Fountain Podcast App
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Discover, share and support podcasts - powered by Bitcoin
Nick Malster
Fountain Radio — A community station for music - powered by Bitcoin
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Add your tracks to the queue, discover new music, support the artists directly and hang out with others listeners in the live chat. For artists, it's the ideal launchpad for your music. For listeners, it's the perfect companion for a day at the office.
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Nick Malster
Hey Product Hunt 👋 Nick from Fountain here! In the last year, artists have started publishing their music to bitcoin enabled RSS feeds so that fans can support them directly as they listen on apps like Fountain. Under the value for value system, music is made freely available everywhere and fans can pay as much or as little as they want. This gives independent artists the opportunity to earn much more than the $0.003 they get for every stream on Spotify. This model may well be the answer to the problematic streaming royalties system used today in the music industry. However we still need more discovery tools to help new releases reach a large audience and showcase the diverse catalogue of music out there waiting to be found. So we had an idea. Introducing: Fountain Radio We built Fountain Radio to help great music get discovered and give the community a place to enjoy it together. Here’s how it works: 💻 Log in with your Fountain account on desktop or mobile. You can also log in with Nostr using the Alby browser extension. ⚡️ Listen to the track currently playing and boost to support. Fountain takes a 1% split and the rest goes to the artist. ➕ Add a track to the queue for 100 sats (which is around five cents). You can search for any track in Podcast Index. 🔺 Upvote tracks to move them to the front of the queue. The track with the most sats will play next. ❤️ Save your favourite tracks to your library. Listen to your latest discoveries again in the Fountain app. 💬 Join the live chat and hang out with other listeners and artists. You can post in the chat for free and see all recent activity. There are a couple of different services that you can use to publish your music to an RSS feed and make it available in apps like Fountain, including Wavlake and RSS Blue. We hope you enjoy trying out Fountain Radio - we would love to get your feedback on the experience! Thanks 🙏