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🎙️ $2 AI podcasts, 💰 Productivity payment hack, 📧 Lemlist ($70) replacement
3 automation templates inside...
Paul @ AutoMinted
August 28, 2025
Hey AutoMinters ⚡️
Hope you’ve had a really great summer building and learning.
I have a BIG announcement next week… so stay tuned.
Here are this week’s automations:
Content Creation
Generate local news podcasts with AI narration and audio tags.
This automation from Lucas Wallter scrapes local news stories and events from Google News, processes them through Firecrawl for markdown extraction, uses GPT to write podcast scripts with ElevenLabs V3 audio tags (like [excitedly] or [warmly]), and generates final podcast audio.
Why I like it
This unlocks a new channel (podcasting) that requires a lot of production work.
I could see this working really effectively paired with local newsletter operators… not to mention Beehiiv charges you a TON more for this service on their MAX plan (still cheaper than the $40+ upgrade).
The system uses RSS.app for feed creation, Firecrawl for batch scraping, OpenAI for script generation, and ElevenLabs V3 for text-to-speech with emotional audio tags.
Cost estimate: Approximately $2-5 per podcast episode (depending on script length, news volume, and ElevenLabs usage)
