Hey I’m Travis, CEO of Repod, an all-in-one podcast app/community platform that helps podcasters to turn their listeners into a community. Repod is like Substack/Patreon, but for podcasts.
We're a young company that recently raised a pre-seed round. We are looking for a full stack engineer that will take on a CTO/cofounder type of role. The ideal person is someone who’s familiar with building, iterating, and launching things of their own. Repod started as a mobile iOS/Android app but your role will primarily be working on a web version of Repod.
Tech stack:
Web: Next.js + Redux
iOS/Android podcast app : React Native, Firebase, Swift/Java (we have a native audio player)
Hey I'm Travis Osterhaus, co-creator of Repod, a podcast discovery app. Funny story I found my cofounder Emmett Harper from a HN post a few years back with this post→ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075337
Annnd here we are two years later sharing what we've created — Repod! If you're anything like us and are always on the hunt for a good podcast recommendation then Repod is for you :) Thanks to the HN community for helping bring our podcast app to life. We're live on Product Hunt today so feel free to check us out → https://www.producthunt.com/posts/repod-2-0
I couldn't agree more. For the last 2 years I've been building a podcast app that solves this problem called Repod -> https://repod.io
It's a full fledged social podcast app that enables people to comment + tag/categorize episodes. Would be super curious to hear your thoughts on the app.
> >As to his idea, I would pay for this right now.
Thanks for the compliments, made my day :)
>> Music is evergreen whereas many (most?) Podcasts are not
Good feedback and something I have given quite a bit of thought too. I agree to some extinct however I would take the other side and say that the majority of podcasts are evergreen (or at least have a long shelf life) such as story or research shows like This American Life, RadioLab or interview types like The Tim Ferriss Show, Joe Rogan Experiment. The minority of podcasts that are not evergreen would be current affair or political types of shows - which I agree may not be a good fit for this.
>> You'd learn more about me by seeing an hours worth of my spotify plays compared to seeing that i listened to a one hour podcast about basketball
This is where Repod is trying to come in. I don't see myself wanting to see an hours worth of tracks that you listened, I may play one of two of your songs but it would likely end at that. In fact that would inundate my feed if I am following multiple users who also listened to the same amount of tracks. Rather, if you listen to 3x podcasts a week then that would be much easier to scroll through in a feed of many users that you follow.
Podcast episodes offer much more depth as well. Being a basketball fan I would want to know if your basketball podcast was worth the 1 hour long listen, or have a conversation with you about it (i.e. if the episode compared MJ vs Lebron then I might comment on your feed with my own thoughts - or see what you thought about it), or if I really liked it then I tend to share episodes via text with my group of friends/family.
Travis here, I'll let you know if this works or not :)
The reason I am trying this approach is that I don't have a big (or any) connections to an app co-founder so I have been looking for alternatives to finding one and this is one option Jeremy suggested. We'll see how it goes!