Fountain is a feature-rich Podcasting 2.0 app and community on iOS and Android. Support your favourite shows as you listen and join in the conversation with other fans. Discover new shows through clips or playlists and earn rewards for listening and sharing.
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Fountain Radio
A community station for music - powered by Bitcoin
Add your tracks to the queue, discover new music, support the artists directly and hang out with others listeners in the live chat. For artists, it's the ideal launchpad for your music. For listeners, it's the perfect companion for a day at the office.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Nick from Fountain here!
In the last year, artists have started publishing their music to bitcoin enabled RSS feeds so that fans can support them directly as they listen on apps like Fountain.
Under the value for value system, music is made freely available everywhere and fans can pay as much or as little as they want. This gives independent artists the opportunity to earn much more than the $0.003 they get for every stream on Spotify.
This model may well be the answer to the problematic streaming royalties system used today in the music industry. However we still need more discovery tools to help new releases reach a large audience and showcase the diverse catalogue of music out there waiting to be found.
So we had an idea.
Introducing: Fountain Radio
We built Fountain Radio to help great music get discovered and give the community a place to enjoy it together.
Here’s how it works:
💻 Log in with your Fountain account on desktop or mobile. You can also log in with Nostr using the Alby browser extension.
⚡️ Listen to the track currently playing and boost to support. Fountain takes a 1% split and the rest goes to the artist.
➕ Add a track to the queue for 100 sats (which is around five cents). You can search for any track in Podcast Index.
🔺 Upvote tracks to move them to the front of the queue. The track with the most sats will play next.
❤️ Save your favourite tracks to your library. Listen to your latest discoveries again in the Fountain app.
💬 Join the live chat and hang out with other listeners and artists. You can post in the chat for free and see all recent activity.
There are a couple of different services that you can use to publish your music to an RSS feed and make it available in apps like Fountain, including Wavlake and RSS Blue.
We hope you enjoy trying out Fountain Radio - we would love to get your feedback on the experience!
Thanks 🙏
Curiosity for micro payments got me in the door.
The simple sharing of clips is what I stayed for.
I don't want to send my friends a 4h Lex Fridman pod, I just want to send them the clip which relates to my point.
Sure, there are always things that need improving for any early product.
But the seamless introduction of "money flow" inside an audio experience app, that's really novel and makes so much sense.
Nobody pulled it off so far.
And for the sake of content creators I hope Fountain keeps growing.
We need less comment spam and more direct monetisation mechanisms for content creators.
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