Feedcast
Cut sponsor reads out of podcasts, keep your player
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Details
- External ID
- 1268738
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Feedcast
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3309652131308182
- Tags
- Mac, Menu Bar Apps, Audio
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5 p.m.
Description
Feedcast is a native Mac app that downloads your podcasts, transcribes them on-device, cuts out the sponsor reads and delivers clean episodes to Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts or any player through a private feed. Every cut can be reviewed or undone and the original stays on your Mac. On the Mac App Store your first five episodes are cleaned for free, no trial or account needed.
Enrichment
- Theme
- reading tools and feed aggregators
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- sponsor-removal feed proxy for podcast listeners
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While local Whisper transcription and RSS feed generation are straightforward, reliably identifying dynamic sponsor boundaries within audio transcripts without false positives requires careful algorithmic fine-tuning or specialized classifier models.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift/SwiftUI running local Whisper.cpp or CoreML models for transcription, coupled with an FFmpeg pipeline for lossless AAC/MP3 stream slicing and a local web server to host private RSS feeds. The hard component is the sponsor-segment classification engine, requiring fine-tuned sequence labeling or multi-shot LLM inference combined with acoustic boundary detection to avoid jarring speech cuts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.
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- (Cast) · ph · 2026-09-10 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- CastLoom Pro · hn · 2026-03-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Scroll 4.0 · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I built RSS feeds for podcast guests, not podcasts · hn · 2026-02-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- drea · hn · 2026-05-18 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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