Psyched to have TapeWrite featuring the Ghost Influence Podcast and making the stories shared more accessible through their beautifully interface. This is a crucial tool for podcasters to reach non-auditory learners.
@tapefinder@liebergabor Awesome stuff! It's very ineteractive and will def change the way you listen to audio, podcasts. Looking forward to more..Great stuff guys!
@varun3@liebergabor thanks! I see you are an Angel, we are raising our seed round now. Incorporated in London UK, 100% capital owned by the founding team.
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@tapefinder@liebergabor Yea..we have done investments in many startups..what kind of investments are you looking at?
One comment about our mission:
We want to eliminate the need for any investment in tech, and any worries about setting up a payment system for publishers. We want to constantly add new features that make the listening experience more engaging. We want to help publishers forget about everything that is not their main work: creating great content and engaging their audience. All for free.
I really like the concept. To be perfectly honest I'm not really into podcasts because there's a massive effort involved in downloading and listening to them, and it's hard to know when it's worth the effort. A lot of podcast buzz is manufactured, and a lot of podcasts also have a lot of "fluff" since they're trying to fill time. Knowing not just which podcasts are capturing people's attention--but also which parts--is super helpful.
@tprophet Thanks for the feedback. Discovery is indeed a hard nut to crack and we are doing our best to make the experience better on TapeWrite. We are featuring new tapes every day so make sure you check back regularly - I am sure you will find something that will not only grab your attention, but make you fall in love with the format.
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This is a great idea.
Too much of my podcasting experience is of the "listen and forget it" type. I mostly listen to podcasts during my commute/exercise. I hear some great thoughts, actionnable pieces advice, beautiful quotes... but forget them as soon as I am done with the episode.
I feel the main value of this product lies in the ability to annotate a podcast. Saving a small portion of it for later review. Just like you would highlight an insightful quote on Medium. There is no way to do that currently with OverCast, Stitcher or iTunes.
There are two big problems with building such a product :
1) Content sourcing (Basically, you'd have to build a whole new podcasting app from scratch, or, like TapeWrite, force users to manually upload audio files, which I feel involves way too much friction.)
2) Content annotation : most of the listening takes place on the go, when your hands are busy. (A cool way to do that would be to use the media buttons of your headphones, a "double tap pause to annotate" type of feature, that would record the past 15 seconds of content for later review.)
I wanted to build a similar product but was put off by having to build a whole podcasting app from scratch. Definitely looking forward to seeing how you expand on this product : a massive potential right here :)
@theoblochet This might just be the most valuable feedback we've received so far and I'm extremely thankful for it. The "listen and forget it" experience - as you wrote - was also our main pain point and the hope of changing this experience for the better for people like you is what keeps us going with every day. Thanks for signing up - we will keep you posted about our journey of exploiting this "massive potential" :)
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