Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by hej 5144 days ago
Can someone please explain the whole story from the start? I do not understand anything.

5by5 has an app, only recently released. Why would there be another one? Is the app 5by5 has the same as this Mule one? What is this Mule thing? Is it completely new?
1 comments
klausa 5144 days ago
Dan was talking about iOS app for long, long time - it was (presumably) nearly finished, but never released - app that was released recently is new project/rewrite of the old one.

Now we know what happened with that version.

link
hej 5144 days ago
I don’t understand what you mean. I’m even more confused now. How many different 5by5 apps are there?
link
klausa 5144 days ago
Note: I listen to Talk Show only occasionally, I'm more of Hypercritical guy.

So, Dan wanted an iOS app for some time now (year? more?) - and he was working with Black Pixel (http://blackpixel.com) on that.

We don't know exactly why, but that app was never released - Dan stopped talking about it (I'm not actually sure about this, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.). Recently, he (again, not sure) wrote new app - that's what's on App Store as 5by5 app.

Parts of "old" app were apparently reused by Black Pixel while working on Mule Radio app (also by Black Pixel.).

link
pohl 5144 days ago
This app?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/5by5-radio/id520847556?mt=8

link
hej 5144 days ago
Ah, ok, now the picture is becoming a lot clearer. Thanks for the clarification!
link
jeffehobbs 5144 days ago
The 5by5 app is a lot more live-listening-focused than the Black Pixel one. The Black Pixel/Mule app is a curated podcasting client. The current 5by5 app is specifically focused on live broadcast/notification/listening. It's an interesting contrast, IMHO; I wish each app had some of the features of the other.
link
tjakab 5144 days ago
There's only one. 5by5's app is for listening to live broadcasts of shows on their network.

Presumably, they were previously working with BlackPixel to do a podcasting app for the 5by5 shows, which was never released. The Mule Radio app appears to be a re-branded version of that unreleased app.

According to this tweet by Dan Benjamin about adding podcasting to the 5by5 app, he feels other apps already do it better. This may have been the reason why they scuttled their own podcasting app and went with a live broadcast app instead:

https://twitter.com/#!/danbenjamin/status/203466535107440640

link
chmars 5144 days ago
@klausa: Wouldn't it be standard practice to remove any references to 5by5, if only for legal reasons?
link