OSCAR MERRY | Fountain 0.6 Updates, Cross App Comments & V4V Versus Advertising

22 Jan • 1hr 27m

Boost episode

Show Notes

Oscar (the cofounder of the Fountain podcasting app) is back on for the 3rd time after a long break between our chats.In Conversation #81, Oscar and I discuss: all the new features in the 0.6 edition, strategic decisions he is making whilst building the app, the complexity of trying to integrate comments from across different platforms, ways in which the onboarding is becoming much easier, whether the 'value for value' model can work for a business and my hesitation to participate with advertising in any manner.As always, I hope you enjoy. Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro to Oscar(1:04) - Fountain compared to last year(2:51) - Payments & Zebedee(5:15) - Time spent developing(7:31) - Fiat to Bitcoin within the app(11:47) - Attention vs Value as the signal(16:59) - YouTube comment system(21:16) - Podcasting 2.0 comments(29:08) - Tags in the namespace(30:56) - Moderation & free speech(36:14) - Opt-in organ donations(38:02) - Adoption of P2.0 tags(43:38) - Fountain Lightning addresses(49:41) - V4V as a business(56:06) - Fountain Premium(58:21) - Advertising on Fountain(1:00:52) - My satvertising conflict(1:14:35) - BTC, KYC and ethics(1:24:04) - Value For Value podcast season 3Connect with Oscar & Fountain:Website: https://fountain.fm/Twitter: https://twitter.com/fountain_appOscar's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MerryOscarConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Activity

@petar

250,000 sats

23 Jan

Thanks for all your hard work Oscar, I love what you're doing with Fountain so far and the future looks even brighter. Thanks Kyrin for covering my topics! MereMortals Podcast totally rocks. 🤙

@merryoscar

23 Jan

Thanks Petar that means a lot! 🙏 And thanks for all your support so far in helping us get the word out!

@shortstr0k3

25 Jan

thank you for everything

@meremortalspodcast

23 Jan

Thanks Petar, you're the big baller of my heart! 😍

@user7049125689369014

25 Jan

thx for sats & app

@adamc1999

25,777 sats

22 Jan

Boosting my love to you

@meremortalspodcast

23 Jan

Thanks so much Adam, I feel it 🥰

@genebean

2,222 sats

30 Jan

I have Volunteer Technologist on Buzzsprout too and I do splits by having my wallet on Fountain and claiming the show there. It isn’t ideal, but as soon as an episode is live I can go into it and add the split for my guest. Naturally, you can also do show level splits. I do wish there was an api to set the splits though so I could do it programmaticly

@lyceum

2,222 sats

22 Jan

Row of ducks 🦆🦆🦆👋🏻 boost. 2222 Satoshis. Martin Lindeskog, Tea Party Media.

@meremortalspodcast

23 Jan

Quack quack, thanks Martin!

@mcintosh

2,100 sats

24 Jan

great interview!! In giving thought to Facebook/instagram - remember if you aren’t paying for the service than you ( your eyeballs ) are the payment. Twitter, Facebook, instagram, Google whatever only serves up content so that you view ads. it is literally that simple in my opinion.

@meremortalspodcast

28 Jan

Yep super important to remember that. Nothing in life is free

@lyceum

1,776 sats

22 Jan

Liberty 🗽 boost of 1776 Satoshis. Martin Lindeskog, Tea Party Media.

@meremortalspodcast

23 Jan

Appreciate you making the effort to resend these boosts Martin, you're the best!

@thetonewrecker

1,212 sats