Podcast Web Workbench

Long podcasts as a searchable web page with highlights and notes

Problem

People who listen at their desk are stuck juggling a phone, and on long episodes finding one sentence or the crowd-favorite moment means scrubbing blindly. There is no handy place to save a quote, and the lively parts of the comment section are invisible.

Solution

A browser podcast player: scan to log in and sync subscriptions and progress, overlay comment heat on the timeline and jump straight to those moments, highlight a synced transcript word by word with search and click-to-play, and save any sentence as a note exportable to Markdown.

Users

Heavy podcast listeners, editors, and writers or researchers who quote audio

MVP

QR login syncing subscriptions and progress; comment heatmap on the progress bar; transcript highlight and search-to-seek; clip saving with Markdown export; shortcuts and speed control

Revenue

Free basic playback; subscription for unlimited note export, cross-episode full-text search, and shared notes

Why now

Podcast audiences are growing while many shows remain mobile-only, and transcription plus web playback are cheap enough for one person to build a polished web client