Podcart

Hey Luke, so people keep asking me what Podcart actually is. How do you usually explain it?

Honestly? I tell them it's the brain of the studio. It's the one app that runs everything we need to make a podcast — the cameras, the audio, the lights, all of it.

Right. Before we built this, you'd have like five different apps open, plus a couple of physical mixing boards, and somebody had to know how to drive each one.

And if a guest showed up early? Good luck. You're flipping between windows, hitting record on three different things, hoping you didn't miss anything.

Now it's just one screen. One web page, basically. You open it up in a browser and the whole studio is right there in front of you.

That's the part I love. It's a website. You don't install anything, you don't need a special laptop. If you can open Chrome, you can run the show.

And it's running on a Raspberry Pi in the closet, which still kind of blows my mind.

A little computer the size of a deck of cards is running an entire broadcast studio. Yeah.

So talk me through what it actually controls.

Sure. Cameras — we can pan, tilt, zoom, switch between them. Audio — every microphone in the room, every level, every mute button. The video switcher, the recorders, even the studio lights.

And the recording side. That's the part I think people underestimate.

Huge. When you hit record, it's not just capturing audio — it's saving it locally so we don't lose anything if the internet hiccups, and then it's uploading clean copies to the cloud automatically.

So the host walks out of the studio and the files are basically already where the editor needs them.

Exactly. No thumb drives, no "did you remember to copy it off the SD card." It just shows up.

What about when something new comes in? Like we just swapped out the audio mixer recently.

That's where the design really shines. We didn't have to rebuild the whole app. We just wrote a new piece for the new mixer, plugged it in, and the interface picked it up. Same screen, new gear underneath.

It's kind of like LEGO for studio equipment.

That's a good way to put it. Add a piece, take a piece away, the rest still works.

Alright, I think people get it. One screen, runs everything, makes the studio feel simple.

That's the whole goal. The tech disappears, and you just get to make the show.

Perfect. Let's go record one.