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 [email protected] or find us on X or Threads.
Thanks so much for checking us out!
– Max & Simon
Great idea! I've just uploaded my newsletter. It’s really good but I’d like British voices. Can you select different nationalities?
This is such a brilliant idea—huge congrats on the launch! The experience of turning articles into podcast-style discussions feels both natural and refreshing, especially for screen-weary folks. Excited to try it out and already thinking about which newsletters to forward first. Love the human touch with the AI hosts too!
Couldn't find where to use the trial discount code. Is it during Stripe payment? It seems to be invalid.
Loved the idea, by the way i want to ask a question if anyone can answer
I was building a Audio To Blog convertor tool which can be customized to newsletter, blog, etc. I try to validate market but everyone is opposing this idea.
Do you want to collab with me on this. I can code this, i have name, logo prepared.
Hey! I'm super excited about this product. Just wondering, what languages are currently supported? Is there any plan to add Chinese support soon? 😊
Nice idea! Can it pick up some passages on certain topics, or it is just to transfer the voice to texts?
Thought about building an idea like this but never imagined it this way. Love the simple execution.
Its amazing Simon! I always wanted to make a podcast but it represented a lot of work for me. It can change that game in a great way. Love to see you launching here. Really congrats
Such a smart and timely idea—turning articles and newsletters into podcasts is perfect for content-heavy weeks. The AI-hosted episodes sound promising, especially if the voices feel natural and engaging. I can see this becoming a go-to productivity hack for staying informed while on the move!
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?
Just tried it out - perfect solution! Any plans to add more settings (e.g., change voices)? Or is the goal to keep it fast and simple?
The process of turning articles into AI podcasts is surprising simple, and it's great that you can listen without needing to download anything. Congrats on the launch!
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.
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!
