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Pondr — Discover & share bite-sized ideas on personal growth.
Pondr is a platform for curious people to discover and share bite-sized ideas. Swipe up/down to browse articles, save your favorites, and discover new people/ content. Each article fits the screen and takes 45 seconds to read.
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@joshdance Pondr is what you get when you take average of Twitter and Medium. TikTok because just like TikTok, Pondr also has One Screen, One Article and you swipe up to get new content.
I have mentioned several advantages of such content format in my comment.
@temirlan It emulates the feature of swiping from Tiktok (one screen, one content), and the content is also lengthier than twitter. Pondr articles are much more in-depth than a tweet and yet far shorter than most blog posts. We believe it's just the right length to convey an idea or thought succinctly.
@rrhoover this is something that might interest you.
@sumit_sinha3 do you have any plans to monetize? Would be interested to hear more, especially if it splits from mediums type
@aaronoleary Currently there are no plans as such. We will keep the app free to use forever. Once we have critical mass of users, we might have non-distracting native ads.
This is so cool. Loved the app and the interface. Looks like I am going to use it everyday. Better than reading a huge book for months. ;)
@prashant_bhalla Thank you for the positive feedback Prashant. I am glad you liked it.
Hello Product Hunt Community 👋 🤗
Thank you @gideon_tay for hunting us! Our belief is that sharing of ideas and experiences moves humanity forward. In today’s time, because of the influence of modern technology, people have short attention spans and they are always on the go. This has made people increasingly reluctant to read and write especially on mobile. Nevertheless, we believe of all the things you can do, reading has the greatest impact on your thinking.
To make reading cool again, Pondr introduces a new content format to the world : Bite-sized articles that fit your mobile screen.
With sleek and clean UX, Pondr is a mobile-first written content platform that is designed from ground-up for the modern smartphone users.
Here are some advantages of this new content format :
👉You can convey a lot more meaningful content than a tweet. Signal to noise is significantly high.
👉The user instantly knows how much they have to read unlike in long-form content.
👉It takes 45 seconds to read an article that is just suitable for modern smartphone users with short attention spans.
👉It is a highly focused reading experience. One screen, one article.
👉These articles can be shared easily outside the platform as images, which has far more viral potential than sharing urls.
👉Writing experience on mobile devices is much better if the content is short.
I am an entrepreneur from India and I got the idea for Pondr when I found that despite being an avid reader I have been increasingly reluctant to read long articles on mobile. I also wanted a leisurely reading experience to replace my mindless social media browsing. For these reasons I wanted an app that was :
🤜 Dead simple to use
🤜 Habit-forming
🤜 Engaging/Interactive
🤜 Added value in my life
Pondr is my attempt to bring such an app into existence.
My team and I have been working continuously to make the experience of using it delightful and bring many new features.
I hope you enjoy Pondring as much as we do!
Hey I joined today and shared a short story on it. I was wondering if there was a way to share drafts on it and also follow writers?
@sreekar Thanks for joining and sharing your story. Yes, we are working on the follow feature and will be released soon. And no, unfortunately you can't share draft from within the app. Only published articles can be shared. May I know the reason as to why you would want to share a draft article?
@sumit_sinha3 hey nice! When I write a story I don't publish it then and there. I usually mull over it for a couple of days before editing it and finally publishing. A drafts feature would help me do that. Either way I think your product is great and all the very best!
@sumit_sinha3 sorry my bad. I didn't mean share the draft but save the draft.
@sreekar Draft feature is there but it is currently limited to just one article. At any given time, the last article you wrote is saved as a draft in the editor itself.
Love to start my day with these short,stimulating and uplifting articles ..I wish these guys make it big!!!
@nitin_nash I am happy to know you start the day with Pondr. Thank you very much for the kind word.
It's a great app. Highly recommend it to the people who love to learn something new everyday :)
Really a great app. Reading experience is excellent. Short & Concise articles help me increase a bit of my knowledge everyday within a couple of minutes & now I can't go a day without scrolling through its contents.
Highly recommended app for an avid reader.
@sushmita_sinha1 Very happy to know that you are forming a healthy habit with our app.
Amazing! The powerful contents on this app are highly addictive to my curious self haha. Love it 😍
Highly recommended app for readers and writers
Really a great product. It has helped me a lot to use my time while travelling and get more knowledgeable. Easy to use user interface makes it a winner at all fronts. By far my favourite app
Great product and amazing user experience, I will surely use it!! Keep up the good work guys.
Summer Bod 2020