Show HN: Podflix – Like Netflix for Podcasts

Post by bdcravens » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:17 PM UTC

shrikar wrote: post #119

bdcravens wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I searched "Ruby" - got almost a full page of results for random podcasts (perhaps they had a guest named Ruby at some point?) until I saw an actual podcast about Ruby. "Docker" - 1 result, about a personal brand podcast From a quick inspect, looks to be just a SPA sending all search through Algolia, as opposed to a search geared toward podcasts specifically. (my understanding is that you can customize the inde…

Probably what you were looking for https://podflix.app/category/Web ?

Post by halfastack » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 8:53 PM UTC

TickleSteve wrote: post #22

(Pedantic) The 'flix' in Netflix refers to 'flicks', i.e. films.... that is clearly not the case here. Surely the name should have been something more like 'NetCasts'?

Post by shrikar » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 5:50 AM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #107

If you're going to appear to change state, save state. Nifty on the fly search is nifty I suppose, but when I click through, then use back arrow, you shouldn't take me to beginning, losing all of my search results. Stop breaking the browser people. (this is as much a rant about this same pattern I've seen elsewhere as it is a knock against your site)

Post by diegoperini » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 9:51 AM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #107

If you're going to appear to change state, save state. Nifty on the fly search is nifty I suppose, but when I click through, then use back arrow, you shouldn't take me to beginning, losing all of my search results. Stop breaking the browser people. (this is as much a rant about this same pattern I've seen elsewhere as it is a knock against your site)

Post by dmcswain » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 5:26 PM UTC