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Fountain Podcast App — Discover, share and support podcasts - powered by Bitcoin
Fountain is a feature-rich Podcasting 2.0 app and community on iOS and Android. Support your favourite shows as you listen and join in the conversation with other fans. Discover new shows through clips or playlists and earn rewards for listening and sharing.
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@nmshhhh skip silence coming very soon! we have it working on Android just finishing up iOS.
It’s a killer podcast app adopting all the latest podcasting standards that I’ve been actively using for the past year. Plus it’s a UK based product which is rare in this industry. Give it a go and hook me up at https://fountain.fm/si
I LOVE this app. I have been a user for the past year or so. I would love to see the small video for those files that have it (similar to some other popular podcast platforms).
Fountain has been my default podcasting app for a long time now. It's a sleeping giant for podcast enthusiasts. The value-for-value model of paying podcasters directly, including at the point in time that they said something that resonated with you, is incredibly cool. It feels like the future of content monetisation and UGC. Don't skip this app!
Fountain for sure one of my favorite podcasting apps and THE app that drives innovation in the podcasting space!
The new podcasting 2.0 features are huge and everyone who likes podcasts should follow this closely an must try Fountain - it's clearly a game changer in the space!
Can you explain a little more about the whole "listen to earn" business model? Why/how do I earn?
@piersonmarks
Users generate most of the value created by tech platforms - we want to reward that value so we give a portion of our revenue through ads and transaction fees back to users in the form of daily rewards. Every day you have a chance to earn on Fountain and can earn more by listening to promoted content that podcasters pay for.
The earning mechanic is also great for onboarding because it allows users to earn a few sats and send their first payment to a podcaster for free.
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The clipping and Podcasting2.0 micropayment value transfer models are really brought to life in Fountain. I've switched to it being my main podcast app and it has me thinking about audio in an entirely different way. Keep up with the innovation!
Hey Product Hunt - Oscar here from Fountain!
Why are we building Fountain?
The podcast listening experience hasn't really changed in any meaningful way in the last decade. Podcast players look and feel the same as they did - and the mechanics of discovering new episodes still happens outside of the app you listen on. A big reason for this is that the RSS Feeds - the spec that defines what a podcast is and how it's distributed - have not changed.
The Podcasting 2.0 movement changes this. Setup by Adam Curry (one of the inventors of podcasting), Podcasting 2.0 is pushing the RSS Podcast Spec into the future with new tags that enable the features you see in the Fountain App:
- direct support payments from listener to creator without leaving the app
- music podcasts that let you listen to the full songs and save them to your library
- streaming money per minute - with wallet switching that directs the money to whatever song is currently playing
- searchable transcripts that follow along with the audio
- social clipping that lets you save and share the best insights
- playlists that let you save any kind of content
- in-app micropayments that surface the best content based on a value signal rather than an attention signal
Fundamentally we believe that attention-driven content discovery algorithms are bad for both consumers and creators. Youtube videos keep getting longer, creators need to feed the algorithm with regular content to stay relevant, and outrage generates the most views. Media platforms use the attention signal for their algorithms because that's all they have. With micropayments we can surface content based on a value signal that we believe will fix these broken incentives. On Fountain the content that gets surfaced is the content that other listeners find valuable - nothing else.
If you're interested in helping push forward open podcasting - or want to see how value driven discovery works in the context of podcasts and music - please checkout Fountain and give me a follow! https://fountain.fm/merryoscar
If you have any feedback about the app or think we're missing something in terms of features please feel free to comment here or DM me on Twitter!
Thanks! 🙏
Using attention as the currency of the Internet has led to all kinds of misaligned incentives and broken ad based business models. Individuals receiving value paying creators directly (Value4Value) is a much better system for everyone involved. See this excellent piece: https://dergigi.com/threads/atte...
If these ideas resonate with you, then you should absolutely use and support Fountain, which is at the vanguard of this revolutionary movement!
And here's a longer piece detailing a beautiful vision of a Value4Value web: https://dergigi.com/2022/12/18/a...
Really enjoy using the Fountain app to listen to my favorire podcast. It is very easy to use and there's nothing better than receiving some Sats while listening. #FixTheMoneyFixTheWorld #Bitcoin
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