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Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
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Re: Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
#112$29/mo seems high for the vast majority of podcasts, which are labors of love run on shoestring budgets. Of course, it's peanuts for the high traffic sites. Did you consider a Dropbox-like pricing model, e.g., free for low-traffic sites?
Re: Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
#113As you target also European users you should look into the cookie consent - continue browsing the site as accepting cookies is no consent.
I'm European, and don't want to see any cookie consent banners/popups ever. They are awful. If you don't want cookies, your browser has a perfectly fine setting to disable them.
Re: Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
#114The 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 to bring their audience? Even then I think you need a good home page experience to hook those listeners.
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#115As you target also European users you should look into the cookie consent - continue browsing the site as accepting cookies is no consent.
I'm European, and don't want to see any cookie consent banners/popups ever. They are awful. If you don't want cookies, your browser has a perfectly fine setting to disable them.
And IANAL but AIUI most of those banners are illegal anyways; just browsing the site isn't consent and you're generally not allowed to force the issue unless the cookies in question are actually functionally useful to the user. At least I think that's how it works, I'm really not a lawyer and this isn't something that I pay much attention to.
Re: Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
#116A few challenges I think you should consider:
1. People do their podcast listening on other platforms/players - what's the incentive for them to comment/post on Podbabble?
2. Podcasts have existing community/discussion on other platforms (FB, Discord, etc) that are free - what would motivate them to pay this service?
3. Could you demonstrate that Podbabble drives growth/downloads? That would motivate hosts and podcast marketers
Re: Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
#117$29/mo seems high for the vast majority of podcasts, which are labors of love run on shoestring budgets. Of course, it's peanuts for the high traffic sites. Did you consider a Dropbox-like pricing model, e.g., free for low-traffic sites?
Especially if podcasters will bring their audience a free tier can boost growth. Then charge for power tools. Find the things that professional podcasters need that amateur podcasters don't and charge for those.
Re: Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
#118Also see FanFare, the metafilter site for discussing podcasts (and movies, TV, and books): https://fanfare.metafilter.com. Costs $5 for a lifetime membership.
Re: Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes
#119The 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,…
This is good and what is needed. These feeds bring people in who aren’t specifically seeking to discuss an episode of a podcast they like.
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#120When I search for "Absolutely Mental" and click on any season, it leads to this error page: https://podbabble.com/podcast/undefined