[realize]

I'm interested to see what he comes up with. Given their main job, playing podcasts, most existing apps seem good enough. I use Downcast, and generally like it. There are some things I would prefer worked differently, but 10 people might have 10 different sets of minor annoyances, so I wonder if Overcast will be better for me.

The thing is, I'll probably buy it just to see anyway, and so will many others. For Marco, a customer that buys his app to try it out gives him the same (or more) profit as someone who uses it regularly. As long as it's good enough to suit some people best, he'll have a steady stream of people buying it to see if it suits them best.

[theguycalledtom]

Ideally, when you wake up in the morning, a great podcast app will open with an auto-generated playlist featuring your favourite podcasts that have new episodes released for that day, already downloaded and ready to go.

If you can't just press play on your podcast app and jump in your car or on your treadmill and have it play something you want to listen to without having to micro manage it beforehand, it's not a great podcast app.

I know of no podcast apps that can do this yet. So there is a lot of work to do in this field.