SAAS idea: Turn audio TwitterSpaces into a podcast in 1 click
I have dozens of ideas a day.
Some solve a real problem; others are more like @Badunicorn .
What do you think of this one?
The trend
Every day there are dozens of makers who make Twitterspaces.
I love listening to them.
The problem
Is that this live content is not reusable.
The solution
Create a solution that would allow to record this content in one click and broadcast it as a podcast.
What do you think?
What stops a person from just using OBS or a similar screen recorder app to get audio from his own microphone and Twitter Spaces speakers? A chrome extension or a web app could make it a bit more convenient, but not game-changing.
That's true, but an extension would make it happen quickly ;-)
I've had similar ideas about turning things to and from podcasts. Repurpose is an existing tool that exists that does some of the conversions. I have to imagine you can find niches of what they're doing. A downside to their product is that its pretty general so it doesn't automatically stand out as solving a particular need. Their advantage is it does a lot of things.
Full disclosure: I make PodQueue, which is designed to turn audio you want to listen to from around the web into a personalized podcast feed you can listen to in your favorite podcast app, so I’ll probably be looking into adding support for recorded Twitter Spaces. 😅
BUT, I think this could be pretty cool on its own, and something Twitter themselves should look into implementing. The main barrier right now is that Twitter currently isn’t very interested in making audio from Spaces available outside of their app. There’s no official API for third parties to get streaming or recorded audio, and the only officially-supported way for hosts to get audio from a Space they recorded is to download their entire Twitter data archive.
It is possible to extract its audio space but the process is quite tedious. I have not yet looked at the API. But I think it's possible.