This is really well done. I love how each cast turns into a conversational stream of replies and like Twitter, I can see people turning to Anchor to share their thoughts and debate about timely topics (e.g. politics, the Grammy's, depression).
Are you planning to add a topic or tagging system to categorize these recordings, @mignano?
@rrhoover Thank you, Ryan! Nir, Kristin, and I really appreciate your kind words.
We love the idea of people using Anchor to have real conversations with others about things currently happening in their lives or throughout the world.
Regarding categorization - we're currently supporting #hashtags, which you can add to the caption of an original wave (we currently don't have captions on replies). We are also manually curating waves into a series of topics. You can see (hear) these by going to the Search/Discover section of the app (magnifying glass icon). However, in the near future, we want to make it easier for people to be able to directly contribute to these topics, so they don't have to wait for one us at Anchor HQ to actually hear it and place it into a topic.
And eventually, we want these topics to be personalized for every user. We want to make sure people are always being presented with great waves that we identify as relevant to their interests based on past listening habits.
This is an awesome product. You guys need to bring it to Android ASAP. When Meerkat was launched, it was only for iPhone users. Periscope launched later but they brought in an Android app earlier than Meerkat. Android is huge market. By doing this you can actually bring in a lot of people into your system and got to evaluate things quickly.
@invinciblesaad Muhammad - we're working hard to get to Android asap. Please drop your email into this form and we'll let you know when we're on Android: http://anch.co/anchorandroid
So excited for Anchor to launch! I've been beta testing for a few months and because the comments are the voices of real humans, they are authentic and really make you want to reply. Very different than any other platform I've seen (or heard!). Congrats @mignano and @nirzicherman!
@startstorms@mignano Thanks for the support, Dan! And for helping us beta test. We'd love to keep hearing your thoughts on product on Anchor, especially now that so many product-focused people are coming into the app. I'm sure it will lead to awesome conversations.
@startstorms@nirzicherman Thanks, Dan! It's been so great to have you as a beta tester and I look forward to hearing more of your waves! We've definitely got to meet up one of these days and nerd out on Product Management.
@natelegler Got lucky with the Twitter handle! And our PH launch is only as good as the PH community helps us make it! We're very grateful for people like you helping us make this launch day a lot of fun :)
Been playing around with this for a little while now. It's really fun to have actual conversations (asynchronously) with folks you know and don't about topics that interest you. It's early on but it'll be really cool to see where this goes! =)
Hey @mignano & @nirzicherman - I've been following your journey with Anchor for what feels like a year. The beta of Anchor has seen so much hard work. I've seen more iterating based on user feedback than I've ever seen in any other beta. I'm really looking forward to recording our podcast next Thursday for The App Guy. Congratulations on a successful launch
@paul_s_kemp@mignano Thanks Paul! It was great having you as a beta tester, and we really appreciate all the support/feedback. Really excited to be on your show!
@paul_s_kemp@nirzicherman Thanks, Paul! Your supportive words have been truly encouraging throughout the process. Thanks for hanging in there with us - we know it's been a long time. Looking forward to speaking in a few days!
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Can't wait to play with this. Audio onboarding was so good that you could launch another startup helping other startups w/ onboarding...
Absolutely fantastic onboarding. I left a reply in Anchor itself, but I must say that, as a podcaster, I'd love to see this tie in better to the podcasting world. I'd love to use Anchor to get comments for my show that I can then edit in to my next episode, for example.
Audio is not skimmable in the same way that text is. While I'm happy to listen to an hour-long podcast that is well put together, I'm not so sure I'd want to listen to an hour of comments left in response to someone's <2 minute audio clip.
I think there are interesting ideas here and what's here is really well put together. But, I believe that the next-gen in audio should try to embrace some of the best bits of podcasting while extending the medium.
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