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Listen App

The first social network for podcast listeners

Voice-chat with others who just listened to the same episode. Connect, hang out and even interact with podcast hosts.

All posting is w/ voice and transcribed.

Chat with podcasters such as Jordan Harbinger, John Lee Dumas, & Pat Flynn and many others!

Launch tags:

iOS•User Experience•Tech

Launch Team

Paul Mikhaylenko

Bloom

Maker

Hey there PH! 👋 🐈 Paul here, founder @ Listen App I know this is a strange time to launch products, but perhaps this will make quarantine more interesting. Listen App is a new type of social network. Just as podcasting is intimate; we're extending the human voice into your social interactions. Your app will come pre-installed with a few shows: Pandemic Checkin, Remotely Possible, and Market Snacks. The producers of these shows are looking to interact with you and create new episodes incorporating your voices! Podcasting needs a new social network: 1. Traditional social platforms don't interface with audio (ex. you can’t post a link to an episode because everyone uses a different player). 2. When you listen to an episode, it’s extremely difficult to find other like-minded people who have also listened to it for you to discuss. 3. Podcasts subscribers are some of the best naturally forming communities that are completely untapped. Meanwhile, podcasters are eager but don’t have a good way to engage with and build communities for their listeners. So we took all of our lessons from or previous podcast app and designed something that I’m incredibly pleased to present to you! Here's what makes Listen App different: 🎙 👄 We used voice+transcription instead of text for all posting/commenting. This allowed us to maintain the intimacy of the voice not just for listening but also for discussing. 💄📲Also, we're obsessed with product design and were fortunate to have some of the best designers working on this. 🤝🗣Listen App is uniquely bridging the gap between podcasters and listeners. Many fantastic podcasters joined the platform before we even launched. I can’t wait to read your feedback and hear your voices on the app! Claim your handle to get the good ones :) Let’s start to create a community of podcast listeners and geek out 🤓Btw, thanks @bramk for the hunt!

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5yr ago

Bram Kanstein (@bramk)

Idea Stash

Hunter

@paulmikhaylenko boom!

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5yr ago

Paul Mikhaylenko

Bloom

Maker

@bramk, you're the best!

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5yr ago

Yasser Ansari

Polymer

@paulmikhaylenko congrats on the launch! Love the idea behind it and appreciate how well you executed on the overall experience. Looking forward to seeing how the conversations evolve around episodes.

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5yr ago

Paul Mikhaylenko

Bloom

Maker

@urbanorganism Thanks you! Yes, I imagine it like sitting around the table with other listeners and having an asynchronous chat :)

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5yr ago

Brandon Uttley

Go For Launch

@paulmikhaylenko - I may be missing something but how do I interact/talk with the podcast hosts?

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5yr ago

John Lee Dumas

FIRED UP to be a supporter and advisor for Listen App. More than ever, podcast hosts and listeners need the ability to engage, and Listen App is the best opportunity for us to do just that. Love it!

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5yr ago

Paul Mikhaylenko

Bloom

Maker

@john_lee_dumas John, you've been incredibly helpful. Honored to have you part of this project! 🙌

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5yr ago

Lyondhür Picciarelli

Very VERY cool concept. Definitely giving it a go. Congratulations on the first tutorial episode with your kid. That was nice. Nothing but love for this project so far.

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5yr ago

Lyondhür Picciarelli

One annoying thing though.. although I’ve skipped choosing interests and podcast to import only my subscriptions, the app subscribed me to a LOT of podcasts that I have no interest into nor did I want on my list anyway. And it’s really slow and hard to unsubscribe them (one by one, no batch actions). Aaargh!

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5yr ago

Paul Mikhaylenko

Bloom

Maker

@lyondhur thank you for your kind words of support! Apologies for the inconvenience.. but the shows we pre-installed are part of a campaign to give our early users a starting place for interaction on the app.

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5yr ago

Lyondhür Picciarelli

@paulmikhaylenko it would be cool to be notify the user in advance. It took me a while to delete them all and I wouldn’t really want to add any of them regardless. It feels a bit like forced help if I may say so..? I’ll be sure to reinstall the app in the future to see how it evolves. As of now, sticking to my other app and not transitioning. All the best. PS: Not sure if this is a general issue, but it hogged quite a lot of my battery as well. iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 11 Pro, on both.

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