Yourcast 2.0 - AI summaries with tap-to-jump timestamps, right in Telegram
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Yourcast is a Telegram bot for podcasts: search a show, tap to subscribe, and new episodes arrive as audio right in your chat. 2.0 adds AI summaries with timestamps you can tap to jump in the audio, questions about any episode, feeds that repair themselves, files up to 2 GB, OPML import and payments in Telegram Stars. Free: 10 episodes a week on demand. Open source (GPL v3). In English, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Hebrew.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Konstantin, the maker of Yourcast.
I listen to podcasts on the go and live in Telegram, so I wanted new episodes to just arrive there.
It's for people who live in Telegram and don't want one more app just for podcasts.
Yourcast was #10 of the day here 4 years ago. After that it mostly ran on its own. In the last 7 weeks it changed more than in the 5 years before: 85 merged pull requests (~170 commits, against 55 in those 5 years), written mostly with LLM.
What's new in 2.0:
• AI summaries: the gist and key points with timestamps. Tap a time and the audio jumps there. Then ask anything about the episode.
• Tap a popular show to subscribe, and its latest episode arrives right away. Paste an Apple Podcasts link, or move from another app with an OPML file.
• Feeds that fix themselves: a broken or moved feed is rechecked daily and its new address found.
• Episodes up to 2 GB, downloads that resume where they stopped.
• Plans in Telegram Stars: free 10 episodes a week, Bronze $1 with automatic delivery, Relay $5 with 30 hours of summaries a month.
Try it: t.me/yourcastbot?start=src_ph
It's open source (GPL v3), PRs welcome: github.com/amadevstudio/yourcastbot
Feedback that would help most:
1. Is a summary enough to decide whether an episode is worth your hour?
2. What, if anything, stopped you in the first minute?
3. What would make you move from your current podcast app?
I've been going on podcasts as a guest lately, and before each one I listen to a few of the host's episodes to get a feel for the show. Being able to ask questions about an episode would save me real time there. Can I ask across several episodes of one show at once, like "what does this host usually ask guests"?
@artemkorchunov hello, thank you for the feedback! For now, Yourcastbot indexes an episode's audio on demand. But I see several options to fulfil your request:
Ask about last month audios, but initial indexing may take a lot of time;
Answer all-time using already indexed audios and episodes description: may work bad if podcasts don't provide them.
Please, tell me what do you think about second option? In general it should work well.
@kinton Got it, episodes get indexed on demand. The second option works for me if I can pick a show and it indexes its few most recent episodes first.
@artemkorchunov Shipped a first version! Open any show in the bot and tap "Ask about the podcast". It answers from the episode descriptions plus the episodes already transcribed, and gives you download buttons for the episodes it mentions. Auto-indexing the latest episodes isn’t there yet but . Give it a try and tell me if the answers are good enough for prepping as a guest!