169 sats \ 13 replies \ @Gigachad 2 Feb 2023 \ on: Underrated Lightning Apps bitcoin
Fountain.fm is pretty spectacular. They provide an avenue for podcasters to be rewarded in other ways besides overt donations. They also incentivize listening and education because there is a possibility to stack sats through listening.
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personally i find Fountain lacking in features and its UX pretty bad. I'd love to use it more frequently but in the end it just feels too unpolished to become my daily driver for podcasts. I'm using Pocket Casts and the smoothness of it is just orders of magnitude further than Fountain.
I do occasionally actually find the podcasts that i'm listening on Pocket Cast and boost them on Fountain but i really need to be extra motivated for that
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Have you checked out our latest 0.6 release? Lot's of UX improvements! https://twitter.com/fountain_app/status/1612438181973999616
Anything specific you'd like changed / added?
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Hey @MerryOscar you've got a LOT of improvements, great job. Two questions:
- Any reason pull-down-to-refresh didn't get implemented?
- What's the timeline for a desktop app? I try to listen on the mobile version via M1 Mac but it's buggy to the max.
Also a big suggestion: maybe you can partner with something like Cash App, Fold or RoundlyX to get small amounts of sats from round-ups directly into the Fountain wallet. I use round-ups from Cash App to fund mine. Or maybe a nice marketing campaign showing people how easy it is. The best part about round-ups is that I'm never (in my mind) actually spending my bitcoin. It feels like it's all free sats that can go to creators no problem.
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will get pull down to refresh prioritised for you - if it's not out by end of Feb I'll send you 10,000 sats via this comment. I've set a reminder to reply here 1st March.
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desktop version is coming at some point in the next ~3 months.
Love the idea of roundups! - let me have a think about this one
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You did it!!!!!!!!!
A+ user experience now.
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haha not in time though!
Was going to message you - have sent 10,000 sats to your comment above as promised!
What's next on your most requested feature list?
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still no pulldown to refesh on android it seems.
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been stuck in Android closed testing review for 3 days - normally goes through in a couple hours... quite frustrating but should be through soon
I hadn't remembered the sats part, but that's fun - thanks : )
Sure! It's not as big as that one, but maybe to customize the page that opens when I open the app - or simply re-open to the last section we were on.
Bump the "Download Episode Audio / Delete Episode Audio button" to the main episode page view rather than the Add-to-queue - or have an option. I imagine people would have one preference or the other, but not both
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great thanks - we plan to add both these options!
just couple from the top of my mind
- app refreshes and takes forever every time you start it up
- unusable without internet connection / doesnt handle switching between networks very well
- forgetting where you left of and going back to previous position
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