PodStep: AI-Driven Action Item Extractor for Business Podcasts

Looking for my first 10 users for a side project I built around business podcasts

This is a good first-10-users problem because the pain is specific: people consume business podcasts for work, then nothing changes. I would narrow the first user profile harder than "people who like business podcasts." Pick one wedge for the next 10 users, for example: - solo founders who listen to My First Million / Acquired for growth ideas - operators who listen during commutes and need one weekly process improvement - creators/consultants who want reusable notes for content or client work Then make the ask very concrete: "Send me one episode you already listened to and I will turn it into a one-page action plan you can use this week." That is easier to say yes to than "try my free plan." For the product itself, I would make every playbook end with the same structure: 1. The idea in one sentence. 2. Why it matters for a small business/founder. 3. A 15-minute action. 4. A template/checklist/script. 5. A "done if" test so the user knows whether they actually applied it. The key metric is probably not signups yet. It is "did someone complete one action from one episode?" If 5 of the first 10 do that, you have a much stronger signal than 50 people saving interesting notes. Landing-page-wise, I would show one before/after example above the fold: podcast episode -> messy takeaway -> concrete weekly action. That will explain the value faster than describing the category.

i tried doing this with a few episodes just by taking notes, and it kinda turned into more work than the podcast itself. most of what i wrote down was too broad to use later, so i stopped keeping up with it. the only thing that actually stuck was forcing myself to end with one tiny action for the week, otherwise i'd just collect opinions like a hoarder. that's basically why something like podex makes sense to me, i was bad at turning a good episode into anything useful.