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.
MoonPay
@simon____brown Love the concept! How do you handle nuance or tone in more opinionated articles?
MoonPay
@masump thank you! Great question, it’s actually one of the things we spent the most time on. It was hard to get right and quite time consuming (we even built a separate tool just to make it easier). The key was balancing the AI agents and their tasks. What worked best was first capturing the article’s summary and opinions, then turning that into an engaging script. After that, it was a lot of iteration!
@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: creating folders
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: creating folders
@simon____brown Can't wait for that option then :)
Podpod
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!