Show HN: Pod Hunt – The best new podcasts daily
podhunt.appBeen a supporter of Pod Hunt since the day it launched, decided to have my podcast (The Better Show) become an official Pod Hunt "Supporter", and spent over an hour last night with it's founder, Mubs, on Skype talking product direction.
I can't stress how critical it is to build better podcast discovery mechanisms for the medium to continue to grow and thrive. Right now, most podcast discovery is self-reinforcing already successful podcasts. This is neither good for podcasters, or listeners. For new podcasts, its extremely hard to grow/learn, and for listeners it limits the ability to show them how broad and diverse the podcasting world is (which is one of its core strengths, there is something for EVERYONE!)
After my call with Mubs, I'm super excited to see where Pod Hunt goes in the future.
With over 850K podcasts, and an estimated 450K active podcasts finding the gems to listen too is getting harder than ever.
Rather than discovering podcasts, Pod Hunt makes episodes the focal point of discovery. You won't find a the same tired list of top podcasts you see everywhere else.
Instead a daily updated list of new episodes is submitted and voted on by the Pod Hunt community members.
Would love to know what you all think...
Something I've been looking for - the discovery of podcast episodes. Excited to see what this can grow into.
I’ve been waiting for something like this!
I like that I can scroll down and see top episodes for each day.
Super simple podcast discovery, much needed right now! Replaces (and improves upon) the deeply-missed Product Hunt podcast section. Great work, Mubs!
Love how easy it is for me to discover new podcasts that interest me. Not sure how I lived without this before!
This looks simple but very useful. Could prove to be a major game changer down the line.
Keeping it simple was hard work!
But seriously wanted a quick clean experience and keep the focus on the podcasts.
Pod Hunt is awesome for podcast discovery, and only getting better!
Excited to see what the future holds.
Love the progress. Anything you can share with future features?
Still deciding between 2 directions for the short term (based on user feedback)...
Either -) More personalization so you can focus in on the topics that really interest you.
or -) Providing more information on the podcast (hosts and episode specific information) so listeners can better judge if they will enjoy a podcast.
Will probably do both eventually, but with limited time trying to decide which is more important and to tackle first.
discovery is so hard in this space so any and all channels to discovery are a must!
Thank you for making this new discovery channel.
hands down the best way to discover new shows. excited to see how it grows!
Nice work Mubashar!