Is there a way to keep up with this story? Looks like Orpheusdroid is not on Twitter.
I am not sure who is right and who is wrong here. But I have the feeling that it is too easy for big companies to threaten small companies.
I wonder if there should be some institution where small companies and individuals can go to when threatened by big companies. And if the threat seems unreasonable, the institution would take up the fight on behalf of the small company or individual.
It is a pain in the ass to have a variable number of bytes per char.
In Ascii, you could easily know every character personally. No strange surprises.
Also no surprises while reading black on white text and suddenly being confronted with clors [1].
[1] Also no surprises when writing a comment on HN like this one and having some characters stripped. I put in a smiley as the firs "o" in colors, but it was stripped out. Looks like the makers of HN don't like UTF-8 either.
All you can do on that page is sign up. Sign-up pages are explicitely listed as a type of page that can't be a Show HN.
This sign-up page especially rubs me the wrong way as it uses a dark pattern: It grabs your email address first and then tells you that you cannot proceed without entering your credit card details.
Regarding the sales page itself: If you had a list of podcasts created this way, I would definitely look at it. Because I am a big podcast fan.
If your product has not been used yet, I would start by contacting youtubers directly and work with them to build an initial portfolio of podcasts created with Podely.
I am not sure who is right and who is wrong here. But I have the feeling that it is too easy for big companies to threaten small companies.
I wonder if there should be some institution where small companies and individuals can go to when threatened by big companies. And if the threat seems unreasonable, the institution would take up the fight on behalf of the small company or individual.