Pass Muster Media Open Social

Writers · guests · readers, connected

Tech that hooks communities up.

Independent writers, their guests and their readers are scattered across Substack, YouTube, Bluesky and live shows. Pass Muster Media builds the wiring between them: a home for every writer's whole body of work, a feed that follows people instead of platforms, and the numbers that show what's working.

Offerings

Two products, one idea

People don't follow platforms. They follow people. Everything we build starts there.

Updates itself

Creator Sites

Your whole body of work at one address you can share, built from what you already publish.

  • Every post, video and show in one searchable archive
  • Your best work ranked, by all time, past year and past 90 days
  • Live shows as they happen, plus a calendar of what's coming
  • Your numbers kept every night, and a reach report on what's working
  • It updates itself. You keep publishing where you already do.
Free

Pass Muster Social

One feed of the writers you follow, wherever they publish. A card per person, not per account.

  • Substack, Bluesky and YouTube together, newest first
  • See who's live right now, with an alert when they start
  • A calendar of upcoming shows you can add to your own
  • No ads, no tracking, and we never ask for a password

What it does

One writer's site, by the numbers

From walterrhein.passmustermedia.com, built from Walter Rhein's public work and kept current on its own.

1,767

stories, one search

Every piece since 2023 from two publications, with each rerun and voiceover folded into the original.

553

live shows linked

His own shows and guest spots on other people's, each counted once.

182

guests connected

Everyone he's had on, with a Subscribe button for each of them. Their readers meet his.

60

days of shows ahead

Upcoming lives and invited guests, with Add to calendar, refreshed every few minutes.

How we build

Simple parts, chosen on purpose

Small, fast and polite to the platforms we depend on. The details are in The Tech.

01

Public data only

We read what's already public on Substack, YouTube and Bluesky. We never ask for anyone's password.

02

Fresh when it matters

We check hard where people are looking and gently everywhere else. How it works

03

Fast by default

Pages are built ahead of time and served from Cloudflare's network, so they open instantly on any phone.

04

Yours to keep

A writer's saved history is theirs. Ask, and we send it as plain files they can take anywhere.

The Tech

The tech behind what we offer

How the products work under the hood, written for people who like to know.