11-06T23:57:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"398d81a3-3886-44ad-9a1a-5ac999bd6145","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-11-06T23:57:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AOY2BoziGRK2aGlrJmb1hRQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,101,778,31,2887,26,112],"class_list":["post-53789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-business","tag-castro","tag-ios","tag-ios-27","tag-iosapp","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53790,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53789\/revisions\/53790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}