p0dcasters now lists Anchor shows, and you can submit your own

p0dcasters.com is a directory of independent podcasts built from the Podcast Index. Its one rule was measured, not declared: a domain carrying 25 or more live feeds is a hosting platform, and everything on it stays out. That rule threw out Anchor, Spotify's free host, along with the paid ones. Anchor carries about 99,000 live feeds, 40% of the whole index, and it is where most one-person shows start. Excluding it removed exactly the long tail the directory exists for.

As of today Anchor is the one platform let through. The directory went from 21,607 shows to 116,690 in a single rebuild. Buzzsprout, Libsyn, Megaphone and the other paid hosts and networks stay out.

Submit a show

There is a submit form now at p0dcasters.com/submit. Paste the show's site or its feed. The feed is found from the page and checked against the rules right away, so a refusal names the rule on the spot. A feed that passes waits for a person to look at it before it is listed, usually the same day, and then lives at its own page like every other show.

The same door is open to agents. POST /api/submit takes {"url": "..."} and answers with the show read from its feed, or the rule it missed. A show in the queue comes back as queued with a review entry and a status page to watch. The MCP server at /api/mcp has the same submit_feed tool, and the p0d CLI has p0d submit.

OpenAccess on the same doors

The site's OpenAccess descriptor at /.well-known/openaccess.json declares two scopes. podcasts:submit puts the grant's principal on the submission as the submitter. submissions:review opens the review queue at /api/review, so an agent holding that grant can approve or reject on the operator's behalf. Tokens from openaccess.logicsrc.com are verified offline against the hub's published keys.

What did not change

The 90-day rule, the three-episode minimum, the bulk-dump filter and the rest of the platform list are as they were. Submitted shows survive the weekly rebuild, and a show the dump later carries on its own keeps the slug it was approved under.

Drafted with an AI assistant, checked and edited by a person.