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Re:Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform by AndrewKemendo on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:53PM (#25426777)
Feedback: I did four years of college radio and have wanted to host my own call-in show since I was a kid, and this is seriously what I've been looking for recently.

I do a weekly podcast with my good friend and am going to try it out the next time I record a podcast but I have a couple of thoughts off the bat:

1. Using my phone means I can't (easily) use my condenser mic and pro headphones like I do with my laptop.

2. Rights/Distribution: I currently have 100% ownership over the content I create and I can choose where to distribute it because I have the raw files. Your terms seem on the face to be amenable to me being able to pick up and move my content. I'll be interested to see if you make the content I send through you available for me to download - or if it's required for me to (somehow) also make a recording of my own , which might cause trouble later.

I'm excited for this and think it could be big, and understand it's an MVP right now, so plenty to come just a couple things to think about.

Awesome!

Re:Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform by maguay on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:07AM (#25427221)
Hey Andrew, Matt from the Capiche team here—thank you so much for your feedback!

Great point on phone calls making it difficult to use mics and more. On the one hand from a broadcasting perspective, I've found that freeing as there's less to worry about. You just pick up the phone call and start talking and don't think about everything else. But we do want to improve audio quality, so expect more options here going forward including web broadcasting!

Then, on recordings: When you wrap up a broadcast (which happens in Capiche when you hang up the phone after live streaming), you can download an mp3 of your call, or can go back and download it again anytime later. So you never have to think about recording, and can still always have a full copy of everything you broadcast.

Email anytime if you have any more ideas here!

Re:Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform by xokr8s on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:06AM (#25428106)
Would like to second and add that custom web broadcasting options would be a much needed feature, at least for me. Really cool website and product idea, tho.
Re:Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform by tyingq on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:59PM (#25426829)
On #1, you could get a VOIP number that will handle text messages and use a SIP/Soft phone that will work with your mic and headphones.
Re:Show HN: A Twilio-powered interactive talk radio platform by AndrewKemendo on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:47PM (#25427108)
That's certainly not "easily"

A browser based web interface (like meet) would suffice just fine