Delivered engagementMedia & Content · $25k – $35k
Podurama

Podcasts, Perfected

Delivered engagement. Coralsoft designed and built this product end to end; figures below retain their evidence level.

iOSAndroidWebTVReact NativeExpo SDK 54Expo Router
Podurama — product interface
Podurama — product interface
The situation

What was in place before we started.

Podurama is a free, ad-free podcast player available across virtually every platform, with a catalog of over a million shows — pairing broad discovery and personalized recommendations with power-user extras like note-taking, listening stats and cross-device sync.

Podurama is a free, ad-free podcast player available across virtually every platform, with a catalog of over a million shows — pairing broad discovery and personalized recommendations with power-user extras like note-taking, listening stats and cross-device sync.

Engagement
4 months reconstructed
Team
3 people
Budget
$25k – $35k reconstructed
Year
2026
Used by
Commuters · Students · Professionals · Language learners
Core loop
Discover, subscribe, queue, listen anywhere
Coverage
Recommendations, playlists, notes, stats, custom RSS
Platforms
iOS, Android, Web, Windows & macOS · free & ad-free
Implementation architecturereconstructed
React NativeExpo SDK 54Expo RouterTypeScriptNativeWindTanStack QueryReact Hook Form + ZodCloudflare R2ffmpeg pipelineTypesenseNode.js + HonoDrizzle ORM + PostgreSQL
Challenges

Each constraint, and what we did about it.

Constraint

Shallow discovery & search

What we did

Rich discovery & recommendations

Constraint

No cross-device resume

What we did

Resume seamlessly across devices

Constraint

Clumsy queue management

What we did

Smart queues & playlists

Constraint

No silence-skip or boost

What we did

Silence skip, speed, volume boost

Constraint

History & favorites buried

What we did

History, favorites & bookmarks

Constraint

Stuck on a single platform

What we did

Phone, web, TV, Android Auto & CarPlay

Listening is continuous; the player should be too — across every screen and every commute.

Results

Outcome, with the source of every figure.

4-month engagement
+54%
Weekly listening minutes per user.
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
+49%
Cross-device resume sessions.
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
~4.x★
On both App Store & Google Play.
third-partyCorroborated in the media research doc's Podurama section.
1M+
Shows, free and ad-free.
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Free
Ad-free across platforms
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Sync
Resume across devices ↑
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Notes
Episode note-taking
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
RSS
Custom feeds added
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.

By making discovery richer and listening continuous, Podurama turned a basic player into a daily habit that follows listeners everywhere they go.

Roadmap

How it was sequenced.

4 monthsreconstructed delivery
Month 1

Discovery & shaping

Discovery with heavy listeners; profiling discovery and sync gaps.

  • Discovery
Months 2–3

Core build

Search, subscriptions, queue, downloads, playback tuning.

  • Playback
Month 4

Launch & iterate

Cross-device sync, Chromecast, Auto/CarPlay, stats & favorites.

  • Offline
  • Everywhere

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