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Re:Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts by tdevito on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:39PM (#15848214)
This is clever idea. From my first look it appears to be an Instagram-like social network, but with no user generated content. While social graphs themselves have value, I think we have hit an inflection point with users getting tired of sharing their personal content. Personally, I am much more interested in what other people like and have to say about mass media content rather than their selfies or wedding pictures, frankly I just don't give a damn about user generated content and I think I'm not the only one. We need more platforms like this for other types of content such as movies, TV, music and vetted news publishers. Just curious, is the news feed 100% reverse chronological? Do you have any ranking/recommendation algorithm for the discover tab?
Re:Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts by dannylmathews on Monday December 04, 2017 @07:49PM (#15848923)
Yes the news feed is 100% reverse chronological except for one row which suggests podcasts to you based on a friend that has a podcast in the same iTunes genre as one of your podcasts. I do want to do a smarter ranking/recommendation system but it pretty simple recommendations for now.