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@caramev hello there Cara, greetings from New Zealand. I Love the UX of your app. I think it’s a great concept and having tried it for half an hour I can say it’s really pleasant to use. This is great and innovative work as far as making it easy for people who are new to podcasting, simply sorting them out with quality pre-selected content in a radio-like form. However, for people who are already into podcasting (myself included) I still believe podcast app developers often times ignore a big and cumbersome problem: our - very long - OPML list of subscriptions. 1/2

@caramev Without import/export options, every time a new app appears and we want to try it, it’s the same ordeal. May all the gods forbid us liking it.. 😄 because if we do, we are looking at re-adding all the favourite shows. Again. It would be amazing if you guys considered an import/export, so that the user can build that streamlined radio version of their favourite shows. This would be the perfect podcast app for me. But I digress.. Thank you for the great work and for offering it for free. 2/2

@lyondhur Love that idea! We've talked about getting the OPML import into the onboarding so that we can recommend stations, and perhaps even creating a station that is just your favorites. What do you think?

@caramev that would be cool. I myself have a LOAD of podcast subscriptions (more than I’d like to admit). I could really use the ability to create my own “radio” by pairing shows in each, say, category and all. I understand we all have to keep our users and therefore, most projects are okay with on-boarding, but far from all are decent with off-boarding of data/history. That’s the reason why I still rely on Overcast. It keeps me there because it’s good enough (as a player), but doesn’t stop me from trying other things since I can easily export my long subs OPML. As far as Subcast goes, yeah to whatever radio-making capabilities on the user’s end. That’d be great.

@nneuman Subcast founder and PJ here. Great observations! Top-notch curation is essential to Subcast and we plan to push the bar even higher as we launch more stations. Curation at Subcast is maybe 70% art, 30% science. First and foremost, Subcast's PJs are all experts in and/or passionate about the topics of the stations they curate. We hand-pick all the shows in each station and order the episodes each day to give you the best start to your listening in as short a time as possible. Then, we check in on how the shows and episodes perform in each station and adjust over time. We're informed not just by your actions - like that big, purple heart button that tells us you love a show, or when you skip past an episode that isn't quite grabbing you - but also what fans are saying on social media, what new shows are launching to rave reviews, and so on. As you noted, we're looking to recruit folks in the podcast community to help us curate stations on different topics, and we're partnering with podcast creators, networks, and brands who want to launch their own stations. The most visible difference is branding, but underneath there is a different set of listener needs being addressed. We're still learning about the curator incentives here and would love to talk more about this with folks who are interested.

@bogdansoare Absolutely, we plan on being everywhere -- including Google Home. Stay tuned!