Charissa Pilster

I was a Stitcher user for over a decade. After trying at least 10 other apps, Podurama is where I’ve landed. It still has some improvements to match some of my favorite Stitcher features, but surpasses others. The key thing it has is sorting new episodes by my top podcast. They have a default of 20 episodes, but if I set it to 1, it keeps me on the newest! The UX of auto play could use some work, as I still have to fumble around to find the play button, but it still works! The ability to change the speed podcasts playback in Carplay is another issue. I have to dig for this to slow them down or speed them up some times (I usually listen to them at 1.4x-2x) I love that you can put multiple tags on Podcasts and group them, that you can share groups with others, there is an ability to see recently played and the ability to rate episodes! Looking forward to spending the next 10+ years on Podurama.

I'm split on this. I have been a paid subscriber for about a month and a half now and I had one interview with a recruiter. It wasn't a great fit, although it was one that I had selected manually. I didn't make the next round. I'm debating if paying to have more applications submitted in the month is the answer, or if I should just quit and continue a more targeted approach. For the time, I'll probably keep the basic subscription, because there are many roles I'm not applying to otherwise. There were 152 applications submitted and 6 were not able to be submitted because the role was already filled. Of those 95 were selected by me and 57 were selected by Sonara. Sometimes I had to dig deep to find good titles to apply for, and sometimes when I was short on time I'd grab more general selections. I used ChatGPT to do the analysis. Sonara just lists the jobs, but doesn't give you the data. I feel like the price is a little high for something that should be managed by an AI which is still in beta. For the role I did get an interview for, there is no way to provide feedback that I made it to the next round. You'd think this would help with the AI learning. Also there is no easy way to provide feedback to the development team, which for a product in Beta, I'd think they would want that. After I find my next role, I may continue using Sonara to help me apply to titles that are a bit of a stretch. Overall this is a time saver and adds a little more authenticity over LinkedIn's "Easy Apply". If it's where I land a job from, or I start seeing the interview count go up, then it could definitely get to 5 stars.