Yourcast 2.0

Yourcast is a Telegram bot that turns the messaging app into a podcast player. Rather than installing a separate podcast client, a listener opens a chat with @yourcastbot, searches for a show, taps to subscribe, and new episodes arrive as audio right in the conversation. The bot is aimed at people who already spend their day inside Telegram and want podcast discovery, subscription and listening to happen in the same place they already talk, read channels and share files. Yourcast 2.0 builds on that listen-in-chat model with AI summaries that carry timestamps you can tap to jump into the audio, the ability to ask questions about any episode, feeds that repair themselves, file support up to 2 GB, OPML import and payments in Telegram Stars. Podcast listening usually starts by leaving whatever app you are in. You open a dedicated podcast client, search for a show you just heard about, and manage a separate subscription list that lives apart from your conversations. Yourcast addresses that split. Telegram already holds chats, channels and audio files, so keeping a listener's shows in the same space removes a step between hearing about a podcast and following it. The subscribe flow is deliberately reduced to a tap: find the show, tap once, and future episodes are delivered as audio messages in the chat instead of waiting in another library. That matters most in the moment of discovery, when the intent to follow a show is strongest and any friction tends to end it. The core of the product is search and subscription inside a chat. A user searches for a podcast by name, reviews the results the bot returns, and taps to subscribe. From then on, new episodes of that show arrive as audio directly in the Telegram conversation, so playback happens where the notification already is. There is no separate library screen to open and no episode list to refresh: the chat itself becomes the feed. The bot also points to a channel, @yourcast_channel, and a chat, @yourcast_chat, alongside the bot itself, giving listeners a place to follow updates and talk with other users. Because everything happens in a Telegram chat, the same interface works across the Telegram apps a person already uses, with the bot link launching it directly. Version 2.0 adds AI summaries to the listening experience. After an episode is available, the bot can provide a summary of it, and that summary carries timestamps. The timestamps are tappable: tapping one jumps to the corresponding point in the audio. This turns a summary from a static block of text into a navigation tool. A listener can read the summary first to decide whether a long episode is worth the time, then jump straight to the segment that matters instead of scrubbing through the player looking for it. For shows where only one topic is relevant, or for episodes that run long, the combination of an AI summary and tap-to-jump timestamps compresses the decision of what to listen to and where to start into a single screen inside the chat. Beyond summaries, Yourcast lets a user ask questions about any episode. Instead of reading or listening to the whole thing to find one answer, the listener asks the bot directly about the episode in the chat. The second reliability feature is feeds that repair themselves. Podcast feeds can break, and Yourcast 2.0 handles it by repairing the feed rather than leaving the subscription dead. For a listener, that means a show they subscribed to keeps delivering new episodes without manual re-adding or troubleshooting, and the maintenance work that usually falls to the user is handled by the bot. 2.0 also lifts several practical limits. Files up to 2 GB are supported, so long episodes and larger audio files that would previously exceed a limit can be delivered into the chat. OPML import means a listener can bring an existing subscription list from another podcast app into Yourcast rather than rebuilding it show by show. Payments run through Telegram Stars, so upgrading happens inside Telegram without leaving the app or entering card details elsewhere. On the free tier, users get 10 episodes a week on demand, which sets a clear boundary between casual listening and heavier use. How the product works overall is intentionally simple: it is a bot, not a separate app. A user launches it from the bot link, lands in a chat with @yourcastbot, and interacts through messages. Searching, subscribing, requesting an episode on demand, reading a summary, tapping a timestamp and asking a question are all chat actions in the same thread. Because the bot lives inside Telegram, there is nothing to install beyond Telegram itself, and episode delivery uses the app's existing audio file handling. The website presents the product in a single line, the podcast bot that searches, subscribes and plays podcasts, with a Start Bot button as the whole onboarding path. The benefit is consolidation. Listening, subscribing and catching up happen in a place the user already opens many times a day, which makes following a new show a one-tap decision instead of a context switch. AI summaries with timestamps reduce the time spent deciding what to play and finding the relevant part of an episode, and asking questions about an episode replaces hunting through audio for a single answer. Self-repairing feeds remove a maintenance chore from the listener. OPML import protects existing subscriptions, 2 GB file support removes a size ceiling, and Telegram Stars keeps payment inside the app. The free allowance of 10 episodes a week on demand makes it possible to try the workflow before paying. Typical scenarios follow directly from those features. Someone sees a podcast mentioned in a Telegram channel or a group chat, opens @yourcastbot, searches the title, taps subscribe, and the next episode shows up in that same conversation. A commuter with a forty-minute window reads the AI summary of a long episode, taps the timestamp for the segment they care about, and listens to just that part. A listener with an established library in another podcast app imports it via OPML instead of re-adding shows one at a time. Someone curious whether an episode covers a specific topic asks the bot a question about it before committing to a full listen. And a heavy listener who runs past the free 10 episodes a week on demand upgrades through Telegram Stars without leaving the chat. Yourcast is built for Telegram users who listen to podcasts, from casual listeners who follow a handful of shows to heavier users who subscribe to many. The bot interface is available in English, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Hebrew, so the same chat workflow works for listeners across those languages. The project is open source under GPL v3, with GitHub listed among its topics, which matters to users who want to inspect or reuse the code behind a bot they rely on. Pricing follows a freemium model: a free tier with 10 episodes a week on demand, and paid upgrades handled with Telegram Stars. Yourcast 2.0's value proposition is straightforward: it moves podcast search, subscription and listening into Telegram, then adds AI summaries with tap-to-jump timestamps and episode questions so that the time spent with audio is time spent on the parts that matter. Combined with self-repairing feeds, OPML import, 2 GB files and in-app Telegram Stars payments, it turns a chat window into a complete, low-friction podcast workflow.