... Thanks to everyone who supported us. We met a crucial milestone and decided to make the app completely free. You ...

... Parasocial launched here yesterday as a podcast player. Thank you for the comments and the upvotes. The next major release adds the second social layer, and I would rather shape it with you than announce it as finished. What is coming: Public playlists. Any playlist you build in the app can be published as a page anyone can open, follow, and play from, with or without the app. Curator profiles. A handle, a display name, a short ... ... smart playlist that follows along with what you're listening to. As you add more episodes to it, your followers get the same. So it's "yes and". Comment from Paul Geller(@paulgeller): Curate is now live in Parasocial

... Comment from Sai Tharun Kakirala(@sai_tharun_kakirala): This is one of the most honest marketing posts I've seen here. The "cost of living in Netherlands" going viral and converting into Starnus users is a perfect example of parasocial trust. You didn't sell anything you gave people a reason to be curious about you as a person. When they checked your profile and found a product, it felt like a discovery, not an ad. We've had similar ...