voilib is now open source
Today, I decided to open-source Voilib 🎉, the podcast search engine I launched in December 2022. You can now run your own instance of it and transcribe and index your favorite podcasts (or even your own content!).You can find it on Github or Gitlab.
Appearing in Show HN was a big boost for the project. That post was the main source of traffic during the first days of life of Voilib. I am thrilled to see that many of those initial users still use it today to discover relevant podcast episodes on topics they are interested in. Throughout these months, I have received valuable feedback and kind words from some of them.
Since I am not offering Voilib PRO any more (I may talk about this in
the future) the only funding for this project, to at least cover
server expenses, will come from donations and customized assistance to
people maintaining their own instances.
In the following weeks (well… maybe months), I will publish some
blog posts explaining how the system works. I consider this is the
kind of content I would have loved to find some months ago when many
people suddenly became prompt engineers, but not so many people really
understood how to build actual LLM-based products beyond the chat
interface.
UPDATE Read here about the technology behind Voilib.