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by Solvency 1104 days ago
You've basically created a really great show notes generator. Kudos.

What I'd really value is a podcast powered GPT chatbot, or at the very least, a very good search engine.

Podcasts like Peter Attia's or Paul Saladino's contain so much good knowledge on human biology in the context of nutrition, but it's buried in longform conversations. I often wish I could find a "soundbyte", or in this case, a textbyte. Paul has had guests perfectly articulate the top 10 functions of insulin, or pose perfect explanations for the value of saturated fat and its demonization via the sugar industry. Hell, there is a plethora of knowledge around basic salt that you don't find very easily in Google.

Being able to search for or rapidly recall things like this would be so useful.

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I built a proof of concept [0] of exactly this because I listen to tons of podcasts but then fetching back that info is a pain. I left it at that because I saw there were plenty of other efforts doing something similar (e.g. [1])

[0] https://youtu.be/Q6G2m4xw3E4

[1] https://podsmart-frontend.vercel.app/

You should try https://dexa.ai/ (they're supporting a limited number of podcasts though)
Hey Solvency, Thanks for the feedback. We definitely have it on our road map to do more rigorous search along with question & answer.
That's kind of what's missing from all these summarisation services - what are the actual bits of content that are worth listening to amongst all the padding?
Can you describe in the UI if there's anything that would add?