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Show HN: Podely – Convert your YouTube channel into a podcast

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Flagged because this is a sales page, not a Show HN. Please read the rules:

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Regarding the sales page itself: If you had a list of podcasts created this way, I would definitely look at it. Because I am a big podcast fan.

If your product has not been used yet, I would start by contacting youtubers directly and work with them to build an initial portfolio of podcasts created with Podely.

What's wrong with it?

"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."

Looks like you can try it out so not sure why do you think it's not good for ShowHN?

All you can do on that page is sign up. Sign-up pages are explicitely listed as a type of page that can't be a Show HN.

This sign-up page especially rubs me the wrong way as it uses a dark pattern: It grabs your email address first and then tells you that you cannot proceed without entering your credit card details.

I'll say that's more incompetence on my part than a "dark pattern". At this time you can only have 1 channel per account, and I need to check the email is unique before sending the info to Stripe, that's the way I came up to solve that, presenting that form before payment.

My product has not been used yet, just put it live yesterday. My idea here was just to get general feedback, like yours.

Seems like a cool idea but I don’t know about that pricing. Many podcasts I listen/watch to are just over the hour mark per episode. Since this is geared towards people getting started, I doubt many are even making enough to cover the subscription cost alone.

I think charging by the hour is a bit weird in general since I would assume you’re just grabbing the audio track with youtube-dl and not actually processing anything.

Thanks for the feedback. I calculated the price based on how much people upload on youtube on average, I've seen most type of "vlogs" are about 10 min, and the average upload is once per week, so that's 40 minutes per month.

I agree about the price, by my calculations the biggest cost will be bandwidth, my rationale was that charging by bandwidth is less "user friendly" than charging by time. And I've seen other major podcast hosters charging by time also, like Buzzsprout. Hope that makes sense.

I made this web app to convert Youtube channels into podcasts.

The app will try to search and replace the Youtube metadata to make it "fit" more as a podcast. For example, by default it will replace "video" to "episode" in the description, among other things. This works automatically, so when there is a new video, within minutes a new episode will appear on the podcast feed.

Any feedback is more than welcome.

Could you include the github repo? I'm curious how it works and if it's customizable.

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