DEV Community: Yuval Steuer

How I grew my dev podcast with podcast clips for social media

Yuval Steuer — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:33:14 +0000

So I recently started a podcast about my journey from career path of a developer to a founder.

The biggest shift I've experienced thus far is having to focus on bringing user to my product as opposed to focusing soley on making a product better, more scalable, faster, more resiliant.

One way for acquiring more users has been (other than running ads) starting a podcast.

But while I initially thought things will be easy sailing I was proven otherwise.

Growing my podcast has been one of the hardest things Iv'e done, but one of the most rewarding at the same time.

All I can say is that posting podcast clips on social media was biggest growth factor by far!

I used this guide on growing your podcast using podcast clips on social media by Jessica Levy about growing podcasts on social I really recommend, cheert!

Yuval

Growing my podcast with AI-generated podcast clips

Yuval Steuer — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:33:03 +0000

Hi new here!

I recently increased my viewership by 840% and organic social reach by 720+% with a simple trick, I would like to share what I discovered.

I'm a host of a programming podcast, for a long time I wanted to get into the social media game to reach a broader audience.

I tried editing podcast clips manually.
Paid an indian editor on fiverr 300+$

Utimatly couldn't get to a scale of high quality clips.

Finally for I decided to give a try to AI podcast clips generation tools, I was a bit skeptical at first, I believe most of these tools are mostly hype, I myself only used ChatGPT before.

But after trying out Chopshop: AI podcast clips everything made sense, I was able to automate my entire social media flow while keeping quality and virality high.

I wrote a python script that automated the following process:

1. Listens on RSS feed for a podcast upload.
2. Uploads podcast video to api.chopshopai.com
3. Extracts 50 clips and uploads to tiktok.
4. Take 5 winners and post them on my official social media accounts.

The rest is history, # of podcast downloads went balloons, ad $ I'm getting is through the roof, this is crazy.

what year is this?

Hacking Podcasting: a Developer Hacking Content Repurposing for my Company

Yuval Steuer — Sun, 21 May 2023 08:26:48 +0000

Hi my name is Yuval, sw dev :)

I work for a corporation and am friends with people from our marketing department, I chatted with one of our social media personas and realized we were sitting on a potential gold mine - hours of podcast videos gathering dust. We were doing it wrong, I realized. We were producing great content but failing to deliver it in a form that was digestible to our busy listeners. Although we wanted to edit it down to podcast clips. But with the massive amount of content, the task was close to impossible. Until the AI hype induced dev in me whispered, "Why not build an AI to do it?"

The Dawn of the Idea: Build a Podcast Content Repurposing
tool, We were making art, but our listeners were time-starved. They needed snack-sized content, something they could consume on the go. Podcast clips were the answer - punchy, focused, and easy to digest. But carving out these clips from the monumental pile of podcast videos was another story. It was time-consuming and mind-bogglingly manual.

That's when I thought - what if we could create an AI tool to automate this?

My First Code: With my superiors' approval, I started developing an AI tool that could efficiently slice podcast videos into sharp, engaging podcast clips. a few ChatGPT API calls later I had working code pick out the meaty bits from our podcast videos, trimming the fat and serving up tasty content pieces.

The outcome? An AI tool capable of gulping down lengthy podcast videos and spitting out shareable podcast clips, with minimum human intervention.

From the Developer's Den to the Market: Software at Its Finest
After successfully implementing the tool within our podcast studio, an ambitious thought popped up. With the green light from my supervisors, I decided to pack up this AI wizard into a neat software package.

As a developer, it's a proud moment for me to have built something that solves a problem. And this is just the beginning.

Hacking together code and crafting an AI tool landscape was a journey I'll never forget. We went from an in-house tool to a successful software product that has now become the industry standard. AI-driven podcast video repurposing is here, and it's not going anywhere.

Keep an eye on this space for more exciting updates from my programming adventures. And hey, if you want to geek out about AI, podcasting, or both, hit me up!

Also, I've recently got permission from our legal department to release it as a commercial product, so here it is:
https://chopshopai.com

I'm just in love rn with:
podcast clips, podcast video repurposing, podcast repurposing