Love seeing development in the podcast space. One specific problem I've been wanting solved for a long while is difficulty with sharing podcasts with friends across podcast apps. If you're not using the same podcast app as your friend, it's always a pain to manually search and find the podcast in your own app. I'd love a universal podcast url, something like `podcast://<podcast_url>` that individual podcast apps can understand, which links you to the podcast within your desired app, similar to the "default browser" behaviour on mobile and desktop. Has anyone come across something like this?
Podcasts are just RSS feeds. Nothing stopping a app registering itself as a handler for the RSS mime type, at least on desktop/Android (I don't know how iOS works here). I doubt most users would have a RSS reader installed at this stage, so most users wouldn't even have a risk of getting it revealed as a list of links to audio files by using the wrong app.
This is a big problem for iOS. My spouse uses the default Podcast app. I use Overcast. Anytime she sends me something to listen iOS tries to open it in Podcasts. When I send something from Overcast it gets sent as an Overcast URL.
In the distant past (2009 or so), podcast://… would open in iTunes or similar, being equivalent to http://xn--rvg. So you’d have something like podcast://example.com/podcast.xml. I haven’t the foggiest idea whether this still works, or how HTTPS might have been integrated or not.
I've been building a simple time tracking app. I wanted to learn Next.js, React, TailwindCSS more thoroughly so took this opportunity to build a website I actually wanted to use.
I found all the existing time trackings apps to be so bloated with features like invoicing, billing, teams, etc. I wanted something for myself to be able to keep track of how long I was spending at work and on various tasks.
The site looks good. Kudos. I was looking for an (android) app that does this. All the apps that I tried were so bad or filled with unnecessary things that I gave up on tracking the time for now.
Woah, super cool project! I just finishing building a project [1] that is super similar, but for me it was to learn React and Next.js! Love the simplicity. I had searched for a simple time tracker for my own projects and used just about all of the ones of the first page of the Google search results but found every single one of them bloated with features I did not need (billing, accounting, team support etc).
I just finished the book and would recommend it to those who are interested in the long history of psychedelic research and the future of it. However, I think most of what I took from the book can be captured on the few podcasts he's been interviewed on. Specifically his chats with Tyler Cowen [1] and Kevin Rose [2] were particularly interesting.
