Hillel Fuld
@hilzfuld · CMO @ZCastApp, Startup Advisor, Blogger
Hello Hunters,
We've been working toward this day for the better part of a year and super excited it's here.
Podcasting has been something I've personally wanted to leverage for the past five years but every time I tried and started podcasting, I quickly stopped because it was just too difficult. Studio, equipment, the need to be in the same place at at the same time.
That's how ZCast (http://ZCast.co) was born. We used existing Zula tech to enable anyone to podcast from their iPhone or our web app! Literally a ten second process.
Define the topic, invite your co hosts, and go live! Then watch the magic happen. Your hosts' collective followers can jump in, listen, "like", comment and interact!! That's it. You are podcasting with friends.
So excited to see what the Product Hunt community thinks. Thank you to the PH team for building this platform. Team Zula spends hours here daily and we are honored to be here!
I am hillel@zulaapp.com if you have any questions or comments you want to send me privately. @Hilzfuld on the Twitter :)
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Paul Curran
@thepaulcurran · Artist/Techie
@hilzfuld @zulaapp stoked for this, finally I can see myself podcasting, looking forward to using it! Great job!
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Hillel Fuld
@hilzfuld · CMO @ZCastApp, Startup Advisor, Blogger
@thepaulcurran @zulaapp Thank you much, sir!
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Kim
@kim · http://web.kim
@hilzfuld 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Josh Muccio
@joshmuccio · thepitch.fm
@hilzfuld @zulaapp super interesting! We just announced that we'll be recording future episodes of https://thepitch.fm LIVE on @shaanvp's http://blab.im is there any way I can broadcast a pre-recorded episode on ZCast on the day we first publish? My preferred use case for this would be to broadcast the final edited version on ZCast so we can interact with listeners on the day we publish to our existing RSS feed.
It'd be a great way to interact with superfans of our show. We find that most people use podcasts as a DVR on their phone. So people don't typically want to listen in live, UNLESS they are a superfan. And we've been looking for more ways to interact with our most dedicated listeners.
Anyways, good luck team! I wish you the best and hopefully we can work together.
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Alexander Khanukov
@akhanukov · CX/UX strategist, nascent entrepreneur
@hilzfuld Can't wait to try it. I launched my first Podcast last year and had to learn everything from the ground up. Would have been great to use this product then. Look forward to trying this out and using it for a couple different shows. No friction, no problems! @zulaapp
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Hillel Fuld
@hilzfuld · CMO @ZCastApp, Startup Advisor, Blogger
@joshmuccio I'd love nothing more!!
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Mike McCue
@mmccue · ceo, flipboard
@hilzfuld @zulaapp congrats on your launch guys!!!!!
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Raz Yalov
@razyalov · CEO & Co-Founder @ZCastApp
@joshmuccio @hilzfuld @zulaapp @shaanvp I feel like we have the same view of things. We think that the ability to record a podcast "in front of a live audience" is for the super fans as well as for boosting the energy of the podcast, and making it interactive. Yet we agree that most listeners will listen to it as if on a DVR. There is a reason why all the late night shows are recorded in front of a live audience to get that right energy.
We hope that in the future most people will find that ZCast is the best platform to both record as well as share your podcasts, but for now, we are focusing on the live side of the creation, and while all podcasts are recorded, they will be made available for the host to publish are discard in an upcoming update to our product. We will keep you posted.
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Josh Muccio
@joshmuccio · thepitch.fm
@razyalov yes, please let me know! Would love to have a scheduled time where people can listen to an already produced/edited episode. For us, we'd rather record live via Blab or Periscope. But a place to stream the edited episode we don't have yet. Perhaps I can hack something together ;)
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Benjamin Rich
@benjamin_rich
@hilzfuld @stringstory and I were talking about a way to record our geek out sessions. This might be it 😊👌🏼
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