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Michael Suen@michaeljsuen1 · Co-Founder of Colony FM
Hi Product Hunt! I’m a co-founder of www.colony.fm. We initially built Colony FM because we wanted to be able to listen to articles while on-the-go. We made a decision early on to have real people reading the articles, and things got off to a good start! As people began using it, we realized that a lot of people came to us with requests for pieces and webpa… See more
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Chris Messina@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@michaeljsuen1 I've really missed @tokuku's Umano ever since Dropbox acquired them. It'd be great to see this full in their shoes! I noticed that the onboarding flow isn't mobile friendly. Any plans to do a native app or integrate into podcasting apps like Overcast?
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Michael Suen@michaeljsuen1 · Co-Founder of Colony FM
@chrismessina @tokuku Hey Chris! One of Umano's co-founders (Anton) is actually our main advisor, so it's awesome that you mentioned them! There is a mobile app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...) which hopefully addresses the mobile friendliness issue you brought up!
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Jeff Solomon@sollytweet · Founder @Velocify @Amplify @Aftyco
@michaeljsuen1 @chrismessina @tokuku I was an early investor in Umano and loved the product very much and liked Ian and the team, but they dumped a lot of money into that business and very much struggled to build a sustainable model. And they were choosing the content you could listen too, whereas I can request anything from your service. Although that is qu… See more
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Michael Suen@michaeljsuen1 · Co-Founder of Colony FM
@sollytweet @chrismessina @tokuku @paulgraham Jeff, thank you for your honest and insightful feedback. We did talk to Anton about some of this, but it's great hearing your experience on this. I'm really happy to see from your comment and the comments of many others that people have a real need for something like this, and we are going to work very hard to ma… See more
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