Cooler - Podcasts are better together

@pranay12 Exactly! We want people to geek out about their favorite shows with fellow listeners. On Cooler, every episode has its own space where people can easily comment and discuss while listening, kind of like a built-in chat room for each episode.

@aleeee Amazing! Glad to have come across this product

@aleeee  @pranay12 Yes!! Give it a try and let us know what you think! What are the pods you listen to regularly?

@busmark_w_nika yes!

• If the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, it is already on Cooler.

• For now people can "rate" podcast episodes in the form of reactions. You can leave as many reactions as you want while you listen to an episode. Others can judge if an episode is popular or not by how many reactions it gets.

• Communities are created automatically when you follow a podcast and each episode is a space for the community to comment and interact with each other.

@jonurbonas Thanks for the kind words Jonas! We started with the foundational stuff to community building - comments, reactions, leaderboards, streaks, and sharing. While it's currently all built around asynchronous interactions, we definitely think there's opportunity to incorporate live interaction and live content like you suggest once we've reached a level of critical mass.

One area we're spending a lot of time thinking about is how to make the comments section even better. We have purposely stayed away from reactions to comments because what we've seen with most social media is that because the reactions are such an easy way to respond to a post, people often write comments that "chase" these reactions to get that dopamine reward. But the comments that tend to get the most reactions are the comments that are more bombastic, brash, and less constructive to meaningful conversation. So that's an area we're keen to figure out how to build in a healthy way.

We have a very robust roadmap, but want to also build alongside our users and take it where the community goes!

@shenjun Thanks Jun!! Check it out and feel free to send any feedback our way!

@shenjun It's what everybody's been waiting for I guess :)

@onbing Thanks!! Podcasts are such a powerful medium. For me, I spent so much time listening, and when I listen, have so many thoughts and reactions to what I'm listening to, and wanted to chat with other people who also love the same weird pods I loved. Give it a download and let us know what you think!

@feliciana_liu Thanks Feliciana!! Download it and give it a spin and let us know what you think!

@viktoriia_vasylchenko We love getting user feedback and are big believers in building alongside our community. We get people writing in with ideas, but also look at the data and how people are using the product in interesting and unexpected ways and follow that for ideas. But we also try to talk to people we meet who are podcast listeners and just better understand how they engage with podcasts today, and use that as inspiration.

@viktoriia_vasylchenko This is also something @aleeee has been on the front lines of as our Head of Design, so she might be able to weigh in more on this as well!

@viktoriia_vasylchenko this is something we're still figuring out. One of the ideas we want to test out is having a Cooler Podcast where we share product updates and open up the convo on upcoming features. We think this can be a great way to use our own product to build alongside the community and get valuable feedback.

@hanna_kuznietsova Thanks!! That's the idea. It's fun for listeners, and for podcasters, it helps them build even more loyal fans!

@chrismessina Yes I know!!! We've had that integration built and ready to go, but are just waiting for them to approve our app. Unfortunately it's been several months!! 😭 (and thanks for the kind words on design!!! That's the work of the amazing @aleeee )

@emmanuelmchan Thanks for the support. Check out the Clips feature and let us know what you think!

@morgane_prr Morgane, so glad you’re enjoying the app! Appreciate the feedback—after onboarding, you’ll be able to search for any podcast. (If the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, it is already on Cooler) Thanks for giving it a try!

Thank you Kay!!! Give it a go and would love to hear your feedback!

@williamrobertscott Thank you!! While there have been some great independent podcast players with really cool features (shoutout to Overcast, one of my faves), the three main ones have been very slow to innovate. We hope to be a part of introducing more innovation to my favorite medium. Let us know what you think and how it works for you!

@yevheniya_afanasieva Thanks!! Yes, we're particularly excited about Clips. There are so many times where I'd listen to someone say something really funny or inspiring on a pod, and it's just a 30 second segment, but then I'd have to send someone a link to a full episode and tell them to scroll to a certain place, which all feels so clunky. So by letting someone turn it into an animated video of just the part that resonated with them, we hope to make sharing more fun and more frequent!!

@marianna_tymchuk Thanks!! Give it a try, would love to know what features you enjoy and if you have any ideas or feedback!

@nazar_nosanenko Thanks!! What are your favorite podcasts to listen to?

@milosmilosevic Thanks Milos!! Appreciate the kind words and support!! 🙌

@winrey Thanks for the feedback Winrey! Let us know how you feel about the "solitary" aspect after giving it a whirl! And if you have good engineering (or general) podcast recs, let us know so we can all listen together :)