Hello PH, it is a pleasure to be here. This is a 100% bootstrapped MVP we conceived last September and have been coding since. The idea is to get the best of podcasting and Medium and put it together. I'll be drafting a FAQ in the next minutes but I'd love your feedback in the mean time.
@tapefinder really liked how light the tapes are and interface also is well focused on content.
One feature request though: option to keep tape playing once we switched to read comments.
@tapefinder wonderful! Congrats on your launch. I think your new direction with gated content is smart. So if I'm to summarize correctly, you're looking to build YouTube Red for podcasts?
I definitely like this idea. Though I will say this, until you get lots of users I'd rather invest in my own mobile app with its own gated content.
So will you continue uploading episodes of The Pitch and stripping them of ads? When do I get the first check 😉
I'm kidding, but I am curious what are your next steps?
@joshmuccio we have changed our back end so we can actually pull from your RSS. Will do that from the next episode. Yes, youtube red is a great analogy.
You are a tech savvy person who can think of having your own app and a great marketeer who can find advertisers and read beautiful ads. Many people we talk to are neither of those and just want to take the relationship with their 10 loyal listeners to a new level.
Our unfair andvantage is besides a superior format, that we are in a very affluent area (north Europe) where:
a) people are used and willing to pay for great content
b) spoken audio is still consumed as in the 20th century
c) everyone has a smartphone.
Congrats @tapefinder I have been following some of your thoughts in ssg and its cool to see someone committed to is product and the solution that it represents!
@jrdbacosta - yeah @tapefinder is a gem. One of the rock stars on SSG for sure. Through him, the community is learning. And he asks all the great questions to advisors, investors, and other founders. We are lucky and proud to have him at SSG.
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