Podio - Your personal news radio, built around your interests
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Choose what you care about (work, interests, stocks, sports, crypto, your teams) and Podio builds a live station around it. Hit play, you're on air. At the Explore, Hot Topics cover what's breaking; daily and weekly channels handle the rest. No feeds, no scrolling.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Samet. Building Podio with @armanaksoy34
Quick context on why this exists: we kept opening news apps, scrolling for ten minutes, and walking away more anxious without actually knowing more. The feeds aren't broken. They're just doing a different job than the one we wanted them to do.
So we tried audio. You tell Podio what you follow (your industry, a few stocks, the team you support, whatever it is) and it builds a live news station around that. Hit play, you're on air.
It works like a real radio, not a podcast app. There's no episode list to manage. You press play and there's news on what you picked.
Inside the app right now:
🎙 Custom stations you build yourself
🔥 Hot Topics: ready-made stations on whatever's moving today
📅 Daily and weekly channels that show up without you asking
We've been at this about a year and shipped to early users a few months back. The product changes most weeks based on what people tell us, which is why I'm here.
Try it: 📱 iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/podio-news-podcast-maker/id6747738443 🌐 Web: listenpodio.com
What I'd really value: spend a few minutes with it, then tell me what you'd change. If it clicks for you, an upvote means a lot to a two-person team. If it doesn't, please tell me why. That's the more useful comment anyway.
Huge thanks to @armanaksoy34 for being a relentless co-founder and to everyone on PH for taking a look ❤️
Point about scrolling news apps for ten minutes and just walking away anxious is so incredibly accurate. Endless doomscrolling is a terrible way to start the morning. Replacing that with a passive, hands-free radio format is a brilliant concept. @samet_sezer
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Cool! It reminds me one guy who built something like podcast from tweets. This is also an interesting idea :)
@busmark_w_nika Thank you for the comment :) wow, that actually sounds really cool
@busmark_w_nika Haha that’s actually a really cool comparison 😄Appreciate the support Nika! 🙌
Tired of doomscrolling news feeds and wasting time?
We've built Podio so you can just hit play and stay informed hands-free.Podio turns your interests into a live, personalized audio stream:
Perfect for commuting, workouts, cooking, or deep work.
No screens, no algorithms fighting for your attention. It's early, and I'd genuinely love your honest feedback (what's working, what's missing, content quality, etc.).
Many thanks to my co-founder @samet_sezer who made this possible.
Can't wait for the feedback and comments today!
Try it free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/podio-news-podcast-maker/id6747738443
Came across this today and the concept is interesting. I like the idea of not having to scroll through feeds but I am a bit unsure how well it will actually match my specific interests without feeling too generic. Will give it a try and see if it actually feels personal or not. Btw good luck with the launch.
@sidraarifali Hey Sidra, thank you so much for the kind comment and for giving Podio a try!
We’ve put a lot of effort into making the personalization extremely granular. You can go into very fine details when specifying your interests.
I’d love to hear how it matches (or doesn’t match) your specific topics once you’ve used it for a bit. Any feedback (positive or critical) will directly help us improve the algorithm.
Really appreciate you stopping by and good luck with your own projects too!
I really like this concept. Finally an app that builds me a live station with exactly the topics I care about - no endless scrolling through feeds.
Quick question: How personalized does the content get over time? Does it learn from what I skip or listen to longer?
@hsr88 Hey Krystian, thank you so much for your comment :)
We are working on the memory of the agents to increase personalization over time, we will launch an agent training feature for hyper-personalization soon.
As of now, you can select topics as specific as you want and your unique set of news will be curated instantly.
@anusuya_bhuyan This might be the new tagline ngl 😂 thanks Anusuya!
I need one more feature!
There's no way to flag a segment in the moment (when i'm listening to an audio channel, a headline or insight catches my ear, I want to mark it for later/tell the system I want more about this). A single-tap bookmark that surfaces a saved list post-session would close that loop. Right now the AI generates, I consume, and nothing I actually noticed feeds back in.
Curious whether intent capture is on the roadmap, or whether the personalization layer is purely implicit!
@rosetta_zidian_guo Hey Rosetta, thanks a lot for your feedback :)
We had a different plan for hyperpersonalization of the personal channels, This actually makes a lot of sense too, so why not both!
So, ideally the feature you mentioned should work while listening right?
I've thought of couple features that may work for this case below. Can you please tell which one would you prefer?
- Interactive mode ; so users can jump in either by text/voice and ask for more content about the specific news
- Bring in the textual content of the news so users can tap on it and read the details.
- An upvote button so the model understands what you like and fetches more news in that area for the next playtimes.
Looking forward to your reply :) Really appreciate the feedback and thoughts!
Mailwarm
Where does the content come from, like podcasts and news sources, and can you blacklist certain outlets?
@karimbenkeroum The content comes from news sites and X. We have blaclisted sites to protect the generated content. Would you like to add personal blacklists for your personal channel? If so, can you please tell why you would like this so we can have a better understanding of the need and develop the right feature :)
Thanks a lot for the comment and feedback Karim, really appreciate it!
Mailwarm
@bengeekly Thank you for your comment!
We pull news from both local and global sources across the web, along with updates and posts from X.
Regarding personal resources, how would you like to add your own?
One option is letting users input whitelisted websites and specific X accounts to follow. Would that cover what you had in mind, or were you thinking of something different?
Really appreciate the feedback!
Mailwarm
@armanaksoy34 Why do they need to be whitelisted ?