Skip 80 minutes of show-note grunt work
on every episode.
Paste your episode URL. Get clean chapters, show notes, 30 clip-worthy timestamps, and ready-to-post Twitter + LinkedIn copy in about four minutes. No subscription, no account, no monthly fee you'll forget to cancel.
- 00:00:00 · Cold open — why we killed the CRM
- 00:03:42 · The call that changed everything
- 00:19:05 · Hiring at 40 people, the awkward part
- 00:34:10 · Ad read — skip if you're impatient
- 00:38:22 · Q&A: the thing nobody asks
This week Maya Chen (co-founder, Trellish) explains why she shut down a working $1.2M ARR product to rebuild it from scratch. We talk through the month of customer calls that led there, the three hires she regrets making during growth, and the one she regrets not making sooner…
That's the line that stopped me in this week's episode with Maya Chen. She walked us through a month of customer calls — the ones where everyone said they loved the product — and explained why that feedback is often the most dangerous kind.
The hour you get back.
per episodeHere's what you're actually spending post-production time on. The numbers come from our own shows and five we audited.
- Listening back for chapters~20 min
- Writing show notes~15 min
- Finding clip-worthy moments~25 min
- Drafting social posts~20 min
- Total80 min
- Paste audio URL30 sec
- Wait for the output~4 min
- Skim & tweak~5 min
- (Optional) cut clips in Descriptas needed
- Total~10 min
Over a year of weekly episodes, that's about 60 hours back — roughly one-and-a-half working weeks reclaimed for the work listeners actually pay attention to.
Where the output lives.
copy · paste · doneShowkit produces text. You paste it where your audience already is. No integrations to maintain, no OAuth to grant, nothing to break.
- Spotify · Apple Podcasts · Overcast — chapters and show notes drop straight into the episode description. Spotify reads the timestamps as clickable chapters.
- YouTube — paste the chapters block into the video description; YouTube auto-enables its chapter UI as soon as it detects the format.
- Substack · Beehiiv · Ghost — show notes become the email body. The social pull-quote becomes the subject line.
- X · LinkedIn · Threads — social copy is already sized and toneset for each. Post as-is or tweak one word.
- Descript · CapCut · Premiere — open the clip timestamps and jump straight to the moment. You're cutting clips, not hunting for them.
Why Showkit vs. the monthly subscriptions.
the mathPodsqueeze and Swell AI charge $20–30/month whether you post three episodes or zero. Showkit is a one-time purchase that never expires. If you publish weekly, a pack pays for itself in one month. If you publish sporadically, you never pay for a month you didn't use.
| Showkit | Podsqueeze | Swell AI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $5 trial / $99 pack | $20/mo · ongoing | $30/mo · ongoing |
| 10 episodes cost | $99 (one-time) | $240/yr | $360/yr |
| Credits expire? | Never | End of month | End of month |
| Account required | No · license key only | Yes | Yes |
| Clip timestamps | 30 per episode | ~10 per episode | Varies |
| Disfluency cleanup | Tuned prompt, 3 months | Basic | Basic |
| Cancel to stop paying | Nothing to cancel | Required | Required |
Pricing as of 2026. We check competitor pricing monthly — if it's stale, email us and we'll update it.
Two things this is. Three it isn't.
Showkit outputs text you paste into the tools you already use. CapCut, Descript, Riverside, Buzzsprout, Spotify — whatever. We produce words; you move the sliders.
Pricing, briefly.
pay as you goOne run. One license key in your inbox five seconds later. If the output isn't what you hoped for, you're out the price of a coffee. If it is, upgrade to the pack.
Try one episode →About $10 per typical episode. Buy once; works for one episode, ten episodes, or the forty-seven you've been procrastinating on. Credits never expire. No subscription, no cancellation to remember.
Buy the pack →If Showkit's output isn't useful on your first episode — clips feel off, show notes miss the point, whatever — email us within 7 days and we refund. No form, no "let us win you back" loop. One sentence is enough.
Payments handled by Lemon Squeezy. They're the merchant of record, which means they deal with VAT, sales tax, chargebacks and whatever else you don't want to think about. Receipts arrive by email.
Questions we actually get.
Technically yes. In practice you'd be doing five things ChatGPT won't do on its own: get a timestamped transcript, clean the disfluencies, enforce a clip-selection rubric, stay inside 280 characters for Twitter, and refuse to write "journey / game-changer / must-listen." Here's what the two outputs usually look like from the same 52-minute episode:
- ❌ No timestamps (it doesn't hear audio)
- ❌ Clips include "um" and "I-I-I think"
- ❌ Twitter post is 340 chars, 2 emojis
- ❌ Uses "journey", "unlock", "game-changer"
- ❌ Different format every time you ask
- ❌ 20 min of prompt wrestling per episode
- ✓ Deepgram timestamps per sentence
- ✓ Disfluencies stripped from every clip
- ✓ Twitter ≤ 280, LinkedIn tone-set
- ✓ Banned-word list (tuned 3 months)
- ✓ Same JSON schema every run
- ✓ 4 minutes · no prompt work
No. We fetch the URL you give us, stream it to the transcription service, and keep only the text output for your result page. The audio URL and transcript are discarded when the job ends. There is no user database.
Honest answer: they're opinionated. We look for sentences that stand alone without setup — hooks, reversals, one-liners, stats. You'll throw out maybe a third. The remaining twenty are a month of social content.
The transcription handles speaker diarization (labels who said what). The clip picker prefers clean single-speaker moments, which means it'll skip your crosstalk on purpose. Your listeners will thank you.
That's the whole thing. If you make a podcast more than twice a month, five bucks tells you whether Showkit saves you the hour it's supposed to.
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