Thisten

So far, so good. I looked up my favorite podcast these days, Pivot with @karaswisher & @profgalloway. It would be even better if you would post the date the podcast aired with each of the transcriptions.

Hey PH Community! Ben Grynol here – I’m one of the co-founders of Thisten. When we first started building Thisten, our product was much different – it was a platform where we transcribed speaker sessions at conferences to make them more accessible.  We joined YC’s Startup School this past winter, and were getting relatively good growth with the product that we had built. Over the course of 2 months, we went from $0 to $10,125 in revenue, and gained ~4,000 users, with ~1,000 of them being MAUs. After conferences started getting cancelled recently, the writing was on the wall – our revenue stream was no longer viable. We did a micro-pivot last week, and rebuilt our product to become better for searching and consuming podcast transcripts. As well, we wanted to make podcasts more accessible (through text) for the community of 466M+ Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in the world. For our launch, we’ve transcribed more than 2,000 episodes of 160 podcasts, and added them to the network. The transcripts aren’t perfect and are ~95% accurate, since our tech is built using AI and ML models for Speech to Text. Our team learned the ropes of developing tech by helping to build one of the most impactful on-demand food delivery companies in the world – SkipTheDishes – into a multi-billion dollar company from its early days. Now we're taking everything we learned about scaling startups, and are building the world's largest database of transcripts. Thisten will be updated daily with new transcripts, as podcast episodes are released. You might not find what you’re looking for, but you’ll be sure to find something. We’d love your feedback <3  Ben / Rui / Sudeep

As an avid consumer of podcasts I often find myself trying to remember which podcast and which episode a particular nugget of wisdom came from. I haven't had a chance to play around with the product yet, but excited for a potential solution to this all too common (at least in my case) issue.

The Thisten team has deep experience on the tech stack side. Will be interesting to see where they can go with this as they pivot to the Virtual and podcast space! Wish them luck. Signing up my podcast to see how it works! thanks @bgrynol and team.