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Hey, I am the founder and developer behind this app. Aside from joining the app because you love podcasts, it may interest you because it has some cool tech be

Hey, I am the founder and developer behind this app. Aside from joining the app because you love podcasts, it may interest you because it has some cool tech behind it. ie) Echo is not a podcast player, but we connect to your podcast player. We give every user their own unique podcast feed, generated with a list of every episode that they want to listen to. This feed can be added to your podcast player just like any other podcast feed. When a user finds an episode on Echo, they just have to tap a button and it will be ready in their podcast player from them to listen to it. Try it out, it's pretty slick in my opinion. Similar solutions have been built, for instance, Patreon generates custom feeds for podcasts which include episodes available only to paid users. However, this is the first time users have the ability to generate a custom podcast feed, for themselves.

mcrider 9y ago
Hey I tried to export my OPML file from Pocketcasts but Echo doesn't show up in the 'share to' app list or in the More... list. Any tips?
- jdlyga 9y ago
  Got the same problem. I'm exporting from Downcast and there's no listing for Echo for open with.
  - dannylmathews 9y ago
    Hey guys, working on a fix atm. I think it has something to do with me not recognizing the file as a proper XML. Will fix and push an update.
    - joshschreuder 9y ago
      Cool thanks. I have a the same problem with Overcast
      - jenhsun 9y ago
        I can confirm that.
        dannylmathews 9y ago
        Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
      - dannylmathews 9y ago
        Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
  - dannylmathews 9y ago
    Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
- dannylmathews 9y ago
  Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
  - calvano915 9y ago
    I'm receiving an XML parsing error when trying to import OPML generated by the Windows app Grover Pro. Please see if you can identify what should be modified/added in the OPML file for a successful import, or if it's something on your app's side.
jonny_eh 9y ago
Are you associated with Amazon? Because you're using two of their trademarks (Echo + Goodreads)
- anon335dtzbvc 9y ago
  i think dannylmathews must be a Amazon affiliative otherwise his product would most likely be illegal name-wise
- rdslw 9y ago
  What??? You can not trademark echo for different areas. And podcast is different. This way of reasoning makes me speachless. P.s. goodreads might be a case though.
  - dannylmathews 9y ago
    Hey, I am not affiliated with Amazon. Fair point on using Goodreads. I'm just using that name so people quickly get an idea of the product ex) how people pitch their ideas as Uber for X
    - epicide 9y ago
      Amazon won't see it that way. If not now, then when you get big.
  - zodPod 9y ago
    Your legal knowledge has left me speachless. Amazon has very generic trademarks on the word echo. Podcasts are a recorded format meant for playback that provides commentary on different categories. Amazon definitely holds trademarks on these types of areas. That said, I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to how much issue the overlap would cause but regardless Amazon has billions of dollars and could walk all over anyone they want so I'm pretty sure if this got bigger and they took issue with the use of the name Echo they could cause a lot of hell.
    - rdslw 9y ago
wuliwong 9y ago
I'll check this out! I've been interested in creating an app that helps in discovery of streaming media around the web.
codefined 9y ago
Cool project! Since this seems like something you've created yourself, can you share what stack you used to support both iOS and Android?
- dannylmathews 9y ago
  hey, I actually have been an iOS dev for ~5 years and this is my first native Android app. I totally get if you are a web dev and want to do a React Native app, but I believe it was quicker for me to do both natively. My server is in Node, and I used GraphQL and loved using it, I believe it made me ~30% faster than building a traditional REST API.
gt_ 9y ago
Could not import OPML from Casts so I couldn’t try out the app. Bummer because I was looking forward to it.

mcrider 9y ago

Hey I tried to export my OPML file from Pocketcasts but Echo doesn't show up in the 'share to' app list or in the More... list. Any tips?

jdlyga 9y ago
Got the same problem. I'm exporting from Downcast and there's no listing for Echo for open with.
- dannylmathews 9y ago
  Hey guys, working on a fix atm. I think it has something to do with me not recognizing the file as a proper XML. Will fix and push an update.
  - joshschreuder 9y ago
    Cool thanks. I have a the same problem with Overcast
    - jenhsun 9y ago
      I can confirm that.
      - dannylmathews 9y ago
        Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
    - dannylmathews 9y ago
      Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
- dannylmathews 9y ago
  Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
dannylmathews 9y ago
Fixed! Please update to the latest version to see the fix.
- calvano915 9y ago
  I'm receiving an XML parsing error when trying to import OPML generated by the Windows app Grover Pro. Please see if you can identify what should be modified/added in the OPML file for a successful import, or if it's something on your app's side.

jonny_eh 9y ago

Are you associated with Amazon? Because you're using two of their trademarks (Echo + Goodreads)

anon335dtzbvc 9y ago
i think dannylmathews must be a Amazon affiliative otherwise his product would most likely be illegal name-wise
rdslw 9y ago
What??? You can not trademark echo for different areas. And podcast is different. This way of reasoning makes me speachless. P.s. goodreads might be a case though.
- dannylmathews 9y ago
  Hey, I am not affiliated with Amazon. Fair point on using Goodreads. I'm just using that name so people quickly get an idea of the product ex) how people pitch their ideas as Uber for X
  - epicide 9y ago
    Amazon won't see it that way. If not now, then when you get big.
- zodPod 9y ago
  Your legal knowledge has left me speachless. Amazon has very generic trademarks on the word echo. Podcasts are a recorded format meant for playback that provides commentary on different categories. Amazon definitely holds trademarks on these types of areas. That said, I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to how much issue the overlap would cause but regardless Amazon has billions of dollars and could walk all over anyone they want so I'm pretty sure if this got bigger and they took issue with the use of the name Echo they could cause a lot of hell.
  - rdslw 9y ago

wuliwong 9y ago

I'll check this out! I've been interested in creating an app that helps in discovery of streaming media around the web.

codefined 9y ago

Cool project! Since this seems like something you've created yourself, can you share what stack you used to support both iOS and Android?

dannylmathews 9y ago
hey, I actually have been an iOS dev for ~5 years and this is my first native Android app. I totally get if you are a web dev and want to do a React Native app, but I believe it was quicker for me to do both natively. My server is in Node, and I used GraphQL and loved using it, I believe it made me ~30% faster than building a traditional REST API.

gt_ 9y ago

Could not import OPML from Casts so I couldn’t try out the app. Bummer because I was looking forward to it.