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Podhero launches a $5.99 subscription app where you can support your favorite podcasts

Podhero is offering listeners a new way to pay their favorite podcasters.

The startup behind the app is led by Pete Curley and Garret Heaton, who previously founded HipChat (sold to Atlassian) and launched Swoot last year, which was focused on helping you find new podcasts through sharing.

In a Medium postpublished today, Curley wrote that despite Swoot’s “great retention and passionate users,”…

HipChat founders launch Swoot, a social podcast app

Pete Curley and Garret Heaton, who previously co-founded group chat app HipChat and sold it to Atlassian, are officially launching their brand-new product, Swoot, today. The app makes it uncomplicated for users to recommend podcasts and see what their friends are listening to.

This might seem like a large jump from selling enterprise program — and indeed, Curley said the company was initially…