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24 alternatives to Podcastsaver.com – a search engine testbench dressed as a podcast site
Hey HN, I submitted PodcastSaver (https://podcastsaver.com) before but the reason it's interesting now is that I've started converting it into a live search engine test-bench. I've discussed it a bit here[0], and this idea has been kicking around in my head for a while so I got a chance to do some related writing about it with Supabase[1]. The basic idea is to use a modest piece of the podcast index[2] as a place to test out different new age search engines against each other. So far there are two engines running: - Postgres FTS + pg_trgm (tuned -- indices are there, I did some…
Podcastsaver.com is a podcast search engine that functions as a testbench for comparing different search technologies. Users can search a subset of the podcast index while the site simultaneously runs multiple search… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Podcastsaver.com – a search engine testbench dressed as a podcast site launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The smart search engine for Lenny’s Podcast
2023 · broadn.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, wanted to share a project that I’ve been working on recently. PodText allows users to find anything said on a podcast. You can also listen and share clips to a specific part of the podcast audio, simply by highlighting the text of that part. Currently there are just over 25k podcast episodes and I’m adding a lot more in the coming weeks (yes my GPU bill is painful). In order to monetize it, I’m building a sponsorship database to help sponsors find podcasts and vice versa. This will be sold in the form of a $99/month “PodText Business” subscription. I bet I could charge a lot more…
2023 · podtext.ai · its alternatives →
- 3IM
2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
- 4WM
2018 · fluiddata.com · its alternatives →
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Find anything inside your favorite podcasts
2020 · podcasts.captionapp.net · its alternatives →
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Podcast API▲223The best podcast API trusted by 13,544 companies and developers since 2017. Search 3,808,666 podcasts and 193,635,704 episodes by people or topics.
2020 · listennotes.com · its alternatives →
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Extract answers from every podcast episode
2023 · podai.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Generate a website for your podcast from your RSS feed
2022 · transistor.fm · its alternatives →
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Podsqueeze 2.0▲428Repurpose your podcast into clips, shownotes, blog and more
2024 · podsqueeze.com · its alternatives →
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- 14FT
2020 · atshpthmkhc-app.azurewebsites.net · its alternatives →
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- 16FS
Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off! I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.
2022 · search.feep.dev · its alternatives →
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2022 · podbabble.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · listennotes.com · its alternatives →
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Analyze, compare, and grow your podcast smarter.
Nov 2025 · audiosage.org · its alternatives →
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PodcastGPT▲157Instant insights from podcasts, free
2023 · podcast-gpt.up.railway.app · its alternatives →
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I built a podcast search engine that performs a semantic search within thousands of podcasts transcriptions. Technologies used are: OpenAI Whisper for transcriptions, BERT embeddings and FAISS as a vector database
2022 · voilib.com · its alternatives →
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