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Founder here: I think that many people already skip the ads using the 30 second skip forward button. I know I did before building this app. I'm also thinking
by adskipprod 7y ago
Founder here:
I think that many people already skip the ads using the 30 second skip forward button. I know I did before building this app.
I'm also thinking about safety -- people driving their car and reaching for their phone to skip the ads.
- iamdbtoo 7y agoThe biggest issue here for me is that you're charging for this app. You're basically asking me to pay you for your hard work of removing ads from someone else's hard work of creating content.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoYou're welcome to pay someone else making the content, aren't you? And then throw this developer another $1.99 so that the other creator doesn't have to put in more hard work to make a special ad-free stream for you.
- bilekas 7y agoI would happily pay some of the non spotify / subscription based podcasts I enjoy, infact I do through patreon etc. If the content provider offers it, and I want to give it, cool. But paying for this, has nothing to do with the provider.. At all actually. All money goes to someone who filtered out Adverts, if you wanna have a better argument you could say : can't anyone do this: And yes, but its the time and effort that goes into it, maybe release it open source and free so others can build a network of methods to remove more ads and even support the content provider without them needing to invest in a 'special ad-free' streaming service. Nobody is telling you not to use this, just their own reasons for not.
- adskipprod 7y agoIt's not removing the ads. The ads are still in there. It skips over them. I think that many people are already pressing the 30 second forward button to skip. This app skips for you automatically, at exactly the right place. It saves the user from having to do it manually.
- bilekas 7y agoIt's an automation tool, and I would argue you were clever to do it that way because later maintenance is easier, but because of that... The real question is: Why are you charging for this ? It really would have been an attractive project to play with. But it looks like you just wanted a 'snatch and grab'. Again, well done: You did the work but I wont be participating.
- ajayyy 7y agoThey made an LLC
- adskipprod 7y agoIf it was free, you would be fine with it?
- PascLeRasc 7y agoCome on, safety is a huge stretch. You built this because you want to profit off of other peoples' work.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoAn ad-supported internet is not an open internet. It is an internet of content that caters to the sponsors with the deepest pockets, for fear of losing their attention.
- adskipprod 7y ago"safety is a huge stretch" : Millions of people listen to podcasts while driving. It's probably the most common time to listen. People skip the ads. Are you sure that's a stretch?
- gilrain 7y agoYeah, you're a real hero. /s
- cameronbrown 7y agoThis is a massive stretch - anyone who hates adverts enough to risk crashing a car shouldn't be driving one. They're annoying - but this is childish behaviour. Honest question: were you expecting this backlash - I would assume you wouldn't have used a throwaway account otherwise.
- adskipprod 7y agoI don't view it as backlash. It's interesting and necessary conversation. I want to hear what the HN community thinks.
- cameronbrown 7y agoPodcast ads are a dream compared to the web - this will damage that if your product is even half successful. If the same was done for TV on a mass scale then you'd sure as shit see invasive DRM in TVs ready to stop you from altering the stream during an ad break.