Pretty interesting application (I'm not the target audience for this, so limited understanding). It's good that you showed some samples, many demos just ask you to sign up right away. I like that the voices sound like newscasters with some intonation and not the weird synthetic types; there's a bit of synthetic wobbling but it's not too bad.
I'm not familiar enough with the podcast-listening audience, so I have to ask: is saving content for later and not being able to catch up a real problem? Surely if you didn't read it then it doesn't matter since you didn't make time for it anyway?
Hey! Thanks for the comment. I built this primarily for myself bc I'm a slow reader (dyslexic ). Anyone who gravitates towards audiobooks or podcasts can basically use this to power through online content they'd rather listen to than read.
Shortly after launching a second customer audience emerged though... people who have newsletters or blogs and want to "convert" these into companion Podcasts. So I've been shipping some improvements to make that possible and have found a slightly stronger signal (more $$ too) from this group.
Ultimately I want this to become a research tool as well, so you can just specify the topics you are interested in and PodStash will give you a daily/weekly episode keeping you informed on that topic.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 12.9 ms ] threadI'm not familiar enough with the podcast-listening audience, so I have to ask: is saving content for later and not being able to catch up a real problem? Surely if you didn't read it then it doesn't matter since you didn't make time for it anyway?
Shortly after launching a second customer audience emerged though... people who have newsletters or blogs and want to "convert" these into companion Podcasts. So I've been shipping some improvements to make that possible and have found a slightly stronger signal (more $$ too) from this group.
Ultimately I want this to become a research tool as well, so you can just specify the topics you are interested in and PodStash will give you a daily/weekly episode keeping you informed on that topic.