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Leela — Quickly find and play podcast episodes
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@rrhoover Appreciate kind words Ryan! Leela is an attempt to discover content (podcast episodes) first & then subscribe rather than other way round.
I'm a podcast junkie and daily am sharing podcasts and episodes with others, something the podcast app on ios doesn't make easy or seemless. Hope this does, then I'll be telling everyone to download it :)
@kurtwalker in this version of the app, we have addressed 'search' aspect of podcasts. we are coming to sharing next which is also broken as you say. Will be very helpful if we can get 5-10 mins of your time to understand your use case better. thank you!
@sandejain1 Happy to help. Mostly comes down to the podcast app doesnt make it easy to share the exact episode you are currently listen, instead sending a link to the podcast. etc.
@kurtwalker Yes that's the base use case -- but what if the person at receiving end doesn't have the same podcast app as you have.. do you think they'd prefer a web link that they can click and listen? As an app developer, I would prefer sending them a link clicking which will download the app and once they open the app it automatically opens up the podcast episode that was shared.
@kurtwalker my email is sandeep@leelalabs.com in case you would like to connect offline. Thanks again!
Very cool, definitely a need from this. Seems fast.
What determines the ranking in the search results? Is it pulling all podcasts?
Did a search for Dennis Yu for instance, but it showed only 3 podcasts (older).
@mikekawula Thanks for your kind words Mike! #ranking: use an algorithm that calculates relevance score based on where the match happens (episode title match is considered better than episode description match), date of publishing, publish date, engaged listens, rating etc. #all podcasts: we have indexed over 2M podcast episodes for now and are indexing more and more. We want to be careful about quality of content for now. Eventually we will index entire podcast world like google does and only bubble up the good podcast episodes. #Dennis_Yu_search: I looked around and don't see any new ones though I see that we were missing some old ones which are now added. Thanks again for your kind interest! PS: just looked @socialquant... I may need that :)
@sandejain1 Thanks that makes tons of sense. Good luck and thanks for taking a look at @thesocialquant Let me know if I can help with anything. Cheers!
Joining the party late! Thanks much Andrew for Hunting us! I created Leela as I felt there was no product (not even an attempt) to go beyond channel subscription in podcasts and there is so much awesome content to hear. With this release, we have attempted to create a "GOOGLE OF PODCASTS" -- we have even created a google news alert like feature for podcasts so that you can be notified (daily) about the newly published podcast content matching your interest.
@paulprins Absolutely! Android App in the works (about 70% done)... will let you know when ready
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