Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#1

Post by matttheatheist » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 7:30 AM UTC

This project took me 1 year to complete, all by my lonesome self.

What do you think? Comments appreciated!

www.enrad.io

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#2

Post by anilgulecha » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 7:36 AM UTC

This brings FM for phones without it? Don't most phones already have built in FM?

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#3

Post by matttheatheist » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 7:39 AM UTC

anilgulecha wrote: post #2

This brings FM for phones without it? Don't most phones already have built in FM?

Exactly. Phones without FM capabilities can now listen to FM radio. It even works in "airplane mode", since you're not actually streaming anything from a server.

And by the way, most phones have the FM chip purposely disabled... forcing you to stream data from the internet.

But with this device, anybody can get FM radio.

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#4

Post by nostrademons » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 8:05 AM UTC

Price point is way too high. I can buy a portable radio from Target for $10.

If it were just an app (no hardware) with a price point in the $5-10 range, I'd find it useful. Not sure whether that's even possible though. The existence of cheap competitors sets a ceiling on what you can charge for it.

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#5

Post by anilgulecha » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 8:09 AM UTC

matttheatheist wrote: post #3

anilgulecha wrote: post #2

This brings FM for phones without it? Don't most phones already have built in FM?

Exactly. Phones without FM capabilities can now listen to FM radio. It even works in "airplane mode", since you're not actually streaming anything from a server. And by the way, most phones have the FM chip purposely disabled... forcing you to stream data from the internet. But with this device, anybody can get FM radio.

Got it. This could be a US thing.. Asian phones almost all have this feature.

Also, your competition is probably a simple 10$ FM radio on aliexpress/amazon.

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#6

Post by shadowfax92 » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 8:28 AM UTC

Love the concept! But, with things like Spotify/App Music/Sound Cloud and many more streaming services, I think a very small population of users actually use radio.

[Suggestion] Can this have some application in Medical or SOS or listening to police scanner?

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#7

Post by brudgers » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 5:16 PM UTC

Clickable: www.enrad.io

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#8

Post by matttheatheist » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 6:06 PM UTC

shadowfax92 wrote: post #6

Love the concept! But, with things like Spotify/App Music/Sound Cloud and many more streaming services, I think a very small population of users actually use radio. [Suggestion] Can this have some application in Medical or SOS or listening to police scanner?

It picks up transmissions from 87.5 to 107.9 MHz.

Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#9

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 6:06 PM UTC

shadowfax92 wrote: post #6

Love the concept! But, with things like Spotify/App Music/Sound Cloud and many more streaming services, I think a very small population of users actually use radio. [Suggestion] Can this have some application in Medical or SOS or listening to police scanner?

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Re: Show HN: 1 Project. 1 Engineer. 1 Year

#10

Post by matttheatheist » Thu, Oct 06, 2016, 7:57 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #4

Price point is way too high. I can buy a portable radio from Target for $10. If it were just an app (no hardware) with a price point in the $5-10 range, I'd find it useful. Not sure whether that's even possible though. The existence of cheap competitors sets a ceiling on what you can charge for it.

I'd love to give them away for free. I'll see what I can do about the price though.