Season
Long form journalism and audio drama podcasts.
Season (the podcast player for limited series and audio drama) is now available in the App Store in all countries. I spent about 1000 hours on this project over the last 20 months and it's been great fun. Now comes the hard part of getting people to use it :)
I pulled the plug and released the app to the App Store. I know that there are still some bad bugs in the app but I've had a hard time getting people to download via TestFlight. Now that the app is in the store I hope to get more usage and thus more crash reports, which will make it easier to weed out bugs. I did however limit the release to Sweden (my country of residence). App Review went rather smoothly. I did get a strange question about "ownership of content" but after explaining the the concept of the free and open podcast Eco-system, with the Apple Podcast directory at it's core, the app passed.
After fooling around with a bunch of free app landing page templates I settled on using automatic-app-landing-page, which is very convenient. You just fork it GitHub and it gets served by GitHub pages. And of course you need to edit your DNS to get it to use your domain. Check out it out seasonpods.com!
I announced a public beta in a number of relevant Facebook groups, attaching a short description, a screen cast and a TestFlight link.
There's probably 20K people in those groups combined but I only got 2 people to actually install the beta via TestFlight.
So the main take away is that people are not that curious about trying out random beta versions of apps that happen to show up in their Facebook-feed. Who would have guessed? 😀
If you're differently inclined you can use this TestFlight link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/7UKevRTn
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Hey Oivvio,
I clicked the link but no information is provided about your product. I then went through your profile and found Season, but when I clicked the URL, I get a security warning (Google Chrome). Once I proceed past the security warning, the website redirects to Traggle, and this throws up another security warning. After proceeding past this one, I receive an error 502.
My 0.02c - you need to make the download process frictionless AND provide company information in a trustworthy way. If your post had some details on your product + a web link to find out more, I might have gone ahead and installed it. There isn't anything compelling about downloading something with no knowledge of what it is, so try to be compelling!
Best of luck to you :)
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Ah, well I guess you clicked the Season-link since it's displayed here on Indiehackers, but I posted the original request for beta testers on FB together with a two paragraph description, a 4 minute screen cast and a TestFlight-link. So these people didn't have to option to stumble on to my my non-existing landing page.
But yes, point taken, I should definitely get my landing page up. It's been on my to do-list for a while.
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No problem - didn't mean to sound harsh, just trying to provide actionable advice. I'd be genuinely interested in learning about the product!
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