What's up Product Hunters! This is Mike, CEO and co-founder of Cooler. On behalf of our small but mighty team of five, I'm excited to introduce Cooler to you!
Ever felt like podcasting is weirdly... lonely? Even though millions of people are listening, it still feels like this: 🦗🦗🦗—when really, it should feel more like this: 😂👏❤️🔥💬?
That's why we built Cooler—a podcast player designed to make listening more social, interactive, and fun.
With Cooler, you can:
Join the Conversation – Drop comments, react, and see what others are saying.
Show your fandom – Rack up streaks, compete on leaderboards and flex your listening stats.
Sharing is Caring – Turn your favorite audio clips into beautiful videos to share everywhere, recommend episodes, and see what your podcast communities are into.
And we're just getting started.
You see, the podcast industry is dominated by three players (Apple, Spotify, and YouTube), none of whom are actually podcast companies. Podcasts are not their primary source of revenue. So innovation has come at a glacial pace. The rest of the players are all fighting for the remainder of the market. While there are some really great players (shoutout Overcast!), it's been incredibly hard to break user's habits. That's why we need early adopters like yourselves to help us break through and usher in a new wave of innovation. Download the app, use it as a your primary podcast player for a couple weeks, and send me any feedback you have at mike@cooler.fm. We want to build this with and for podcast lovers like yourself!!
I am a huge fan of this idea. It is like "social-medialing" podcasting and broadcasting. If I understood correctly – people can rate and create communities over podcasts from Spotify and big players on the podcast market, right?
If the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, it is already on Cooler.
For now people can "rate" podcast episodes in the form of reactions. You can leave as many reactions as you want while you listen to an episode. Others can judge if an episode is popular or not by how many reactions it gets.
Communities are created automatically when you follow a podcast and each episode is a space for the community to comment and interact with each other.
Thank you for making your tool more clear by explaining the processes :)
Report
This definitely seems like to fills a void in the podcast-listening experience. So often I want to react and share in real time what I'm hearing, but the tools aren't in place. I like this approach and am excited to give it a try. With regard to accumulating points, how does that work? That is probably the only thing that stumped me-- seems like a gamification aspect that stands apart from the community-building functionality. Congrats on the launch!
Report
Hey mike, this is a very fun idea with great branding. I wanted to know when an Android version might be on the way?
Report
Amazing concept and very much needed! Great way to make the podcast experience interactive - Congrats on a cool product team!
@milosmilosevic Thanks Milos!! Appreciate the kind words and support!! 🙌
Report
I love the idea! I downloaded the app and really enjoyed the copy and smooth onboarding.
Congrats on the launch!
Just a small suggestion: it would be great to have a search option in the “Import your podcasts” section instead of having to choose from the staff favorites.
@morgane_prr Morgane, so glad you’re enjoying the app! Appreciate the feedback—after onboarding, you’ll be able to search for any podcast. (If the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, it is already on Cooler) Thanks for giving it a try!
Report
Great idea to create communities of podcast listeners, can't wait to see Cooler continue to innovate and grow!
Cooler
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
I am a huge fan of this idea. It is like "social-medialing" podcasting and broadcasting.
If I understood correctly – people can rate and create communities over podcasts from Spotify and big players on the podcast market, right?
Cooler
@busmark_w_nika yes!
If the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, it is already on Cooler.
For now people can "rate" podcast episodes in the form of reactions. You can leave as many reactions as you want while you listen to an episode. Others can judge if an episode is popular or not by how many reactions it gets.
Communities are created automatically when you follow a podcast and each episode is a space for the community to comment and interact with each other.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
Thank you for making your tool more clear by explaining the processes :)
This definitely seems like to fills a void in the podcast-listening experience. So often I want to react and share in real time what I'm hearing, but the tools aren't in place. I like this approach and am excited to give it a try. With regard to accumulating points, how does that work? That is probably the only thing that stumped me-- seems like a gamification aspect that stands apart from the community-building functionality. Congrats on the launch!
Hey mike, this is a very fun idea with great branding. I wanted to know when an Android version might be on the way?
Amazing concept and very much needed! Great way to make the podcast experience interactive - Congrats on a cool product team!
Cooler
@milosmilosevic Thanks Milos!! Appreciate the kind words and support!! 🙌
I love the idea! I downloaded the app and really enjoyed the copy and smooth onboarding.
Congrats on the launch!
Just a small suggestion: it would be great to have a search option in the “Import your podcasts” section instead of having to choose from the staff favorites.
Cooler
@morgane_prr Morgane, so glad you’re enjoying the app! Appreciate the feedback—after onboarding, you’ll be able to search for any podcast. (If the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, it is already on Cooler) Thanks for giving it a try!
Great idea to create communities of podcast listeners, can't wait to see Cooler continue to innovate and grow!