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Comment by fredrivett | Hacker News Reader

Hey Zapt02.

Great to hear you want to subscribe! We literally launched yesterday and haven't got it out there on the different platforms yet.

There are two options here:

1. We send out a really small, simple weekly email with the podcast episode in. You can subscribe on the homepage: http://hitreply.co/

2. We're on Soundcloud, so you can follow us there: https://soundcloud.com/hitreply/episode-0-yet-another-startu...

3. We're on Twitter and will announce when we've got the platforms (itunes, overcast, etc.) up and running. http://twitter.com/hitreplypod

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An RSS feed will "get it out there on different platforms" for you. You won't have to do anything else, except submit that feed to the different aggregators (iTunes being the largest).

I'm glad SoundCloud at least seems to generate a feed, because the content sounds interesting. But if I were forced to use SoundCloud themselves, I would never actually be able to listen to your podcast. I don't want to install another app, and listening through a mobile browser sounds like a nightmare. Emails are also a no go, because this is a solved problem. There are apps and ecosystems already built around subscribing and listening to podcasts. Having yours outside of that ecosystem is a hinderance to adoption.

EDIT: And PocketCasts seems to be rejecting the SoundCloud generated RSS. So I guess I'll have to wait for a real one before I can subscribe.

Same with overcast.

Thanks renolc, appreciate the advice here. Honestly as we only launched yesterday I hadn't gotten round to submitting to the platforms just yet. I only posted on here on a whim, I didn't expect to be towards the top of the homepage!

I'll be making submission to platforms a top priority. If I can be of any help in notifying you when thats ready let me know (we'll obviously tell our email list, at which point anyone could unsubscribe).

Just start by create an RSS feed, that should only take a few hours. It is so much more universally friendly anyway.

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