Generate custom AI podcast recaps and turn them into a newsletter
Hi HN - I love podcasts. I listen to them whenever I can. Yet I don’t know how people listen to more than a few per week, especially when the episodes are multiple hours long. I made Podmob so I don’t have to miss out on useful insights if I don’t have time to listen to every podcast I’d like to. Podmob uses AI to generate recaps for any podcast episode. You can choose between a few styles and lengths of the recaps you want to generate (paragraphs, chapters, bullet points, top quotes). Podmob sends a recap to your email as soon as a new episode is released for any podcast you follow or you…
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Hi HN - I love podcasts. I listen to them whenever I can. Yet I don’t know how people listen to more than a few per week, especially when the episodes are multiple hours long. I made Podmob so I don’t have to miss out on useful insights if I don’t have time to listen to every podcast I’d like to. Podmob uses AI to generate recaps for any podcast episode. You can choose between a few styles and lengths of the recaps you want to generate (paragraphs, chapters, bullet points, top quotes). Podmob sends a recap to your email as soon as a new episode is released for any podcast you follow or you can also recap individual episodes as well. A few other features that I have found to be helpful: 1. Citations: You can click on any insight or quote Podmob generates for an episode and see it in the context of the episode transcript. You can flip through all the sources used to generate a given bullet point and start listening to the episode from any one of them. 2. Audio recaps: All Podmob generated recaps also come voice enabled. Podmob can create a custom RSS feed so you can listen to all your recaps in any podcast player. 3. AI Q&A. I have found recaps and citations cover about 90% of the content of an episode, however there are times when you want to dive further into a certain topic. Each episode comes with its own AI assistant to ask questions to or generate custom insights/summaries from the episode. This is a paid only feature for now to save on costs. You can see an example of a recap here ( https://www.podmob.com/p/1545953110/e/1a1a3dd8-db64-49f3-956... ) and there is a free tier where you can follow two podcasts and get two individual recap credits. The paid options are to cover api costs for the time being. Give it a try and let me know what you think! Ultimately this is not intended to replace listening to the podcasts you love — nothing will beat that. And obviously some genres are better suited than others (LLMs aren’t great at comedy, for example). However I have found this is a useful filter to see which episodes you want to listen to, as well as a “some is better than none” for the podcasts you wouldn’t have time to listen to anyway.
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