Hey, I am the founder and developer behind this app.<p>Aside from joining the app because you love podcasts, it may interest you because it has some cool tech behind it. ie) Echo is not a podcast player, but we connect to your podcast player. We give every user their own unique podcast feed, generated with a list of every episode that they want to listen to. This feed can be added to your podcast player just like any other podcast feed. When a user finds an episode on Echo, they just have to tap a button and it will be ready in their podcast player from them to listen to it. Try it out, it's pretty slick in my opinion.<p>Similar solutions have been built, for instance, Patreon generates custom feeds for podcasts which include episodes available only to paid users. However, this is the first time users have the ability to generate a custom podcast feed, for themselves.
I'd think twice about whether "Echo" is a wise thing to call a new app right now. When I read this I immediately thought it was some sort of podcast integration for Amazon Echo, which might tend to suggest Amazon will have a problem with it. Without getting into the merits of any such dispute, I would think that unnecessary litigation with Amazon would probably be something you'd want to avoid!
The is a concept SORELY needed.<p>There is another app called "Breaker" which I think is similar which I have tried. Breaker is a bit buggy and there isn't enough of a network yet to up-vote episodes and make the discovery valuable.<p>Whoever can get a big network of users and some solid auto-suggestion intelligence included will win this space.
Just installed. Everything seems to be stable enough. A few little niggles, on Android, the OPML export is a bit finnicky. I was using Pocket Casts and it pops up a Share menu for you to export so I had to export to my file manager first before then selecting it. The app's interface is functional but could do with some polishing, for example, you can't rearrange your set of favorite podcasts.<p>Biggest annoyance for me thus far is loading speed. It always takes at least a second or so to load up a page. Seems like a small thing but it has an impact overall.
I'm excited to try.<p>I started something similar, almost a "Book Club for Podcasts" that stemmed off this Twitter thread (<a href="https://twitter.com/daveambrose/status/918124906092597248" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/daveambrose/status/918124906092597248</a>). We organize discussions in a Google Group but this looks like it's much more automatic than the manual curation piece we use.
It's pretty difficult to search for this. What exactly do I type in google to find it? `Echo Podcasts` will give me results with the Amazon Echo. It's a great idea, when I saw it, it seemed like a no brainer. If you can rebrand this and release a web app I would be all over it. (If you need help with the web app reach out to me)
Am I the only one that's extremely disappointed there's no Web site to use and only an app?<p>I would have given the site a spin. Maybe it makes a good impression, maybe not; that'd influence whether I then sign-up. I'm not downloading an app just to see if it's any good.
Reminds me of the Hacker News but for podcasts from last year: <a href="https://podcastrank.co" rel="nofollow">https://podcastrank.co</a><p>Thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509835" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509835</a>
This is clever idea. From my first look it appears to be an Instagram-like social network, but with no user generated content. While social graphs themselves have value, I think we have hit an inflection point with users getting tired of sharing their personal content. Personally, I am much more interested in what other people like and have to say about mass media content rather than their selfies or wedding pictures, frankly I just don't give a damn about user generated content and I think I'm not the only one. We need more platforms like this for other types of content such as movies, TV, music and vetted news publishers. Just curious, is the news feed 100% reverse chronological? Do you have any ranking/recommendation algorithm for the discover tab?
Negative aspects:<p>- Twitter auth requests the ability to send posts, an easy no<p>- signing up with email, you require an avatar picture. just use a placeholder<p>- can't test drive anonymously
I want an IMDB of podcasts.<p>More specifically, I want to:<p>1. Enter (or click on) a person’s name, and see every associated podcast episode,<p>2. For any podcast, and podcast episode, see every associated person, including their role (host, guest, producer),<p>3. Search a speech-to-text corpus of the conversations,<p>4. List of sponsors for every episode.
Good job OP, looks slick. The idea of using a custom feed for integration is nice.<p>Unfortunately I can't install it right now (my Android version is too old, eh), but when I finally upgrade I'll definitively try it.
That pesky RSS 0.92 is frustrating for digital entrepreneurs, isn't it? There is a reason the number one paid podcast on Patreon has an anti-capitalist theme. Podcasts are one of the last pieces of media that have not been fallen to algorithms and data collection, but the clock is ticking.
The description on iTunes says "Top Epidodes" which you might want to fix. I like the concept a lot, but you should probably explain it a little more clearly in the description and documentation on your own site.
So far I only see # of echos. I am not interested in finding the most popular podcast or episodes, but rather the highest quality podcast/episodes.
I started looking at Amazon's Trademarks for the word Echo and here are a few I found. I'm not sure if they apply or not but some of them sound very close to podcast related:<p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.1" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.2" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.3" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.4" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.5" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.6" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.7" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.3.236" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.8" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.9" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.10" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.11" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.12" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.13" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.14" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a><p><a href="http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3plkpo.5.15" rel="nofollow">http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...</a>