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Overcast 2.0 — A powerful yet simple audio podcast player
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Really fascinated by the patronage model. Internet patronage is in its infancy, really excited to see how it develops
@zackshapiro I haven't seen other patronage experiments get much traction. It will be interesting to see how it works for @marcoarment.
@mijustin fair. Patreon is an interesting company if you've never heard of them. I think it could be a great model that kind of forks off of crowdfunding since many people are pretty comfortable with it now
I use Overcast every day and bought the premium! The Smart Speed feature has saved me over 3 hours of time (super cool to see). Thanks for the awesome app, keep it up!
Sidenote, favorite startup podcasts to listen to on my Overcast app:
The Startup Chat with @steli and @hnshah
The Rocketship Podcast (@michaelsacca)
Startup School Radio (@harris)
The App Store listing on what's new in 2.0:
- Streaming
- Chapters
- Storage management
- Icon badge option
- Play-by-priority option
- Smart Speed now dynamically adjusts to quiet voices
- Lots of bugs fixed, including playlist reordering and storage growth
- Tons of little improvements and optimizations
Also, all features are now free. A new optional monthly patronage is available.
@stewartjarod and never will be. Marco's discussed this on ATP and he has no interest
*grumpy mode on* Jeez, ProductHunt, fix the posting process. I tried to post this but was redirected to the Overcast 1.0 page, Viraf posted this with a different URL: https://www.producthunt.com/tech... and got four upvotes (including mine) and now this pops up. */grumpy mode off*
Besides that: I hope to see that Marco makes a solid living on the sales of Overcast. Payed for the extra features 'cause its one of the finest podcast clients on iOS planet.
This is my favorite podcast app. Its new business model is quite interesting. In short-term it would definitely be a success, I'm a bit worried for the long term though.
Also the podcast recommendation feature is quite interesting.
p.s. Overcast actually shows how many people had become patrons today :)
Just gave it a try, not sure how could I live without smart speed and 1.2x, this is my new podcast app
After playing a bit with the app I would only change one thing, as a listener when I'm picking an episode to listen I always read the show notes to see if it's worthy, usually podcast descriptions are long so I feel a popup isn't adequate for reading title + description.
Just an Idea to explore: As a podcaster something I would love is the ability to get patrons per episode, it's a way to get revenue and I wouldn't mind giving a % to the owner of the platform ;)
@crisgarner Amazing, we (@adorilabs) have the exact same idea. Monetizing podcasts, especially in "gentler" ways (such as your per episode patronage vs. say "harder" micropayments and some other ideas we are working on). Would love to stay in touch.
All New version of Overcast. From the launch post - "It’s mostly a major under-the-hood improvement, with relatively few user-facing changes". He's also made all the features free, which is pretty exciting.
It's worth paying for the extra features -- they will save you a few minutes on every podcast you listen to
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