Hey there PH! 👋 🐈 Paul here, founder @ Listen App I know this is a strange time to launch products, but perhaps this will make quarantine more interesting. Listen App is a new type of social network. Just as podcasting is intimate; we're extending the human voice into your social interactions. Your app will come pre-installed with a few shows: Pandemic Checkin, Remotely Possible, and Market Snacks. The producers of these shows are looking to interact with you and create new episodes incorporating your voices! Podcasting needs a new social network: 1. Traditional social platforms don't interface with audio (ex. you can’t post a link to an episode because everyone uses a different player). 2. When you listen to an episode, it’s extremely difficult to find other like-minded people who have also listened to it for you to discuss. 3. Podcasts subscribers are some of the best naturally forming communities that are completely untapped. Meanwhile, podcasters are eager but don’t have a good way to engage with and build communities for their listeners. So we took all of our lessons from or previous podcast app and designed something that I’m incredibly pleased to present to you! Here's what makes Listen App different: 🎙 👄 We used voice+transcription instead of text for all posting/commenting. This allowed us to maintain the intimacy of the voice not just for listening but also for discussing. 💄📲Also, we're obsessed with product design and were fortunate to have some of the best designers working on this. 🤝🗣Listen App is uniquely bridging the gap between podcasters and listeners. Many fantastic podcasters joined the platform before we even launched. I can’t wait to read your feedback and hear your voices on the app! Claim your handle to get the good ones :) Let’s start to create a community of podcast listeners and geek out 🤓Btw, thanks @bramk for the hunt!

FIRED UP to be a supporter and advisor for Listen App. More than ever, podcast hosts and listeners need the ability to engage, and Listen App is the best opportunity for us to do just that. Love it!

Very VERY cool concept. Definitely giving it a go. Congratulations on the first tutorial episode with your kid. That was nice. Nothing but love for this project so far.

So incredibly proud to be a part of this project! Can’t wait to see it as a staple app on everyone’s device, and conversations happening where they should have been happening for a long time now. Well done team!

Basically like a podcast with my friends where we talk about our favorite podcasts, what could make more sense?

Just the vision alone is worth standing behind👌🏻

Great design and user experience. Definitely will be the app of choice for podcasting.

This UI blows me away! Apple should learn from you! Simplicity and color scheme is unreal! Excited to see how this will go to the moon! Let’s gooo!

What’s up guys! Just downloaded Listen App and it’s amazing! Love it! Will keep it on my phone forever! I personally know the guy who’s behind this project and he put all of his efforts and passion into this app. Absolutely amazing. Make sure to download this app and enjoy it!! 😁

For me podcasts have always been about immersing yourself in conversation and the Listen App is a natural progression of the podcasting experience. Can't tell you how many times I've finished listening to a Lex Fridman podcast and immediately called a colleague to chat about it. This was such a genius idea and executed perfectly...THANK YOU Listen App TEAM!

Great idea and execution! I've been looking for a way to engage with the broader podcast listener community.

Very nice, the ui is fluid, can't wait to try

Nice work gang! I enjoyed the audio. The voice > transcribe in a social context is something I've thought a lot about in the last few years and am so pleased to see it executed at a high level. Keep it up!

One of the best designed podcasting apps out there. I’ve became a full believer when Listen let me import my existing library from Apple Podcasts. Keep it up @paulmikhaylenko!

I’ve been waiting for this app to go live for a long period of time, ever since Paul messaged me about the concept. I truly believe in a time of chaos human connection is something we can all use and I’m excited to see where this goes. Oh and the UI is absolutely sexy and a pleasure to use! Congrats Paul and team!

Good idea!

Pretty cool. I’d suggest a couple of things: - as part of the user setup, I should be prompted to select whether or not I want to download new episodes automatically. - It should be easier to access the show notes. I though that when I opened the player, I could just swipe up on it to pull up the show notes. I had to tap around for a while to find it. Other than that, it’s a great app!

It’s exciting to finally be able to put a voice to an anonymous number!!

Very cool concept! Could be a game changer! Just listened to a little Gary Vee!

Awesome.