I couldn’t get past the first few seconds of each speaker repeating the question and their slow inefficient speaking. What an infuriating way to consume information, what’s wrong with just plain text? Especially since some of these people basically repeat the same things. What’s next, a video version so we can waste bandwidth on their pointless hand gestures and facial expressions? Respect people’s attention spans.
Most speakers on Quest haven't published their answers anywhere else before because it's easier to create something sincere and personal using audio. Since people already listen to audio advice in for instance podcasts, we think it works.
Anyway, I'm genuinely sorry for your frustration. I hope your day progresses smoothly otherwise.
Dude come down, if you don’t like it move on, no body is forcing you to listen to them. Stop being so entitled, if you think you know more and are better than the people on Quest go on and build your successful business on your own.
Hi, founder of Quest here. Yeah I guess it is! We're building an audio Q&A app where experts answer questions in short audio clips. We're starting with career advice and are already hosting 100+ speakers so far.
Ouch, that first one is definitely a bug. As for duration, that's definitely something that's missing and we can fix it by showing a proper timeline. You can already click on someone's profile to listen only to their answers, but we could make that easier to find and do as well.
Short, dense podcasts aren't unusual. Scientific American's "60 Second Science" is a good example. "NPR News Now" is just a few minutes long and updated hourly.
Two things I'd like to see
1) show me the progress of the clip I'm listening to. You've got the length of the clip, but I have to listen to the whole thing, I can't skip through it. I can barely get through the first clip which is only 1:30
2) let me play at a faster rate. I'd easily listen to this at 1.25x or 1.5x
If you like snippets in text consider the unix fortune tradition, I maintain https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup which produces bitesized memes in glorious ANSI color. Some startuppy, mostly software architecture/design focus, some more broad anthropology/history. Aim is a high signal to noise ratio and consistently inspirational/curveball thinking. Looking for more OS package maintainers.
