GuestLab - AI-driven guest research assistant for podcast hosts

Ayo Product Hunt fam ❤️ 3 years ago, I launched my first SaaS product, Shoutout, and I am forever grateful to y'all for supporting me massively. Fast forward to today, I won awards, grew it to $30k ARR, sold it, and am now launching another one. Not sure why, but I'm incredibly nervous and excited, so let's get into it 👇🏼 Introducing GuestLab 🔎 As a podcaster who shipped more than 100+ episodes, I spend hours and hours doing guest research(it's exhausting sometimes 😓). After going through this every week, I thought about building a simple AI-powered solution that could save a lot of time. That's how GuestLab is born 💡 6 months ago, I simply launched a landing page, got 300+ ppl on the waitlist, and started collaborating with Mubs to build the MVP. Since then, many podcasters like @lenny_rachitsky, @arvidkahl, and @mijustin have used it, given feedback, and shaped the current product 🙏🏼 Today, Mubs and I are pumped to bring GuestLab to the Product Hunt community! GuestLab is an AI-driven guest research assistant built and designed exclusively for podcasters. How does it work? 🔗 Simply drop your guest's LinkedIn profile ⚙️ Add custom inputs like episode theme, guest persona, and target audience 🤙🏼 Hit generate and sit back Based on the guest's LinkedIn activity and your custom inputs, GuestLab AI will instantly generate a well-crafted intro, insights about the guest, 10 interesting topics, and 20 insightful questions 🎙️ Bonus feature: Once the research is generated, you can export it to PDF - this is my favorite feature as I can send it to the guest for review or directly print it out for the interview 😎 ➡️ What's next: We are grateful to have paying customers before launching it here on Product Hunt ❤️ Based on their feedback, we are working on adding YouTube as a source and cooking many more features! Lastly, we're offering a 20% discount on all plans to show our gratitude to the community. Use PH20OFF at checkout 🧾 Mubs and I are here to answer any questions; we are pumped to hear what you think about GuestLab - Hit us with your feedback in the comments 🙏🏼

I've been using this for my own podcast; it's spectacular. Big congratulations :D

Congrats on the launch @mubashariqbal & @5harath. No doubt this is a game-changing tool for podcasters! 🚀🎙️

Congratulations on the launch of GuestLab! 🚀 It's incredible to see how you've transformed the tedious process of guest research into a seamless experience for podcasters. Great work!

I do my very best to not miss a "Mub's Build" –– so, let's see what he & his partner have been up to! /xB

Congrats on the launch @5harath and @mubashariqbal 🎉

Design is Lit 🔥 Congrats Sharath and Mubs 🥳

Big congrats on the launch Sharath, best of luck to you today 🚀🚀🚀

This will be such a time-saver to prepare well and focus on quality interviews. Great work!

Congrats on the launch @5harath! I'm excited to see this go live. Research backgrounds and asking insightful questions is very time consuming. Does Guestlab have applications beyond podcasting? I'd think this could be pretty valuable for prepping for any big meeting.

GuestLab is the best assistant of mine!

Congrats, Sharath and Mubs. My question to you, Sharath, is not a technical one but a practical one: how can you find time to put all the work needed into launching cool products like Shoutout, GuestLab, and so on, besides everything else you already do? You are full of energy and always working on something new. I appreciate you! :-)

Now everyone can ask as good and as spicy of questions as Sean Evans from Hot Ones 🔥🍗🔥 thanks to GuestLab grabbing all the research you could need for your upcoming guests to spark fun moments and deeper conversations.

Super congratulations, Sharath! 🚀❤️❤️

lfg!

I love GuestLab and use it do do research for my community members and for community events they participate in.

I produced podcasts for several years and this feels so helpful. Congrats on the launch!

This has officially blown my mind 💥. Found it on Ben’s Bites. In 2mins it generated my entire intro, background and questions for my interview next week. I regularly review new products, use them and they disappoint. This one I’m sharing with my communities sign me up as a partner. Combined with Capsho you just made podcasting easy.

@5harath Congrats on the product launch! Would love to have you play poker at the Founders Invitational: producthunt.com/posts/the-founders-invitational