🍪 Podcast Crew
"Your AI podcast production crew — fact-checks, context, jokes, and breaking news, live in your ear while you record."
The Idea
**Podcast Crew** is a real-time AI production assistant for podcasters. It listens to a live recording session via the browser microphone, transcribes speech on the fly, and routes the transcript to four specialized AI personas — Fact-Checker, Context Provider, Comedy Writer, and News Anchor — that surface relevant cards in a visual sidebar. Think of it as Howard Stern's crew, but AI-powered and available to any solo creator for $49/month.
The product turns a one-person podcast into a staffed show by providing live, contextual intelligence during recording — eliminating the need to pause, Google things, or hire researchers.
Who It's For
Solo podcasters and small podcast teams (2-3 people) who publish weekly, can't afford a production team, and want to increase the depth and entertainment value of their shows. Secondary: podcast networks looking to scale production quality across shows.
What's Built
Build a browser-based web app (no desktop app, no mobile) that:
- Captures microphone audio in the browser and streams it to a real-time transcription service
- Displays a rolling transcript alongside four AI persona "crew member" cards
- Each persona processes transcript chunks and surfaces relevant insights as cards (fact-checks, context, jokes, news) with a 3–8 second latency target
- Users can create an account, start a recording session, view the AI crew's live output, and review past sessions
- Sessions are persisted with transcript + all AI crew outputs for post-production review
Explicitly out of scope for MVP:
- Desktop app / Electron wrapper
- "Enhanced" listener second-screen experience
- Multi-guest / multi-mic support
- Dual audio stream output (clean vs. enhanced)
- Stripe billing (use free tier + feature gate; add payments in v2)
- Mobile-responsive recording (desktop-only for recording, mobile-ok for session review)