Introducing an AI-driven guest research assistant for podcast hosts 🎙️
Hey Indie Hacker fam ❤️
3 years ago, I launched my first SaaS product, Shoutout, and I am forever grateful to y'all for supporting me massively. Fast forward to today, I won awards, grew it to $30k ARR, sold it, and am now launching another one. Not sure why, but I'm incredibly nervous and excited, so let's get into it 👇🏼
Introducing GuestLab 🔎
As a podcaster who shipped more than 100+ episodes, I spend hours and hours doing guest research(it's exhausting sometimes 😓). After going through this every week, I thought about building a simple AI-powered solution that could save a lot of time. That's how GuestLab is born 💡
6 months ago, I simply launched a landing page, got 300+ ppl on the waitlist, and started collaborating with my awesome co-founder @mubashariqbal to build the MVP. Since then, many podcasters like Lenny Rachitsky, Arvid Kahl, and Justin Jackson have used it, given feedback, and shaped the current product 🙏🏼
Today, @mubashariqbal and I are pumped to bring GuestLab to the Indie Hackers community!
GuestLab is an AI-driven guest research assistant built and designed exclusively for podcasters.
How does it work?
🔗 Simply drop your guest's LinkedIn profile
⚙️ Add custom inputs like episode theme, guest persona, and target audience
🤙🏼 Hit generate and sit back
Based on the guest's LinkedIn activity and your custom inputs, GuestLab AI will instantly generate a well-crafted intro, insights about the guest, 10 interesting topics, and 20 insightful questions 🎙️
Bonus feature: Once the research is generated, you can export it to PDF - this is my favorite feature as I can send it to the guest for review or directly print it out for the interview 😎
➡️ What's next: We are grateful to have paying customers($94MRR) and have launched on Product Hunt last week ❤️ Based on the feedback we are getting, we are working on adding YouTube as a source and cooking many more features!
Lastly, we're offering a 20% discount on all plans to show our gratitude to the IH community. Use GL20OFF at checkout 🧾
@mubashariqbal and I are here to answer any questions; we are pumped to hear what you think about GuestLab - Hit us with your feedback in the comments 🙏🏼
Hi there
Congrats on the launch and all the positive feedback you’re getting.
Here are a few pointers from a PM’s perspective:
Your target audience:
Congrats on being featured on Ben’s Bites (covers curated AI product launches).
Have you looked into being featured by podcasters' podcasters? Ie ppl who are respected by other podcasters when it comes to the business side of podcasting?
Any positive reviews by these ppl will be more valuable than a review by an AI product reviewer. I’m thinking ppl like Eric Silver - check out his take on How Spotify tried to Take Over Podcasting on Tech Won’t Save Us.
The site
Testimonials
Do you really want to keep those that reference a waitlist? Wouldn’t the outcome ones be a stronger validation for your product?
The copy
Suggest you tighten up the copy. Here are a few examples:
The subtitle alternatives
The hook
It can be made stronger. Here's how:
Example Combinations
Additional Considerations
If you need help with any of this - lmk. see contact details in my profile.