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Ryan Hoover

Recast - Turn your read-later list into bite-size audio convos w/ AI

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Recastโ€™s AI app helps you โ€œreadโ€ without reading.
๐ŸŽง Listen to any article as a short podcast
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Co-hosts explain in real dialogue
๐Ÿ“ฒ Submit any article to convert
๐ŸŒ Or browse community recasts
๐Ÿƒ Keep learning while on the go
โšก๏ธ Save reading and screen time

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Mike Gioia
This is such a great idea. My "read this later list" is way too long.
Verena Ortlieb
Maker
@michelangelo_gioia That was our problem too. Hope you like our solution as much as we do.
William Hall
Ok I've listened to a couple of the articles available on the home screen: the first thirty seconds of each article is two or three different restatements of the title. I can read the title in .5s please don't recast _that_
Adam Altman
Maker
@wrhall the feedback is deserved and duly noted. That does happen in some cases, and often more from recasts of certain publishers. This is for sure one of the known areas for improvement and you can trust we'll be getting to it as soon as we can.
William Hall
@a18n I'm incredibly bullish on audio of all kinds!! Feel free to @ me when you launch new features! The ai interface is tricky because an AI reading titles where I click "tell me more" and then I get a full article could work! But it needs the right interface Given the current implementation I think a daily summary would be more effective (think the daily by the nyt) Fwiw I don't listen to the daily but I listen to hours of podcasts per day - I want the depth!
William Hall
@a18n I will say - it makes more sense when you're depending on auto play to pick the next article ๐Ÿค” Seems useful but work to conditionally trim it
Kakuli G roy
Great product value for money...
Matteo Tittarelli
Maker
@kakuli_g_roy you know it Kakuli! ;)
Ian Goh
Guilty of having a loooong read-later list that takes literally years before I get to it ๐Ÿ˜‚ podcast format is much easier to consume
Matteo Tittarelli
Maker
@ian_goh you know it Ian! Let's kill your read-later list ๐Ÿ™…
Giuseppe Puglie
congrats for launch! very helpful!
Frederick Li
The two-voice dialog really makes it seem like a conversation, and not just an AI voice summary - which is a key differentiator. I'm really enjoying the Pro upgrade.
Verena Ortlieb
Maker
@frederickli Thanks so much. Very glad to hear you like the format as much as we do.
Brandon Giesing
Liking the app so far but have you guys considered possibly allowing the podcast support on the free plan by dynamically inserting audio ads? $10/month is a bit out of reach for some people and I'm sure some people wouldn't mind ads instead.
Engin Kurutepe
Maker
@brandongiesing thanks for the feedback Brandon. Ads will definitely play a role in the near future. We'll have to see how that changes the pricing structure. Those GPUs for AI are not cheap.
Exo Cody
Very Nice idea! definitely going to give ir a try! congrats
Engin Kurutepe
Maker
@exo_cody please let us know what you think and how we could improve it.
Antonio Autiero
Congrats on the launch! One of those things that are so obvious you wonder why no one did it before. I'm an avid podcast and blinkist user so this looks like a very interesting wedding for me lol
Engin Kurutepe
Maker
@antonio_autiero I think it's one of those ideas which sound cool but people don't expect to be possible. It's amazing how much new ideas are enabled by new LLMs.
ravi pavan
Nice idea
Engin Kurutepe
Maker
@ravi_pavan thank you. please let us know if you have feedback on how we can keep improving it.
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