Podpod

Podpod

Turn anything into a podcast

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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.
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Newsletters•Notes•Artificial Intelligence
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Simon
Maker
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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

@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?

Simon
Maker

@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 🙌🏽

Max Bonhomme
Maker

@simon____brown  @hamza_afzal_butt We're currently working on the ability to bundle multiple articles into a single Podcast!

Mark Heynen

@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.

Nika

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?

Simon
Maker

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.

Nika

@simon____brown Can't wait for that option then :)

Max Bonhomme
Maker

Hey Product Hunt,


I'm Max the engineer behind Podpod, I've had so much fun building this with Simon.
Figuring out how to go from a piece of text to a dialog between two AI voices was the most fun. I ended up using a queue system (using BullMQ) with a few different steps:

  • Scrape and validate url content

  • Run through Mistral AI agents:

    • Read content and extract key information

    • Convert text into a Podcast script

    • Transform script into SSML and fine tune punctuation, intonation, speed, etc

  • Feed the SSML to our AI Speech service

With this setup we can transform pretty much any type of content into a podcast, we started with Websites, we now support Emails and we're adding more and more.


I'm really excited to see how people will use this, and I can't wait to implement features that people want!