Idea: create a CLI app similar to Sovereign Feeds.

What problem does this solve?

• This allows you to maintain your own podcast feed somewhere permanent (like a domain you own) without installing a complicated podcast app on your server.
• No vendor lock-in with a podcast app or hosting company.

The app would create a RSS feed that could be submitted to…

https://podcastindex.org/add

The user interface might start out simple…

genpod -t "My Podcast Title" \\ # Name of podcast
	-e "Yay First Episode" \\ # Name of episode
	-n "Wow show notes." \\ # Description?
	-i jayspod-old.rss \\ # Input feed is the "database"
	-f <https://example.com/episode-1.mp3> \\ # audio
	> jayspod.rss # Updated feed with latest episode

The ideal RSS structure to aim for would be https://feeds.podcastindex.org/pc20.xml since Dave is the developer of Podcast Index.

Hosting the output RSS/XML feed URL would be the user’s own responsibility.

Obviously you would want more features, but it could start out very simple. I suppose this could be "backend experience" for someone junior starting out.

Interested? Reply here:

https://x.com/JayBrunet/status/1801725762464100848

I might just build this for myself and post it on Github or Codeberg. But I’m open to collaboration.