Second Captains

Trent Houseboat · 13-02-2017 01:20PM

Dots1982 wrote: »

Maybe its like that Breaking Bad plot were Walter got funds for his cancer treatment obstensibly through a gofundme page but it was actually the drug money being filtered through the gofundme...

Murph's reaction:

Ol' Donie · 13-02-2017 01:25PM

Took me a couple of minutes to find the link, but that's cos I skipped past it impatiently.

Deadly, all signed up.

Am i right in saying there are no actual podcasts today yet?

Trimm Trabb · 13-02-2017 01:28PM

The website went live this morning which had a link to the patreon page. They had not advertised the patreon before - those 9 people who registered over the weekend were ahead of the curve. As seems to be the tone on this thread over the last few weeks plenty of sniping and negativity.

Over 1000 in first few hours is very promising. People will have between now and Thursday before the first paid show is out so it looks as if they are going to do very well.

OldMrBrennan83 · 13-02-2017 01:34PM

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dulpit · 13-02-2017 01:35PM

Dr.Winston O'Boogie wrote: »

Been ten mins now and haven't got the link either. I copied the link from the subscription page once my payment went through though.

The link came via email for me after 5 mins or so, but appeared on the Patreon page immediately. I can find it there too when I log in...

Ol' Donie · 13-02-2017 01:49PM

So are they toally gone from the IT now??

Loafing Oaf · 13-02-2017 01:55PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

So are they toally gone from the IT now??

Well Ken has an article in it today...

lawred2 · 13-02-2017 01:58PM

anyone else having trouble creating an account on patreon?

lawred2 · 13-02-2017 02:04PM

hope patreon have sorted 'little' problems like these

https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/patreon-was-warned-of-serious-website-flaw-5-days-before-it-was-hacked/

lawred2 · 13-02-2017 02:09PM

paying in dollars is going to cost me Forex charges each month

buyer95 · 13-02-2017 02:28PM

Trying to sign up there but it's only giving me the option of paying in dollars. I thought I'd just do that but then with vat it's like 7 dollars so I'm wondering is that what everyone else paid?

Cienciano · 13-02-2017 02:32PM

They're on the front page for top creators of podcasts. Not bad considering it only went live a few hours ago

Sideshow Mark · 13-02-2017 03:07PM

buyer95 wrote: »

Trying to sign up there but it's only giving me the option of paying in dollars. I thought I'd just do that but then with vat it's like 7 dollars so I'm wondering is that what everyone else paid?

It's just under 7 dollars iirc. But what you are seeing is correct.

JuanJose · 13-02-2017 03:15PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

So are they toally gone from the IT now??

Nope. Ken & Murph will continue to provide articles for the paper.

hidinginthebush · 13-02-2017 03:22PM

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Anyone know the background music to that 'highlights reel' they've played a couple of times?

FYI Mark Horgan has a spotify playlist with all the original songs they use for their interlude pieces.

https://play.spotify.com/user/secondcaptains/playlist/46W4ELRhxXz266Ai02t8bH

yermandan · 13-02-2017 03:29PM

dulpit wrote: »

In iOS (just tried on ipad, assume it's identical on iphone):
Open Podcasts app, click the My Podcasts option at bottom

Click the + icon (top left, above the search)

Paste in the URL received from Patreon email

#simples.

Thanks a million

dastardly00 · 13-02-2017 03:36PM

dulpit wrote: »

With the URL being sent out for use, I assume there's an element of honour code in ensuring it's not shared, don't be dicks people!

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Yeah, that's the thing. They've already said you can use it in any app or device that you use your personalised url on. Hopefully people don't start acting the maggot with it.

I saw this on The Second Captains website:

Remember, your RSS code is an individual link just for you. Patreon can trace multiple users so please do not share your link as they will shut off your Patreon access, the RSS link itself and you’ll be kicked off our World Service. Now that would be terrible. Feel free to let someone else look at your customised drawing by Ken Early.

I haven't a clue if Patreon can trace multiple users using a single RSS code.

dastardly00 · 13-02-2017 03:42PM

hidinginthebush wrote: »

FYI Mark Horgan has a spotify playlist with all the original songs they use for their interlude pieces.

Cheers, I never knew that existed!

Cazale · 13-02-2017 03:43PM

hidinginthebush wrote:

FYI Mark Horgan has a spotify playlist with all the original songs they use for their interlude pieces.

Thanks for this!

hidinginthebush · 13-02-2017 03:48PM

dastardly00 wrote: »

Cheers, I never knew that existed!

No worries, I found it after nearly pulling my hair out trying to find that Alabama Shakes song

Cienciano · 13-02-2017 04:12PM

Deedsie wrote: »

1485 patrons now

$6.58/€6.20 per month

We should put bets on what it'll be at 11:00pm tonight.
I reckon 2465

Arghus · 13-02-2017 04:17PM

At least a million Ted.

dulpit · 13-02-2017 04:20PM

Anyone else think it's funny that on the day of their big launch they seem to be releasing later in the day than usual. I'd have expected one of the shows to be live by now at least...

Arghus · 13-02-2017 04:21PM

It all feels a bit like they were rushed into this move somewhat.

JuanJose · 13-02-2017 04:27PM

dulpit wrote: »

Anyone else think it's funny that on the day of their big launch they seem to be releasing later in the day than usual. I'd have expected one of the shows to be live by now at least...

Possibly 'cos they're keeping up with responding to queries about the new service (registration issues, etc) on social media & what-not.
Or else Ken Early is in doodling overdrive on caricatures aplenty for the new members :D

Dots1982 · 13-02-2017 04:41PM

JuanJose wrote: »

Possibly 'cos they're keeping up with responding to queries about the new service (registration issues, etc) on social media & what-not.
Or else Ken Early is in doodling overdrive on caricatures aplenty for the new members :D

Might be that they are in too emotional a state to concentrate, this is going very well for them i would think. They are getting well over 3 pledges a minute since they opened for business at 8am.

To give an idea of scale The Spanish football podcast which is a good pod Sid Lowe runs has 259 pledges and has been going for a year at least. Granted second captains would have much bigger overheads (the office on fitzwilliam being the main one) but they make 10k and they are laughing

bren2001 · 13-02-2017 04:44PM

Cienciano wrote: »

We should put bets on what it'll be at 11:00pm tonight.
I reckon 2465

Pffft, should be well over that by 11. I expect a big enough surge when they release their first Podcast today. No idea what number they will finish on though.

Utopia Parkway · 13-02-2017 04:58PM

So at the moment you'll have to resubscribe every month?

timaru89 · 13-02-2017 05:07PM

1,754 now.

Brian201888 · 13-02-2017 05:10PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

So at the moment you'll have to resubscribe every month?

Not sure what you mean, it'll be a monthly payment but you won't have to do anything

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