Hey PH,
I'm Danny, I'm the founder of Echo. I built Echo because I wanted a better sense of what podcasts my friends were listening to, what recommendations they had, and a convenient place to chat about these podcasts.
I find listening to podcasts to be a very solo endeavour. It’s me, my headphones and the awesome world the podcast host has created. I'm trying to add my friends to that group as well.
Echo is me, my Facebook friends and some beta users. I've been building (developed the iOS, Android versions) over the last 9 months and been iterating over user's feedback and believe it's time to invite others into the community.
A couple of the cool features:
- You can easily import your podcasts from Apple Podcasts or an OPML file to build your podcast profile.
- You can see a list of podcasts every friend in the app is listening to. (This is one of the most popular screens)
- You can "echo" out a podcast (and add some text for context) to tell your friends which episode from a podcast is great and they should check out.
- You can search by podcast or by episode. I've found the episodic search quite fun because you can search for ex) Malcolm Gladwell and get every podcast interview he has done.
- There is a similar podcast button on the podcast screen that finds you similar podcasts to the podcast you are currently viewing.
Edit: Hey peeps, just an FYI, we hit iTunes Search API limit today. working on a fix, but the search screen doesn't work as planned atm. Should be working shortly.
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