Podpod turns the things you don’t have time to read into podcasts. Just add podpod.me/ in front of any article URL, or forward a newsletter to your personal podpod email and it’s turned into an episode with AI hosts and delivered straight to your podcast app.
Hey 👋
We’re super excited to be launching podpod today and it feels extra special as we’ve been part of PH for over 10 years!
We built podpod because, like many of you we ended up with tons of interesting articles and newsletters we never had time to read. And we already spend way too much time in front of screens so we wanted an easier more human way to keep up.
With all the incredible new TTS tools out there, we thought: why not turn articles into podcasts and deliver them straight to your podcast app? So we did.
🎧 Just add podpod.me/ before any URL, or forward a newsletter to your personal Podpod email. Your article will be discussed by two AI hosts and appear in your podcast app.
💸 Use the code PODPODHUNT for a free month on us.
We’d love feedback from this amazing community. A few things we’re especially keen to hear about:
- Does the script accurately summarise the article or newsletter?
- Do the voices feel natural and engaging?
- What other types of content would you love to hear as a podcast?
You can reach us directly at contact@podpod.me or find us on X or Threads.
Thanks so much for checking us out!
– Max & Simon
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@simon____brown if I queue 5+ articles at once, does Podpod space them out like a playlist or drop them all at once into the app?
@hamza_afzal_butt as they are generated the RSS feed that your podcast app uses is updated for each one - all separate podcasts. You can manually refresh your podcast app but they'll be there straight away :)
@simon____brown@hamza_afzal_butt@pixel_arts this would be awesome. i can imagine bundling all the articles in an X or Threads list / topic into a podcast to stay up to speed on a topic area. You can set how often you want it to refresh. Almost like your personal Perplexity Discover feed.
This is great! Podcasting the articles is a nice way to tackle info overload. I'll definitely explore this. The two-host format sounds really engaging. Do you have plans to let users customize the AI hosts? Like personality, voices, way of speaking, language, etc?
@pranay12 great thank you! yeah we'd love to see how to develop this, I'm sure you've seen https://www.openai.fm/ where you can really be quite specific on style. We're struggling a bit on quality from OpenAI's voices, when it drops below 'studio' quality voice it makes the podcast a little bit harder to listen to. I'm sure the tech will catch up soon though!
MoonPay
@simon____brown if I queue 5+ articles at once, does Podpod space them out like a playlist or drop them all at once into the app?
MoonPay
@hamza_afzal_butt as they are generated the RSS feed that your podcast app uses is updated for each one - all separate podcasts. You can manually refresh your podcast app but they'll be there straight away :)
@simon____brown thats great love it 🙌🏽
Podpod
@simon____brown @hamza_afzal_butt We're currently working on the ability to bundle multiple articles into a single Podcast!
@simon____brown @hamza_afzal_butt @pixel_arts this would be awesome. i can imagine bundling all the articles in an X or Threads list / topic into a podcast to stay up to speed on a topic area. You can set how often you want it to refresh. Almost like your personal Perplexity Discover feed.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
I would wish to turn my unread books or books from my "wish list" into audiobooks. Is it somehow possible? E.g. when they are in PDF?
MoonPay
Hi @busmark_w_nika ! Thanks for the suggestion, PDFs and other inputs is something we'd love to add. We currently support URL and email.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@simon____brown Can't wait for that option then :)
Codrops Blueprints
Cool idea! I like that it auto adds to apple podcasts, I could see myself using it as a save for later kind of thing.
MoonPay
@grsmto we think this is the best feature :)
This is great! Podcasting the articles is a nice way to tackle info overload. I'll definitely explore this. The two-host format sounds really engaging. Do you have plans to let users customize the AI hosts? Like personality, voices, way of speaking, language, etc?
MoonPay
@pranay12 great thank you! yeah we'd love to see how to develop this, I'm sure you've seen https://www.openai.fm/ where you can really be quite specific on style. We're struggling a bit on quality from OpenAI's voices, when it drops below 'studio' quality voice it makes the podcast a little bit harder to listen to. I'm sure the tech will catch up soon though!
@simon____brown yeah I've seen that!
I see where the challenge is. All the best! Excited for @Podpod 's future!
Nice idea! Can it pick up some passages on certain topics, or it is just to transfer the voice to texts?
Can't wait to play around with this. Are there any success stories you might share for this kind of AI gen product?