Sounds like VoiceTree from LifeAfter (a fiction story podcast).
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#162Also, before I could even listen to one story your app tried to force me to watch a 20 second ad. Needless to say it is now uninstalled.
Weird, that shouldn't have happened. You're not supposed to get any ads until you've listened to at least X amount of waves. May I ask what platform you were on?
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#163How do you make money/finance this app?
It will be an advertising based revenue model.
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#164Couple things: 1. The sexual abuse story is unrelated to your app and feels like you're trying to guilt the customer into using it. The best way to support victims would be to donate directly to the NGO not use your app, and therefore this story seems like a disingenuous marketing strategy. 2. The problem with audio only social network is there's no way to "skim" things. There's no guarantee that the audio story a us…
Another problem might be that you can't use this at work without disturbing coworkers, or wearing a headphone.
...you can't listen to music at work without wearing headphones either. This has hardly put a dent in the popularity of music.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'll switch which of the 2 stories shows up at the front Good call. Maybe back off a little more than that, even. So I'm reading your page and liking what I see. I would like to know more. Here's a thing that might have more information, so I click it. Now I'm reading a surprisingly affecting comic about a kid who's been sexually abused and the fight against sex slavery. My mental and emotional associations with yo…
may I ask if others feel this way? My sharing this is because I think it's an important part of the story and why we created Currently, but I don't want it to have a "dark aura" around the app by any means. Does anyone else agree with the above sentiment?
A agree with it.
I think a more subtle way to go about this would be to say:
> We donate x% of our profits to Exodus Road. To find out more about who they are, and what this means to us, click HERE
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#166How do you make money/finance this app?
It will be an advertising based revenue model.
Just a side remark: there are a lot of boring jobs where looking at the screen isn't allowed, but voice communications is possible(and maybe using earphone buttons).
For them a voice-based social network sounds like a great idea.
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#167Could this be further segmented into types of audio? For instance, have a social network specifically for user-generated/recorded farts? Rank them in multiple dimensions (geolocation, time, genre)? Thoughts?
I've thought about a tagging system for topic, but to begin we're trying to keep everything as streamlined as possible (shortest amount of time between creating the story and having it out there).
Ah, I see.
I was thinking more along the lines of re-branding the same app multiple times for different genres.
I like the tag concept.
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#168Wow. That's a genuinely neat idea. Not sure about the delivery because I don't have an IOS device anymore.
we're hoping to do a web-based version. Would this work for you?
I would be interested in giving it a try, sure. Are you going to have a pseudonym policy or is it real name only?
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#169Hey,
Just trying out your app, is there a place you would prefer your feedback and bug reports or would you prefer to still use the email mentioned in the play store?
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#170Couple things: 1. The sexual abuse story is unrelated to your app and feels like you're trying to guilt the customer into using it. The best way to support victims would be to donate directly to the NGO not use your app, and therefore this story seems like a disingenuous marketing strategy. 2. The problem with audio only social network is there's no way to "skim" things. There's no guarantee that the audio story a us…
We skim conversations at parties. I think we can technologically enable this cognitive faculty.
Just because we do it in one particular case does not mean we are good at it, or that it is a better and viable way of operating. I, for one, am very bad at it at parties and all those different conversations drive me insane. Well OK, not literally insane, but they make me feel bad. Because I cannot deal with those multiple audio streams. I get distracted by the noise (leading to unable to follow), and very from the environment nervous.
I don't think its better either, and I believe this is why we see audio as addition to written text (it is called 'podcast' because of Apple marketing w/iPod). In other words, the text is read and from there it is being decided if we follow up with more text, audio, or video. Video is an exception because the eyes are used there as well.
However it is important to recognise audio-only use cases. Audio only feedback may work in some situations e.g. during sports/fitness, or driving a car (radio). I haven't been able to come up with additional examples though.