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I want to turn your idea into a demo

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I'm going to compete in the LAUNCH Hackathon at the end of the month, and want to present a demo that wows the judges.

I'm doing this because I work with a talented team, and we've decided to show rather than tell what we're capable of.

So what are some ideas you'd love to see a demo of? If you submit through https://launch.appoutloud.com and I pick your idea, then you'll have full ownership of the demo.

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Hey guys. I listen to many podcast and I'm even considering starting one with some friends. The problem is that there are no great apps in which you could do all the podcast on them instead of using several softwares.

It would be awesome if there was a podcast-creator-app, with already back sound tracks, templates, interviews questions, story telling ideas, ways to do conclusions , even quotes.

Give the opportunity toeveryone to be able to make their own podcast

What if you could add your own advertiser on the go? Hear a podcast and you find a great moment to ad an ad of your company, you want to ad it and pay for it. How can I get into the audio and get my ad there, pay for it and go. Just one click to ad your advertising to that podcast, you put your credit card and you just talk or upload your prerecord ad. This will create revenue for people that create great podcasts but don't know how to market them.

Issues to consider: 1-How this will affect the quality of the podcast ( specific places to upload the ad)

2-The ad must be accepted (so it won't get troll or stuff not related) but it should be smooth to add your credit card and audio and get in. (stripe?)

Flexibility: You don't need pre establish format. You don't need a contract or pay for every episode, you pay for that one because you felt it.

See you!

(if you want to talk more about it @JDcarlu :) )

I'm picturing something like this http://www.soundboardarchive.com/game/603/George-Takei.html but with audio and recording functions as well?

A quick google search turned up http://www.mobilepodcaster.com/ which is somewhat similar. What's the killer feature that sets your idea above this one ? Also, what are your ideas for an impressive demo of this idea?

The capability of giving anyone a monetization channel. Mobile Podcaster is really good, but its just a recording/publishing app. The main features they have is to add intro and publish directly to WordPress. There is no editing to add commercials or ads that can monetize your podcast. Also the feature I'm talking about should be from the listener to the producer (not the other way around). So if I listen to your podcast and I want to advertise my site in it, I just select a "free space" on your episode and record myself or upload my ad.

As a related aside, it's often possible that the software you want exists. It's extremely tiresome and boring and frankly awful to weed through and try them all out.

As an example, I tried to find some good RC helicopter simulator software recently. Horrendous. Top scoring links are talking about software from the 90s. Stuff like that.

Solve that issue and you'll probably do really well.

http://calacanis.com/2015/01/27/why-hackathons-are-important... is great for inspiration.

Try to work on your own ideas.

One of the things I noticed early on was that I always pushed myself that extra mile when I was working on my own ideas.

It's actually intrinsically more rewarding to be able to visualize your idea coming to life.

I completely agree with this. One skill that I pride myself in is being able to internalize others' ideas. For example, I'm working on a startup right now (it helps that I have equity), and am pretty happy when I'm still up coding at 5am because I just want it to work perfectly.

Part of the reason for requesting others' ideas for this, is that there are so many domain experts for domains other than technology that I want to meet,learn from, and ultimately help.

Is there any other way of submitting, apart from FB? Have deactivated FB for more than year. Active on Twitter though.

We stuck with facebook to keep it simple, but I agree it would be really nice to login via twitter. This is definitely on our roadmap, but I don't think we'll get to it for this time. If you have a great idea and think you can get people to vote for it (where they're on facebook), then feel free to email it to appoutloud@coshx.com and I'll try to enter it in on your behalf.

thank you, will do that

I got this message when I tried to submit:

"The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to."

You have an email address? I'll just send you the concept...

Thanks for reporting this. It looks like the database connection went down just as you were submitting. I'll switch to a better database tonight to ensure the connection stays up. Would you mind trying to submit again?

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