Helipad
Helipad is a self-hosted web app that polls a Lightning node for incoming Podcasting 2.0 payments and shows the boosts and boostagrams attached to them.
Why it matters
A Boost arrives at a podcaster's node as a Lightning payment with metadata riding along in the Keysend TLV records. The node itself has no opinion about any of that — it sees an invoice, not a message. Without something to read the TLVs, the Boostagram a listener wrote is technically received and practically invisible.
How it works
A poller thread checks an LND node for invoices every nine seconds, parses the Podcasting 2.0 TLV records out of them, and stores the result in a local SQLite database. A separate web server thread serves that history over HTTP. It connects using the node's admin.macaroon and TLS cert — see Macaroon — and ships as an Umbrel app or a standalone binary.
Sources
Heard on the show
20 moments across 18 episodes.
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E179 · 10 May 2024 · Swiss Army App
- 0:30Helipad updatestimeline
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E165 · 26 Jan 2024 · hashtag This!
- Replies in Helipad betatimeline
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E134 · 26 May 2023 · ChapterGPT
- ericpp adds Helipad to Start9timeline
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E94 · 22 Jul 2022 · Bells Out
- 1:08:02Helipad Leader Board & APIchapter
- Helipad APIshow notes
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E93 · 15 Jul 2022 · Motion of Positivity
- Helipad is screaming for more features!show notes
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E92 · 1 Jul 2022 · Space Boost
- Helipad is screaming for more features!show notes
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E74 · 18 Feb 2022 · Confetti Canon
- 3:31Helipad updatechapter
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E71 · 28 Jan 2022 · SPECS and SPACS
- Helipad specsshow notes
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E240 · 31 Oct 2025 · Open Source = People!
- 1:33:49Helipad, right?transcript
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E161 · 29 Dec 2023 · Cooking with Sterno
- 1:26:09helipad. It could be something in health. So. Right. So whattranscript
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E155 · 17 Nov 2023 · Landing Zone
- 1:31:33me, I was indulge, I can do a quick export of my helipad. Andtranscript
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E132 · 12 May 2023 · Felt-Manhood
- 52:35heli pad. And I'm seeing by the way before I forget, for sometranscript
and 6 more episodes, back to E60 (29 Oct 2021).
Show all 20 moments across 18 episodes
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E240 · 31 Oct 2025 · Open Source = People!
- 1:33:49Helipad, right?transcript
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E179 · 10 May 2024 · Swiss Army App
- 0:30Helipad updatestimeline
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E165 · 26 Jan 2024 · hashtag This!
- Replies in Helipad betatimeline
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E161 · 29 Dec 2023 · Cooking with Sterno
- 1:26:09helipad. It could be something in health. So. Right. So whattranscript
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E155 · 17 Nov 2023 · Landing Zone
- 1:31:33me, I was indulge, I can do a quick export of my helipad. Andtranscript
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E134 · 26 May 2023 · ChapterGPT
- ericpp adds Helipad to Start9timeline
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E132 · 12 May 2023 · Felt-Manhood
- 52:35heli pad. And I'm seeing by the way before I forget, for sometranscript
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E116 · 6 Jan 2023 · Cryptotarians
- 1:36:57sound this one is in heli pad. Which I have been going throughtranscript
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E102 · 16 Sep 2022 · Down With OP3
- 1:04:54Well, just on the well just on the no helipad has look helitranscript
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E94 · 22 Jul 2022 · Bells Out
- 1:08:02Helipad Leader Board & APIchapter
- Helipad APIshow notes
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E93 · 15 Jul 2022 · Motion of Positivity
- Helipad is screaming for more features!show notes
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E92 · 1 Jul 2022 · Space Boost
- Helipad is screaming for more features!show notes
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E74 · 18 Feb 2022 · Confetti Canon
- 3:31Helipad updatechapter
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E71 · 28 Jan 2022 · SPECS and SPACS
- Helipad specsshow notes
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E68 · 31 Dec 2021 · Mind the Gap!
- Helipad updateshow notes
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E66 · 17 Dec 2021 · Drop The Gate
- Helipad Updateshow notes
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E64 · 3 Dec 2021 · Dave's not here man
- Helipad on Umbrel releasedtimeline
- Helipad on Umbrel for Boostagramsshow notes
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E60 · 29 Oct 2021 · Crossing the Line
- Helipad talktimeline
From chapter titles, show notes, the PC 2.0 Timeline and the clip notes. Where those say nothing, from the episode transcript — which reaches further but only records that a word was said. 214 of 266 episodes have curated notes; 177 moments come from transcripts.