Cooler
Listen to podcasts....together!
142 followers
Listen to podcasts....together!
142 followers
Podcasts are great, but they are even better together! Cooler is a podcast player that makes listening fun, social, and interactive.
142 followers
142 followers
Cooler
Fable Wizard
Cooler sounds like such a fun and innovative way to bring more social interaction into the podcasting world—it's about time podcasts became more engaging! How do you plan to expand the social features to make the experience even more collaborative, like community discussions or live interaction with creators?
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@jonurbonas Thanks for the kind words Jonas! We started with the foundational stuff to community building - comments, reactions, leaderboards, streaks, and sharing. While it's currently all built around asynchronous interactions, we definitely think there's opportunity to incorporate live interaction and live content like you suggest once we've reached a level of critical mass.
One area we're spending a lot of time thinking about is how to make the comments section even better. We have purposely stayed away from reactions to comments because what we've seen with most social media is that because the reactions are such an easy way to respond to a post, people often write comments that "chase" these reactions to get that dopamine reward. But the comments that tend to get the most reactions are the comments that are more bombastic, brash, and less constructive to meaningful conversation. So that's an area we're keen to figure out how to build in a healthy way.
We have a very robust roadmap, but want to also build alongside our users and take it where the community goes!
Exciting to see social features added to podcasts! 👀
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@shenjun Thanks Jun!! Check it out and feel free to send any feedback our way!
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@shenjun It's what everybody's been waiting for I guess :)
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I am a huge fan of this idea. It is like "social-medialing" podcasting and broadcasting.
If I understood correctly – people can rate and create communities over podcasts from Spotify and big players on the podcast market, right?
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@busmark_w_nika yes!
If the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, it is already on Cooler.
For now people can "rate" podcast episodes in the form of reactions. You can leave as many reactions as you want while you listen to an episode. Others can judge if an episode is popular or not by how many reactions it gets.
Communities are created automatically when you follow a podcast and each episode is a space for the community to comment and interact with each other.
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Thank you for making your tool more clear by explaining the processes :)
Deamoy
Love the vision, Mike! 🎧 Turning podcasting from a solo echo chamber into a live concert vibe is genius.
Cooler sounds like a game-changer for podcasting! The social and interactive features are exactly what podcasts need to become more engaging. How do you plan to integrate feedback from users to improve the app over time?
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@viktoriia_vasylchenko We love getting user feedback and are big believers in building alongside our community. We get people writing in with ideas, but also look at the data and how people are using the product in interesting and unexpected ways and follow that for ideas. But we also try to talk to people we meet who are podcast listeners and just better understand how they engage with podcasts today, and use that as inspiration.
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@viktoriia_vasylchenko This is also something @aleeee has been on the front lines of as our Head of Design, so she might be able to weigh in more on this as well!
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@viktoriia_vasylchenko this is something we're still figuring out. One of the ideas we want to test out is having a Cooler Podcast where we share product updates and open up the convo on upcoming features. We think this can be a great way to use our own product to build alongside the community and get valuable feedback.
Cooler sounds like a great way to bring podcast communities together! The leaderboards and streaks will really motivate listeners to stay connected and keep up with their favorite shows.
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@hanna_kuznietsova Thanks!! That's the idea. It's fun for listeners, and for podcasters, it helps them build even more loyal fans!