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There’s a weird moment that happens once you’ve been hunting startup ideas long enough:

You stop looking around you…
and you start looking under you.

Under the noise.
Under the trends.
Under the chaos.

Because buried under all of it, whispered, ranted, casually dropped mid-sentence are the raw ingredients of billion-dollar companies:

Problems.
Frustrations.
Obsession loops.
Unmet needs.
Half-solutions begging to be finished.

And where do thousands of these get spoken out loud every single day?

👉 Podcasts.

Every day on podcasts:

• A founder reveals the bottleneck they wish someone would solve

• A scientist describes a breakthrough that will be obvious in 5 years

• A creator vents about a workflow that steals 10 hours a week

• A VC accidentally leaks a pattern across 30 startups

And 99.9% of this disappears instantly.

Not because it’s useless…
but because no human alive can listen to all of it.

If you tried, you’d need 500 interns named Chad working in rotating shifts powered exclusively by Celsius, ADHD, and Fear of Missing Out.

For years, I did what every idea-degenerate does:

Subscribed to too many shows.
Took too many notes.
Opened 9,000 tabs.
Still missed everything that mattered.

It felt impossible.

Until it wasn’t.

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The “Wait… What If We Just Built This?” Moment

A few months ago, a thought lodged itself inside my brain and refused to leave:

“If all the startup ideas are inside podcasts…
why don’t we just build a machine that eats podcasts for breakfast?”

So in classic NTE style, fast, messy, in public…
we built it.

EpisodeRecap.com — The Podcast Miner for Startup Ideas

This is not overpolished.
This is not VC-fluffed.
This is a founder’s tool built the way founders actually build:

Scrappy.
Useful.
Immediately impactful.

Right now, EpisodeRecap:

• tracks 100+ podcasts (and growing)

• grabs transcripts when available

• reads every new episode

• summarizes it into a clean recap

• and the magic turns that recap into startup ideas

Yes, there is literally a button that says:

👉 “Generate Startup Ideas”

You click it.
The machine digests the episode.
And it spits out the opportunities hiding inside.

Are all the recaps perfect?
No. Some have that charming AI slop smell.

But is the signal incredible?
Shockingly yes.

I’ve pulled multiple legit ideas out of this thing, stuff I never would’ve found manually.

And honestly, the recaps alone are useful.
It feels like scrolling an old-school TV Guide… if the TV Guide was made for Podcasts.

Quick Reality Check: Some Podcasts Hit Harder Than Others

Will every podcast be a gold mine?
No.

Business, entrepreneurship, tech, marketing, creator-economy shows = high-density idea fields.
Sports talk, political rants, comedy pods = usually lower density.

BUT…

Sometimes the unexpected podcasts slap the hardest.

Why?

Because nobody else is mining them.
They’re raw. Unfiltered. Human.
Problems fall out casually between jokes, arguments, and random stories.

So yes, idea density varies.
But the long-tail weird ones often produce the great insights too.

Bonus: If you want to go deeper on all episodes, there’s an AI Chat up top.
Ask it anything.
Interrogate the chat.
Brainstorm.
Extract patterns.
All powered by your credits.

Credits: The System That Keeps This Thing Alive

Here’s how credits work:

• You get 3 free credits each month

• Each “Generate Ideas” click = 1 credit

• Full transcript episodes = 3 credits (you get deeper ideas)

• If you want more credits, you can:

  • Pay

  • OR help the community (submit transcripts, add guest info, share notes, etc.)

See all the details here

Why charge at all?

Because every AI call costs real money.
Credits keep this sustainable without throwing a giant paywall in your face.

Add value → earn credits → mine ideas.

Simple.

Bonus: Your Personalized Podcast Feed

Sign up and you can:

• follow specific podcasts

• follow topics (business, marketing, sports, etc.)

• build and share your Top 5 Podcast

• get a fully personalized feed of recaps and episodes

Basically:
Spotify Discover Weekly for Podcasts.

What This Really Is: A Tool We’re Building Together

This is not a finished product.

This is a workbench.

A half-finished garage invention that if we keep pulling on it could become the best idea-generation engine on the internet.

We built EpisodeRecap because we needed it.
Now you get to use it too.

Try it. Break it.
Tell me what sucks.
Tell me what’s missing.
Tell me what made you go “holy sh*t, yes.”

If enough of us contribute, we will uncover more opportunities than any one founder could find in a lifetime.

Try It Now

Your Workflow:

1. Go to EpisodeRecap.com

2. Scroll the recaps 

3. When something catches your eye, sign up.

4. Hit Generate Startup Ideas and watch the machine go to work.

5. Want more credits? Help the community - add transcripts, guest info, missing details.

6. Screenshot the best idea and reply to this email - I want to see what you uncover.

This could become the most powerful idea-generation engine on the internet…
but only if we build it together.

Let’s go mining.