I wanted to learn & keep up with Claude Code (and AWS & psych stuff). I had CC build a tool that generates living podcasts with deep-research, remembering what it’s covered and what comes next. Tool is OCDevel Podcaster , Claude Code Podcast here , see episode 1 to hear the premium voice (that’s a clone of me) and research/prose quality. Free users use Kokoro voices (so-so); premium get Qwen3-0.6b (insanely good). I’ll add more models soon, since the price gap (AWS g(5,6).xlarge ) is huge, so it would be ideal to have a middle-ground. I don’t up-charge currently, you’re buying at-cost. I’ll likely bump to 10% compute-markup (still credits) if Podcaster becomes a “thing”. Auto vs BYO Agent A big issue currently is the AI-generation mode: Auto (Gemini) vs BYO Agent. For both, you describe a show and it researches, writes, voices, publishes on a schedule. But BYO (only tested with Claude Code Web Routines) does this way more thoroughly: better research, content, and TTS-prosidy-conversion. For that reason, I personally am not going to be using Gemini mode for my own primary listening, and so: - If you want to test Gemini (Auto mode) for me, I’ll give the first 5 takers a ton of credits to test-drive it - As long as you’re willing to comment here with your gripes, after you’ve done a few episodes - I’ll make a comment below “First-5 takers here”, comment there then DM me your sign-up email. Comment thingy so others can see 5 are already claimed. Why the two: BYO is (a) hard to set up, (b) you have to trust I’m not prompt-injecting you (because it pulls the prompt via API). You need Full mode for the CC Routine Sandbox, so - yeah, you’d be playing with fire. I promise I’m not a shit-bag, but… you just have to trust that. So 99.99% of people will use Auto Mode, so I really want to get it dialed. I’d love OCDevel to be open source (so you could suss the prompts), but it got too difficult to keep it clean of sensitive stuff. I’ll figure something out eventually. Cool stufff Not limited to AI-mode, can upload epub/pdf/markdown, point to a (non-bot-blocked) URL like blog post, etc. I copy the TL;DR newsletter email to an episode each day (though I’ll likely stop using it, since Podcaster has “News” as a category, and it works) Segments. You can do 5 minutes news, 35 minutes education Real podcast. Most of you will use this for personal education, but if you want a legit published podcast (Apple, iTunes, etc) just submit the RSS feed there, add them to the Publishing destinations. When the “listed” feature goes live (currently gating it my podcasts, until I have a review system) you’ll also get a public page, like you see in my claude-code slug. Ad-injection, intelligent placement (embed sentences, cosine-distance threshold of topic shifts). Free users get mine; paid user can add their own (Rolls) NotebookLM, Perplexity Podcasts, etc - they all generate overviews , not full-ass episodes. ElevenLabs is brutally expensive. I’d be using one, instead of DIY, if they did what I want. Obviously I’m promoting. But seriously, use this for any educational material - it’s really good! Sounds cocky… but alas, all Claude Code. I’m gonna be going hog with this on tons of topics. I’ve been a The Great Courses & iTunes-U nut over the years; then switched to Deep Research + TTS-conversion; then said “eff it, do it live”. submitted by /u/lefnire
Originally posted by u/lefnire on r/ClaudeCode