thanks and agreed! we see a massive distrust in traditional legacy media, and hopefully PodSnacks can give readers more control about how they access those voices.
PodSnacks (https://podsnacks.org) — Personalized AI summaries of top podcasts, delivered to your inbox.
I've been building PodSnacks because I found it overwhelming to keep up with podcasts across tech, business, and science. PodSnacks uses LLMs to summarize the most popular episodes from shows like Lex Fridman, Acquired, All-In, Invest Like the Best, and more.
You choose your favorite shows, and we email you short, high-signal summaries — no audio to skim through, no endless backlog guilt.
So far:
126K+ episode summaries generated
92K+ hours of podcasts processed
48–50% open rates
2,900+ early users
Still iterating and adding features like bundling by theme, language translations, and audio feeds.
If you're the kind of person who wants more inputs without more noise — would love for you to check it out.
have been a long Time reader of HN and product developer. replit is amazing and finally the AI allowed me to build products that I could only sketch. Just wanted to share!
Trust in news orgs is at an all time low. And news orgs (Wapo, Buzzfeed, CNN) will need to figure out their strategy in AI. Snacks Media (Podcasts, News, Events, etc) will leverage tech to build an AI News Company. The plan will be to allow anyone to even bring their own LLM—right now it’s Claude because that’s where we first got developer access.
Monetization is $1/hr for summaries. And we’ll include ads at scale.