Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform

The help page (link is buried in the footer) has a more useful description than the home page.<p>&quot;How does Capiche FM work?<p>Phone calls, broadcast live online.<p>You start a broadcast, Capiche calls your phone, and you go live. Then everything you say gets live-streamed to anyone who’s dialed into your show.<p>Fans and friends (and foes, if you want) can call a Capiche FM show’s number to listen on a phone call (yup: every show has its own phone number), or just open a new tab and stream the show online from the show&#x27;s page. Hosts can invite anyone on air to chat live, too.&quot;<p>EDIT: Honestly your help page is great. Concise description about what it is and how to use it. You should consider bringing some of that content to the homepage. The skateboarding heart person is neat, but I&#x27;d rather you tell me about the product.

Hi everyone! Thanks for checking out Capiche FM. It&#x27;s so early that we haven&#x27;t yet come up with the best way to feature shows on the homepage, which seems to be a sticking point in some of the first comments on here.<p>Here&#x27;s a public page where you can see some of the shows currently being hosted on Capiche FM: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;capiche.fm&#x2F;discover" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;capiche.fm&#x2F;discover</a><p>And here&#x27;s a link to our changelog which some commenters said describes our product better than the homepage: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;capiche&#x2F;What-s-new-on-Capiche-FM-e56f62fe9d2042868cc6e0a389fdcaf5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;capiche&#x2F;What-s-new-on-Capiche-FM-e56f6...</a><p>Appreciate all the feedback!

You should provide a demo of the service or even allow users to trail the site without having to enter any information to sign up. I will never enter a phone number or email until I&#x27;m satisfied with the product. I have no idea how it will work or what I am getting.

Oh, what a coincidence – I just finished talking on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;capiche.fm&#x2F;saas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;capiche.fm&#x2F;saas</a><p>The idea is rather relaxing because I don&#x27;t own an expensive mic, and my office has an echo. But on Capiche podcasts, the hosts have a meh audio quality too because everybody is talking through a phone call compression. :)<p>I wonder if non-US numbers will appear later because I was lucky to have a US Skype number, otherwise it would be hard to avoid the international fees.

Feedback: I did four years of college radio and have wanted to host my own call-in show since I was a kid, and this is seriously what I&#x27;ve been looking for recently.<p>I do a weekly podcast with my good friend and am going to try it out the next time I record a podcast but I have a couple of thoughts off the bat:<p>1. Using my phone means I can&#x27;t (easily) use my condenser mic and pro headphones like I do with my laptop.<p>2. Rights&#x2F;Distribution: I currently have 100% ownership over the content I create and I can choose where to distribute it because I have the raw files. Your terms seem on the face to be amenable to me being able to pick up and move my content. I&#x27;ll be interested to see if you make the content I send through you available for me to download - or if it&#x27;s required for me to (somehow) also make a recording of my own , which might cause trouble later.<p>I&#x27;m excited for this and think it could be big, and understand it&#x27;s an MVP right now, so plenty to come just a couple things to think about.<p>Awesome!

I think many of your first-time visitors are going to click the hosts&#x27; faces, get confused when nothing happens, and then give up.<p>That should at least take them to a description of the show, and ideally let them listen to a clip.

Could anyone provide a clear explanation as to what this does? I don’t want to give away my phone number. Thank you!

I love the scuffed clubhouse clone vibe! I wanna try this!

If this is Twilio powered, and uses Twilio conferences, it would be limited to 250 participants which seems low for a radio platform. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twilio.com&#x2F;voice&#x2F;conference" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twilio.com&#x2F;voice&#x2F;conference</a>

You need a friend to join you on the call to be able broadcast? I’d have a very hard time doing that, but would love to just talk into the ether solo. Creates an unnecessary network effect barrier IMO.

I was an early user... the spam was so insane that I had to block their number.<p>Be aware.

Can I listen to people without signing up?<p>Also, isn&#x27;t this equivalent to YouTube, Twitch, or whatever streaming platform kids are using these days, without a video feed?

Seems kinda like a party line? (not a fun party, I mean, just... multiple people in the same &#x27;room&#x27; on a phone).

Can&#x27;t stand the quality, but I&#x27;m sure this will be fixed with the iOS app they are building.

Very cool! How are you acquiring users and marketing the service?

Anyone else remember Utterz from around 2008?

&gt; By confirming my info above and clicking &quot;Submit&quot;, I consent to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and to receive personal messages and automated text alerts (which may be marketing in nature) from Capiche FM. Consent not a condition of any purchase. Msg frequency will vary. Msg &amp; data rates may apply. Text STOP to cancel anytime.<p>I would be extremely vary about this service. Not only it explicitly violates GDPR, but it may also substantially increase your phone bill.

I keep hearing about Twilio but what is it?

Looks cool. How did you get feedback from Jason Fried? Just cold-emailed him? Or was he helping in some way?

I was interested in this, then saw this in the terms: &quot;moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) slander, defame, libel, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person; or (iii) cause Capiche to violate any law or regulation; and your User Content could not be deemed by a reasonable person to be objectionable, profane, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, hateful, or otherwise inappropriate.&quot;<p>So - I will suggest that you make whatever export options a thing. If I could auto-export all my data, I might give it a whirl.<p>I had a similar experience looking into anchorFM - looked neat - like what I was needing exactly (like this maybe) - checked the terms and checked out.<p>With today&#x27;s cancel culture what it is, I can&#x27;t see buying into a SaaS that will punt so easily - I don&#x27;t know if export is an option - I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a lockout kind of thing like google does - or if you have time to get your content like wordpress.com does.. but I can build this and not worry about it, other people may want to know.