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creator here: I'd love to speak to anyone that has their own podcast to find out what you need. feel free to email me at podcastcatalog@gmail.com thank you for all the feedback and support!
I'm noticing many omissions and errors from my friends' podcasts (which aren't all that popular, so understandable.) Rather than list the issues here, I'm wondering what's the best way they can improve the data for their shows and personas overall.
Is there any tool to search for podcast by length or format?
I really like the Writing Excuses podcast (from suggestions on HN) and would like to find others in the same format on different topics. Short podcasts with well thought out analysis and answers.
I really like the idea, but (to give some feedback) I don't think one can call anything the imdb for x without a best/worst 250. And ratings and explore by category and I want a pony... (Also the site is somewhat unfriendly for NoScript users, apparently one has to allow apple.com to get search working, which is counter intuitive. But of course noscript users should expect some trouble.)
Here's my anecdata: Searched for John Oliver and got no relevant results. Searched for Andy Zaltzman and got his cricket podcast. Searched for The Bugle and found it, but no links to the aforementioned hosts. Searched for John Bain and got his picture + a mention from a podcast I didn't recognize. Searched for TotalBiscuit and found The Co-optional Podcast and other CynicalBrit stuff.
Hmm...I wonder how many bits of my own identifying info I just leaked there... Oh well.
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All very cool stuff. Let's just say that the reasons why I stopped listening to KATG were not tech related. There was a point when I was beginning discussions with a former KATG guest to develop an app for his podcast, but that didn't work out. Similar to your work it would've involved going much further beyond simple RSS feeds and I would've needed to write an API, provision servers, and write a front end (I was loo…
The biggest issue I see with podcasting is the complicated subscribe process and monetization of the show. The biggest fish (Marc, Joe, Leo) have a team behind them to help with monetization but subscribing is still problematic. Without having a custom app for your podcast, you need to explain to people what an RSS feed is. You just lost 80% of your potential listeners. Alternatively, you can suggest they use a 3rd p…
If your Podcast feed contains the tag:
Label
SkipCast displays an in-app link to that location with the text 'Donate'. Uptake for this feature has been quite positive.
I'd love to expand support for this to other systems and tags. It's an interesting little feature, and as an avid Podcast listener as well as app developer, hope content creators find success with it. It's quite literally the least we can do as developers.
Finally: Quick shout out to KATG, I've spend hours staring at your cover art as it was one of my favorite test feeds used when developing the app!
Podcat does not seem to get the names of podcasters correct. For example, searching for Marco Arment links to only some episodes of 'Build and Analyze', which is Arment's old podcast where he appeared in 100% of episodes.
Podcat appears to index names if the given name is name-checked in a podcast's episode text. That's going to be a spam target.
Potentially Podcat could be a great thing. Interesting work.