Show HN: Promptcast – Podcast Summaries with ChatGPT

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Hello HN! I built an app that can transcribe & summarize podcasts. I'm a huge fan of podcasts & this was something I thought could be really useful. It's sometimes a little hard to figure out if something I am planning on listening to is just rehashing stuff I already know, which often happens in history / educational podcasts.

The stack is built on Rails / Stimulus. The actual podcast transcription is actually done from a home computer with an RTX 3070 running 24/7 downloading & transcribing. It can typically churn through about 500 / day so I'm hoping to just slowly add podcasts I like to listen to on here over time.

Nice, this is helpful when I try to remember what some hosts said. Could you submit your own podcasts?

I'm planning to add something like that if people actually find this useful! The nice thing with podcasts is that they are typically powered by RSS feeds, which let me download basically anything out there that isn't an exclusive. The next time I'm working on is making it so readers can submit their own podcasts for transcription!

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