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Listen App — The first social network for podcast listeners
Voice-chat with others who just listened to the same episode. Connect, hang out and even interact with podcast hosts.
All posting is w/ voice and transcribed.
Chat with podcasters such as Jordan Harbinger, John Lee Dumas, & Pat Flynn and many others!
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@crixlet Aaron, thanks for the feedback, we're just getting started so thanks for considering. We've tried to replicate this with our playlists. But will certainly be improving!
@j5uh We're just getting started, watch and carplay will be coming a tad later... if you create an account, you'll get updates with the latest developments.
@patflynn Thank you for being part of this project from the beginning! I'm honored to have such an amazing group of people supporting the project and giving feedback. 🙏😭🤓
Awesome, will give it a try. May I have a question to someone who knows a lot about podcasts. Is there a way to filter the podcasts by language? Either in your app or elsewhere.
@visualpharm Yes, you have to set the localization/language of the app to a different language/country. Our app will support this soon!
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!
Wow! I love the ability to get involved in the conversation. Brilliant design and functionality! 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.
One annoying thing though.. although I’ve skipped choosing interests and podcast to import only my subscriptions, the app subscribed me to a LOT of podcasts that I have no interest into nor did I want on my list anyway.
And it’s really slow and hard to unsubscribe them (one by one, no batch actions).
Aaargh!
@lyondhur thank you for your kind words of support! Apologies for the inconvenience..
but the shows we pre-installed are part of a campaign to give our early users a starting place for interaction on the app.
@paulmikhaylenko it would be cool to be notify the user in advance.
It took me a while to delete them all and I wouldn’t really want to add any of them regardless.
It feels a bit like forced help if I may say so..? I’ll be sure to reinstall the app in the future to see how it evolves.
As of now, sticking to my other app and not transitioning. All the best.
PS: Not sure if this is a general issue, but it hogged quite a lot of my battery as well. iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 11 Pro, on both.
Great design and user experience. Definitely will be the app of choice for podcasting.
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!
Interesting concept. I guess I'm wondering - why would I use this app as opposed to listening on Spotify?
@dave_goldblatt There's a ton :) Connect with other listeners, see what your friends are listening to, discuss episodes with other listeners globally using your voice, etc
Excited to see how Listen app is going to grow and become mainstream app for Podcasts. Reserved one of the best handles, lol )
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!
@paulmikhaylenko congrats on the launch! Love the idea behind it and appreciate how well you executed on the overall experience. Looking forward to seeing how the conversations evolve around episodes.
@urbanorganism Thanks you! Yes, I imagine it like sitting around the table with other listeners and having an asynchronous chat :)
@paulmikhaylenko - I may be missing something but how do I interact/talk with the podcast hosts?
This reminds me of SoundCloud's ability for users to comment on tracks with timestamps. Brilliant. Haven't launched my podcast yet. Working on the distribution strategy and increasing engagement by using Listen App is not definitely going to be a part of it. Can't wait to use your product.
@jarrod_morris You mean "now" 😜yes it's similar except we're using our voices!
Amazing idea. But no Android app so the entire developing economies massive market (read India) remains untapped.
@paulmikhaylenko - the app looks fantastic. I ran into an issue during onboarding. I chose import from other app (other option was Apple Podcasts) since I use Pocket Casts as my main app and followed the instructions. Exported to OPML from Pocket Casts (which I've done successfully several times when I want to check out a new app) and used the "Copy to Listen" share extension but got an error that no files were found. When I went back a screen, it shows "212 of 212" which is the # of casts I subscribe to, but then it just hangs. Since it displays "Give us a minute to tidy up your feed,' I waited 7-8 minutes and nothing happened. I quit, restarted, tried the process again to no avail. But since Apple Podcasts was an option on onboarding, I figured I could access it in settings, too, but the only option there is to import from OPML.
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