Polypods

Hey PH! Super excited to be sharing Polypods with you. This is our first time posting and we’re excited to join the community! Our Story Yash and I started listening to more podcasts since quarantine started. Both of us are active in keeping up with tech and investing so finding those podcasts was easy. But we could only listen to so many startup stories and investment insights before getting siloed. We wanted to venture into other categories with one-off episodes without having to commit to an entire channel. Our Observations Spotify recently announced Top Charts but showed the same content we already knew (i.e. Joe Rogan & NPR) and didn’t show us good episodes - only entire channels. We scoured PH too but found no tools that were simple, no-account-required, and embraced community suggestions. We thought having only podcast creators upload would really limit the potential for discovery. Reddit’s r/podcasts came close to what we wanted but took way too much effort to filter through and find the actual podcast recommendation. Take a more detailed read on the About page on our website. Our Solution Everyday there will be 10 new podcast episodes that were nominated by the community (click here). If you came across a good episode, we want to hear about it and share it with others! Everyday, the top 2 rated podcasts will be added to our "Records" doc on our website. This was a scrappy 2 week build for us so looking forward to any feedback and questions from you all! We really want to see if there is a need for a podcast “enthusiast” community (creators & listeners) and would love to keep on building if there’s interest.

Cool idea like many others, but using podcasts instead. My only concern is why didn't you purchase a domain name? Definitely would be more professional and easier for users to remember the URL.

Podcast discovery is so hard, I’m glad there are more people solving this. Keep up the good work!

Congrats on the launch, happy to see more attempts on solving the podcast discovery problem. Just to clarify one point about Pod Hunt: > "only displays podcast episodes that creators have uploaded" Anyone can join and submit any episode they think is great, it is not just for creators. It is natural for creators to want to share their own content (just like makers post their own products here), but the platform allows anyone to submit any podcast episode they love.

This looks awesome, podcasts and voice are huge growth opportunities. Really cool seeing a platform like this to help with discoverability :)

Cool idea! I wonder if it would help if, instead of content creators uploading initially, you scrape podcasts and only show ones that have fewer than X listeners (maybe there’s some proxy metric for listeners that’s available on some other site). That way you go from a two sided marketplace to just one, making it easier to overcome the chicken and the egg problem. (Although maybe you’ll never have a shortage of podcast creators uploading their content so this may not even be a problem!)

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