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Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

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Looks very nice. I see Windbreaker Podcast featured in those screenshots on the App Store listing. A Z̶e̶r̶o̶ ̶P̶u̶n̶c̶t̶u̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Fully Ramblomatic fan?

Yep!

Yahtzee is one of my favorite writers. I need to get back into the last couple books of his I haven't read.

Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

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Looks cool! If I may, a couple of feature suggestions: 1. You mentioned it already but bookmarks. In particular bookmarks that can be added through iOS Shortcuts (so we can each build whatever crazy automation we need) and that can be exported (so we can keep LARPing productivity in our Obsidian vaults). 2. An "undo" function, somehow. I know this is weird but I've misclicked the seek bar so many times (esp. in the l…

Noted! There is already an undo function, though. If you seek, an undo button pops up. Also, if you go to settings, there's a "History" view where you can also undo from.

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Thanks! It's built with Chakra UI[1] so I can't take full credit for it. EDIT: Oh, I just realized you might be referring to my blog, in which case I _can_ take credit for that :P. Thanks again! [1]: https://www.chakra-ui.com/

yeah, really good looking page, congrats! btw - out of curiosity - what tool did you use to create app screenshots for AppStore?

Thanks! I used Pixelmator Pro to put the images together. I just made one long image that I cropped at the end into the screenshots you see on the App Store. For the iPhone templates, I think I exported a template from Sketch, but I later found out that Pixelmator also has them (you can find them under the Mockups category in the New dialog).

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I don't know if this is a good place for feature requests, but the only thing keeping me from switching to this at at the moment is download settings per podcast. For example, some podcasts I don't want to miss an episode and I want them all downloaded. Other podcasts I only check in on occasionally and would only want the latest episode to be kept on device. I subscribe to a lot of podcast and downloading and keepin…

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Can it handle feeds that aren't available on the public internet?

I have a personal feed that I can connect to over TailScale. But I've found that most podcast clients have a server-side component, which means their backend server must be able to access the feed.

I tried adding my private feed to Podcatcher and am getting "Server Error (500)".

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Where does one learn how to interface with the podcast directories? Who provides free downloads? I had heard something about rss at one point. Couldn’t find a good app for phosh and was thinking of writing one.

Check out this, it might help you with downloading podcasts to the filesystem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42841416
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