Colony FM

@katmanalac Thanks for the hunt Kat!!

@danflopes Not as costly as you would think ;-) At the moment, we're just building out content and a narrating base. We're looking into subscriptions in the future, but people who've signed up with us already will be grandfathered in :D

@techwraith That's a wonderful suggestion! Unfortunately we are not ready for that yet :-p but this is definitely something we will keep in mind! Thank you!

@michaeljsuen1 I've really missed @tokuku's Umano ever since Dropbox acquired them. It'd be great to see this full in their shoes! I noticed that the onboarding flow isn't mobile friendly. Any plans to do a native app or integrate into podcasting apps like Overcast?

@chrismessina @tokuku Hey Chris! One of Umano's co-founders (Anton) is actually our main advisor, so it's awesome that you mentioned them! There is a mobile app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...) which hopefully addresses the mobile friendliness issue you brought up!

@michaeljsuen1 @chrismessina @tokuku I was an early investor in Umano and loved the product very much and liked Ian and the team, but they dumped a lot of money into that business and very much struggled to build a sustainable model. And they were choosing the content you could listen too, whereas I can request anything from your service. Although that is quite attractive (just requested a @paulgraham essay I haven't read yet) and interested to see whether you do all that is requested or reject some for this or that reason. I'm sure Anton has shared some of the content licensing challenges with you around charging for audio versions of content they don't own -- but i'm sure you've cracked that nut already. Sucked that Dropbox shut the service dow and the team couldn't find someone to take over what they built, and man, they built a huge stack there over the 3 or so years. I suggested to them to try the pay to record model, personally, if the price was good, I would pay to have things read. There was another company that did this, Voicebunny i think, but it was outrageously expensive. My thought was then you could say the owner of the content is actually the person that paid for it but you could then you could let it be shared under their profile in the app or website or something and if you were contacted by the content owner you might be able to claim UGC and just remove it upon request. Anyway, good luck. I used Umano every day, it was awesome.

@sollytweet @chrismessina @tokuku @paulgraham Jeff, thank you for your honest and insightful feedback. We did talk to Anton about some of this, but it's great hearing your experience on this. I'm really happy to see from your comment and the comments of many others that people have a real need for something like this, and we are going to work very hard to make sure we learn and improve moving forward! Thanks again, Jeff!

@manojnahar Thanks for the feedback! Don't know why the invite feature seems to be broken...looking into that now!

@lecanardmalade Haha, no Russian or German right now, but if you would like, sent me a message on Twitter :P

Hey @michaeljsuen1! Was trying to send you a PM on Twitter but can't :-( However, still interested :-)