Design goals

Problems solved by podflock

• The usual problems a podcast app solves
  • Subscribe to a podcast (RSS feed) (+ auth)
  • Listen to a podcast episode, and a queue of them
  • Download new episodes when they release
• Social podcasting
  • See whether an episode has been listened to by a friend
  • See where in an episode a friend has listened up to
  • Get notified when a friend listens to a specific part of an episode

MVP features

• Subscribe to a podcast RSS feed
• Download episodes
• Play episodes
• Every 5 minutes during playback, and on pause and play, upload status to server
• View whether friend has listened to an episode
• View where friend is in episode

Nice to have

• Playback rate controls
• Privacy controls: turn off sharing for the whole app, turn off sharing for a specific podcast
• Control auto downloads on a per-podcast basis
• Forward 30s back 10s