PodTribe
How can podcasts engage better with their community? That is the question I wanted to answer with this product.
The idea:
Make a website for a podcast, which works as a multitool for engaging with your community, no longer any need to use multiple platforms, where your listeners have to create multiple accounts.
Features:
- Login and account creation for listeners.
- Profile customization options for listeners (change profile picture, set bio etc).
- Merch store, where podcasts can sell their merch or other products, both physical and digital.
- Forum that users can use to discuss topics from the podcast episodes.
- QnA section where listeners can ask questions for the podcast hosts to answer in the episodes.
- Blog feature, for podcasts to post blog articles or news about the podcast.
- Quiz system; this is supposed to be the big selling point of the software/website. The podcast can post quiz questions with answer alternatives for listeners to answer, if a listener chooses the correct option, they would receive points that can later be spent on merch or other products in the merch store.
- Admin dashboard where podcast admins can post quizes, delete quizes, deactivate quizes, check leaderboards, and also post blog posts.
I documented parts of the making of this project on X/Twitter, here are the links:
Demonstration of hiding/deactivating quiz questions from the dashboard - https://x.com/SandrEikenes/status/1846318932887547993
Demonstration of my custom profile page / editor - https://x.com/SandrEikenes/status/1846606777527267397
Demonstration of being rewarded points when answering quizes, the leaderboard, and visiting other listeners profiles - https://x.com/SandrEikenes/status/1847037629734309936
View of the merch store frontend - https://x.com/SandrEikenes/status/1847674722533724516
This is a white-label software, meaning that each podcast will get their own website based on this one "template".
The website is currently not hosted anywhere, and the git repo is private, so you will have to see my X posts for a demonstration of the project :)
Technical information:
The websites front and backend is made using TypeScript and React. NEXT.js is used as the framework, and TailwindCSS is used for styling.
The database is provided by Supabase, and the authentication is provided by Clerk even though I made my own login, register, and profile pages.