Polypods

Product Hunt for podcasts

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Product Hunt for podcasts

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Nominate, discover, and vote on top daily podcast episodes. Content suggestions by the community, for the community.

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Cool idea like many others, but using podcasts instead. My only concern is why didn't you purchase a domain name? Definitely would be more professional and easier for users to remember the URL.

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6yr ago

Polypods

Maker

@john_hayes2 great point! we actually did but ran into some URL forwarding issues when posting.... check out trypolypods.com for now!!

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6yr ago

This product is super helpful, as an avid podcast listeners this is a great way to expand the breath content I listen to! How are you determining what podcasts to feature for users to then vote on or does the community suggest podcasts that are then voted on?

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6yr ago

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Maker

@rohan_trivedi1 love that its helpful! and we're getting suggestions by the community through a simple typeform. We wanted to keep it quick and easy for now.. we have a future idea to have users directly share/copy+paste a podcast link to a submission tool and have the podcast title, description, etc. automatically scrapped. basically just a quicker workflow. if you have anything good you listened to recently, shoot it into the Nominations! :D https://polypods.typeform.com/to...

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6yr ago

Love this right now! Will there be categories? I the type to segment my podcasts into news, business, random.

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6yr ago

Polypods

Maker

@a_shrestha1 we might venture into categories in the future if enough interest but for this version, we wanted to keep it pretty close to "random" as possible.. That is why we chose to be episode-centric. So people can take a short break from their "go-to" categories and enjoy a one-off episode about... fishing? or cooking? or video games? lots of good content out there! :)

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6yr ago

Congrats on the launch! What do you guys think will be the biggest challenge for Polypods moving forward?

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6yr ago

Congrats on launching! I personally have felt problem a bunch of times where I know that a channel I wouldn't normally listen to might have a handful of episodes I'd want to give a listen. How do you plan on fostering a community on the platform?

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6yr ago

BetterList

Great work guys! In the future, do you plan to turn this into a community where users can create accounts, add comments, and interact with each other?

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6yr ago

Polypods

Maker

Hey PH! Super excited to be sharing Polypods with you. This is our first time posting and we’re excited to join the community! Our Story Yash and I started listening to more podcasts since quarantine started. Both of us are active in keeping up with tech and investing so finding those podcasts was easy. But we could only listen to so many startup stories and investment insights before getting siloed. We wanted to venture into other categories with one-off episodes without having to commit to an entire channel. Our Observations Spotify recently announced Top Charts but showed the same content we already knew (i.e. Joe Rogan & NPR) and didn’t show us good episodes - only entire channels. We scoured PH too but found no tools that were simple, no-account-required, and embraced community suggestions. We thought having only podcast creators upload would really limit the potential for discovery. Reddit’s r/podcasts came close to what we wanted but took way too much effort to filter through and find the actual podcast recommendation. Take a more detailed read on the About page on our website. Our Solution Everyday there will be 10 new podcast episodes that were nominated by the community (click here). If you came across a good episode, we want to hear about it and share it with others! Everyday, the top 2 rated podcasts will be added to our "Records" doc on our website. This was a scrappy 2 week build for us so looking forward to any feedback and questions from you all! We really want to see if there is a need for a podcast “enthusiast” community (creators & listeners) and would love to keep on building if there’s interest.

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6yr ago

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