# Marco Arment on Reddit (u/marcoarment)

Part of Founders and CEOs on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/marco-arment

Marco Arment: Creator of Overcast and Tumblr's first employee.

- Reddit account: [u/marcoarment](https://www.reddit.com/user/marcoarment/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [His post "What I'm doing here" in r/OvercastApp](https://www.reddit.com/r/OvercastApp/comments/1neq7jx/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/overcast (22), r/OvercastApp (5), r/pics (1), r/Watches (1), r/apple (1)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2011 to 2026
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Arment

## Moments

### u/marcoarment in r/OvercastApp, Sep 12, 2025 · Fixed it

Replying to a redditor:

> Sad to see that the shuffling of playlists that have been manually adjusted didn’t make the list. That bug hits me multiple times a week. I recognize it’s not an easy one to fix, just disappointed that it appears abandoned.

> Do you have any older copies of the app that are syncing with your account? On an old iPad or Watch, maybe?
>
> This issue should be completely resolved as of a few versions ago. Here's a photo of when I found it during a Long Island Railroad commute and fixed it one-handed during a transfer on the Jamaica, Queens train platform.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/OvercastApp/comments/1nepzbd/comment/ndtiz8h/ · 6 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/marcoarment in r/overcast, Mar 20, 2026 · Early days

Replying to the post "Never seen datacenter infra?!?".

> Because we were leasing dedicated servers, not managing the physical hardware ourselves.
>
> When we started Tumblr (2006), we ran it from a single dedicated server at Rackspace that David already had from consulting work. (It was $800/month. Rackspace was expensive, but David valued their tech support as he was learning how to run servers.)
>
> We stayed on one server for far too long, but Tumblr didn't have funding until late 2007! David was just paying for the server (and our salaries) with our consulting income.
>
> We later added a second Rackspace server as a dedicated MySQL database for something like another $1200/month. Tumblr ran on just those two servers until March 2008! (It was stressful. This is when I learned how to run things cheaply and efficiently.)
>
> In March 2008, we moved to six self-managed dedicated servers at ThePlanet (which later became SoftLayer).
>
> From then until I left in late 2010, we scaled by just ordering more and more dedicated servers — first a couple at a time, but by the end, entire cabinets at a time.
>
> When I left, we had a dedicated sysadmin so I wasn't managing the servers directly anymore (thank goodness — hi Andrew, if you ever see this!), but we had something like 130 dedicated servers, all in SoftLayer datacenters in Texas that we'd never set foot in.
>
> Anyway, that's how.
>
> The only thing Tumblr ever did in Texas was host a killer Rock Band party at SXSW as I hung out with Merlin Mann, Adam Lisagor, Michael Lopp, and John Gruber, all of whom I'd met for the first time [earlier that day](http://www.43folders.com/2009/03/25/blogs-turbocharged) and they'd immediately welcomed me into their group as a peer, because they're all really good and friendly people. (It was a pretty significant day for me.)

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1ryhjwl/never_seen_datacenter_infra/obi7ssr/ · 59 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/marcoarment in r/overcast, Mar 20, 2026 · Funny

Replying to a redditor:

> Ahh, the days I used to rack Xserves and Xsan's. Would have preferred lifting Mac minis instead.

> The datacenter offered me a forklift. I laughed.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1ryvni2/accidental_data_centre/obhz4qr/ · 42 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/marcoarment in r/pics, Aug 4, 2011 · Funny

Replying to the post "Great Scott!".

> I took this picture, and you've stolen it without credit.
>
> Original, posted yesterday: http://instagr.am/p/JQdb6/
>
> Thanks a lot.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j8sup/great_scott/c2a3ur7/ · 969 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/marcoarment in r/overcast, Oct 11, 2026 · Fixed it

Replying to the post "Nitpicky Details Feature Request: Chime when skipping a chapter".

> I actually hired a sound designer recently to solve exactly this problem. Soon.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1x3iy6x/nitpicky_details_feature_request_chime_when/pfbmcic/ · 42 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/marcoarment in r/overcast, Jul 23, 2026 · Personal story

Replying to a redditor:

> I love you Marco.

> "thanx, ur pretty cool too", to quote a note Libby passed me in 9th-grade math class after I said I liked her, which completely paralyzed me and I had no idea what to do next so I did absolutely nothing (sorry Libby)

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1v4lff6/202671_released_higher_speeds_watch_audio_effects/ozcaqef/ · 39 points as of Nov 7, 2026