Making an IH podcast app RE: episode #274

This is what the episode said:

• IH has a community of marketing, sales, and engineering
• What if IH creates a podcasting app that aggregates good episodes
• People that make podcasts might want to be featured there
• Have community features like comments and likes per episode
• The app might have to be something small that grows bigger

My Feedback (as a person that makes/made podcast apps):

• Communities have done this before. Relay.fm. Adam Corolla.
• It's really hard to get people to switch podcast apps. Ask yourself how often you've personally switched podcast apps.
• Podcast apps require a lot of features to be viable (CarPlay, sleep timer, etc).
• Podcasts are built on RSS and authors can change data at any point which is a pain. For example, when a host changes their MP3 link/content because of dynamic ads.
• Breaker tried social podcasting and didn't really succeed. Castbox also has some social features.

My opinion: don't do it unless you're willing to support it for years.

If you're still thinking of doing it, then I'll answer whatever technical questions you guys have.

cc:@csallen