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Hi everyone! Thanks for checking out Capiche FM. It's so early that we haven't yet come up with the best way to feature shows on the homepage, which seems to be a sticking point in some of the first comments on here.

Here's a public page where you can see some of the shows currently being hosted on Capiche FM: https://capiche.fm/discover

And here's a link to our changelog which some commenters said describes our product better than the homepage: https://www.notion.so/capiche/What-s-new-on-Capiche-FM-e56f6...

Appreciate all the feedback!

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It's a pretty neat idea. For homepage content consider bringing some of your help page content over. Your help page is great, concise description about what it is and how to use it. The skateboarding heart person is neat, but I'd rather you tell me about the product.

Hows the audio quality? / Can I broadcast via the Internet instead of a voice call? One thing that always bugs me with classic, terrestrial talk radio is when a guest caller calls in with tinny, heavily compressed audio vs the hosts crisp clean audio. I suppose it wouldn't be as noticeable if the hosts have similar audio quality to the guests.

Matt from the Capiche team here—Thanks, appreciate the feedback!

You can check the audio quality in some recent broadcasts, including those featured on these shows that were live today: https://capiche.fm/loup, https://capiche.fm/saas/, and https://capiche.fm/whybehindx. It's powered by phone calls, so for now the quality is exactly what you get from a phone call—and everyone talking, hosts and guests alike, have the same quality. We're working on improving that though!

The quality is pretty good actually, I guess it depends on the caller's phone and reception. After listening bits of those shows, I think having everyone on, more or less, the same audio equipment addresses my complaint about old school radio. I always found my self having to turn up the volume to hear call-ins, and then turn it back down when the host started talking again. Having everyone dialed in via phone normalizes the audio across the host and guest somewhat. Keep up the good work!

Was excited to see one of my friends featured on the homepage! What a small world. Ha!

Excellent idea (and great name). Best of luck!

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