thetanuj
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I like the gamification aspect and I know at least one big music/podcast app which has really great click rates on their pop-up banners. Having said that, this doesn't seem to fit well with what I'm trying to build, which is a no-nonsense open source podcast app. Some might like the pop-ups you're talking about but I'm sure that more than enough people will complain about it.
This is really interesting. Although I was thinking that instead of emailing, I can create a bookmark like feature. It will save the timestamp of the episode which you can easily visit later. I'm definitely going to add this feature.
I have used apple podcasts and I know what you're talking about. The UX of that app is unbelievably bad. I'm sure that none of those issues will be in this app.
I'll be using listennotes.com apis and it allows you to search podcasts, episodes and descriptions. Overall, looks good.
Great! All of it can done. The start screen will be filled with your recent activities and podcasts related to the topics you choose.
Why do you want to disable recommendations though? Recommendations seem like a good for discovering new podcasts.
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thetanuj on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:12PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm building an open source podcast app for Android, mostly for learning purpose. Data will come from listennotes.com and the app design and features will be heavily inspired from Spotify because I'm a big fan of Spotify UX.
I was wondering if I can add any specific feature to make it more interesting for frequent podcast listeners. Thank you.
Do it with a fan and you'll see the fan blades going a little slower for few milliseconds when you look at them. Adjust the fan speed for even better results.
Having dealt with fragmentManager and supportFragmentManager a lot, I highly recommend using Navigation Component. It may be confusing to set it up initially, but once you do it, it makes navigation really easy to handle.
I'm a native Android developer who is almost always interested in the new and shiny tool and my bet is on Flutter instead of PWA. The issue with PWAs is that it's tied up to the mobile browser. Things will never get reasonably standardized, your PWA will have random strange issues that you can't fix and your users will have a sub par experience. As a developer, you just don't want that.
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thetanuj on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @09:25AM
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I'm building a better version of location based chat app. It's mostly for learning purpose but I also want to figure out if it is something that people may want.
There are a lot resources talking about this problem but I want to hear more stories, your thoughts and how would you figure this out.
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thetanuj on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:06AM
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Imagine starting a laptop company where laptops are built specifically designed for developers. Let's assume that hardware is really good. Now we need to create a new operating system for an optimal user experience. Would you develop the your OS on top of BSD or Linux (or something else)? Why?
Whatever information is not provided, feel free to assume it.
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thetanuj on Friday August 24, 2018 @12:04PM
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thetanuj on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:46AM
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thetanuj on Saturday June 25, 2016 @02:08PM
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