I'm using Huffduffer for a while and it's really good, since I can create a podcast feed from any available audio on the web and it extracts audio from several (video) platforms and stores it for a month.
> Huffduffer takes the pain out of podcasting found sounds.
This is perfect. I love that it fits seamless in my audio/podcast flow. I was listening to articles via Pocket before, but it's not as good as your product.
I suspect this will cost money sooner or later (text2speech and audio storage) - what are the plans here?
Honestly we don't have plans around making $ figured out. It started as a side project, and I feel the first step is to figure out if we built something valuable. If there's significant demand, we'll think of ways to monetize.
Could you elaborate on whats missing from Pocket? And 2) Is there anything on your mind we could add to make audiblogs 10x better for you?
I just love how natural the voice sounds (don't even need other voices) and that it shows up in my podcast player so I don't have to switch to another app.
The voices in pocket are not as good I think.
I guess what's missing in the podcast feed, is a direct link to the source article. But else, it's perfect.
Unpoly is pretty good and complete. What I don't like is loading page specific JS/CSS via javascript. Turbolinks manages that for me and turbolink still executes inline JS.
Turbolinks falls short in providing a "framework" in how to use third party libraries - how to initialize them and how to tear them down. I finally glued together a mini-framework with hints from stack overflow, but Unpoly and their concept of compilers[1] is much more consistent.
Great work. This should be extended to podcasts and images would be nice as well. At the end, maybe there is no way anymore to get non-technical people interested into these technologies if they can get their news from a preinstalled "news-app" and "podcasts" from spotify.
I myself just wrote a little script to turn youtube channels, playlists and searches into video feeds that I can subscribe to in my podcast player. I love rss.
Illustrations would definitely help, you’re right. It’s in our issues list, and I have some ideas about simple ways to address that. Issues list is on Github incidentally https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds
Podcast: I’m not close enough to this world to know. Has podcasting answered the discovery question by centralising directories, or are podcasts still discovered “in the wild”?
I think it's because they are useful tools that a lot of webdevs see and can see themselves reasonably implementing by themselves. (Like todo lists & habit trackers)
Thanks also for using the Yak Shaving - for one, I got curious what was first, the term or the Ren & Stimpy episode illustrating the term and second, I found a description of most of my modus operandi.
