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Show HN: Curated Podcast Snippets

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I curate ~10 minute snippets from the best tech podcasts of the week into a single episode for my friends to listen to.

Here's an example - https://soundcloud.com/user-857781619/podcastcurated-scarcity-consumer-social-investment-thesis-39/s-ep1sI

I love podcasts and take a lot of notes on them, but my friends/family just want the most interesting snippets of them because (1) they don't have the time to listen to all and (2) there are TOO many podcast episodes. It's fun for me to pick interesting sections and create a "compiled" episode, and so wanted to share with HN too. In the example above, it's my favorite snippets from recent episodes of three podcasts (Starting Greatness, Invest like the Best, and Venture Stories). Now you can sample these three episodes, learn something new, and if you like a specific one, go and listen to the whole episode!

Would love to share with y’all too! Feel free to fill this Google Form with topics you're interested in and I’ll do my best!

https://forms.gle/8gUEgTugUt4Gfw6L9

I like this a lot. I often find myself too "behind" on the podcasts that I like to listen to and often don't have the time to sit through and listen to all of them.

I'm down to try it out. Maybe you and I like similar things

I love the idea but how do you navigate copyrights on these podcasts? Do you get permission to use their clips?

Right now no, it's just a small group of friends (and hopefully future HN users like you :)).

I'm assuming since all podcasts are public and free it would be okay (i.e. I'm getting it from ListenNotes). It's a good point that I should include links to the podcasts in the description so people can go directly.

What do you think I could include in the audio to help with giving credits to the podcast authors?

Links in the description might be sufficient. If you want to put it in audio, I'd recommend something at the begging like "Todays snippets are courtesy of podcast X, Y and Z."

Great idea! Could you add timestamps in your show notes for folks who want to skip to a specific section?

Yes will do!

This is pretty cool, just signed up.

Does this take a lot of time? Or do you have a specific note taking process for podcasts?

The end goal is to automate it, but right now doing a hand curation process. Doesn't take too much time and my friends get value out of it anyways. We also then discuss it among ourselves and I like the seeding of discussion.

I take a LOT of podcast notes, it's just how I go about learning things. Just on apple notes I jot down what is interesting during a podcast. It's helpful to sometimes to go back and review / remember the podcasts that are good enough to re-listen too.

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