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Promising once it has a volume of users. At first though, I imagine it would attract relatively new podcasts that don't yet have established communities. That said, until it reaches some critical mass which adds value to creators in terms of discovery and community, asking small time creators to fork out 360USD per year is quite a big ask.
I'm having a hard time believing everyone who produces a podcast is happy to have their shows played through a site that is looking to make money from their content.
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There are also many hobby subreddits where the moderators are jerks and have zero clue how to manage or grow a community. There may be some "goldilocks" subreddit size, but IMO there are approaching zero Reddit communities that are "healthily" run, probably because most of the people involved (users, mods) are literal, actual children.
That hasn't been my experience. I've been pleased, for the most part, with how r/woodworking, r/boardgames, r/cooking, r/18xx, r/cooking, r/gardening, r/boardgamedeals, r/visitingiceland, etc. are run. I've run into very few toxic subreddits.
The biggest thing missing for me getting started is a reddit-like "feed" showing where discussion is actually happening. Like the reddit logged-out homepage (/best, not /new). The value of Podbabble is the intersection of podcast episodes that 1) people are talking about and 2) I have listened to. Right now the only way for me to find that intersection is to start from (2), searching for every podcast I can think of,…
100% this ^. I listen podcasts daily, am interested in discovering new ones, and do not create any podcasts. Looking at the home page I'm not sure how to find any content. Definitely not interested in creating an account just to see what's there. I recommend reading Reddit's origin story. There needs to be interesting content to get the first users to create content. Maybe the goal is to sell podcasters and get them…
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I didn't say recreate reddit. The point of the reddit origin story is that people will only start contributing content if there's already interesting content there. If I host a new forum and just leave it on the internet, will someone create a account and post when there's zero messages there? Unlikely. Ergo, founders of a social site need to seed it with interesting enough content that the first users will stick aro…
Right and I’m suggesting Reddits origin story leads to a website like Reddit, and is not something anyone should seek to reproduce (unless being Reddit is your goal.) Making fake accounts isn’t the way to go if you want a decent discussion site specifically for podcasts. Otherwise You already have subreddits for every most of them. The niche of a site like this is to not be going for growth at the expense of intellec…
I'm referencing an example of a broader principle and you're interpreting it as a specific recommendation. Stack overflow overcame the empty website problem by having two founders each with widely followed blogs. That brought enough users on day 1 to generate content. In some way, the problem must be dealt with because an empty website doesn't go anywhere.
> The niche of a site like this is to not be going for growth at the expense of intellectual discussion.
This as much depends on the founder's goals as any growth tactic. Not all podcasts are intellectual.