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The show that
answers what your
audience asked.

The AI audience engagement lead for podcasters.

A persistent AMA hub between your episodes. Subscribers ask, vote, comment, and share ideas. ReactLive curates the queue, matches answers as you record, and ships shareable clips back to whoever asked.

Persistent AMA hub · Smart submissions · Auto-Answer Loop · Shareable answer clips · Asker notifications
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The audience-feedback problem

You have an audience. You don't have a way to hear them.

Reddit threads. Twitter DMs. Discord pings. Apple Podcasts reviews. YouTube comments. Email. The questions your audience actually wants you to answer are scattered across seven surfaces, half of which you'll miss. You record the show flying blind on what they came for — and reply to whoever happened to be loudest that week.

01 Scatter

Seven inboxes, one host.

Reddit, Twitter, Discord, email, Patreon, Apple reviews, YouTube. The good questions are out there. They're just nowhere you can find them on a Wednesday afternoon when you sit down to plan the show.

02 Repeat

Same question, fortieth time.

You answered it on episode 14. And 22. And 31. New listeners keep arriving and asking. You either re-answer or you ignore — both feel bad. The back catalogue is rich, but it's not findable.

03 Loud-bias

The loudest, not the realest.

A regular DMs you weekly. The hundred lurkers who wanted the same answer never speak up. You end up making episodes for a vocal minority and missing what the rest of the room actually came for.

04 Silence

The asker never knows.

You finally answer Maria's question on minute 34 of episode 67. Maria, who asked a month ago, has no idea — unless she happens to listen to the whole thing. The answer existed; the loop never closed.

One inbox, one URL

A persistent home for your audience between episodes.

ReactLive gives your show its own URL. Subscribers go there to ask questions, post comments, share ideas, and see what's already been answered. Open the week before each episode, closed for recording, open again after — a rhythm your audience learns and shows up for.

9:41 LIVE

Founder's Curve

Ep. 68 · Thu 3pm

Ask the host…

How do you decide when to fundraise vs bootstrap?

Closes Wed 6pm

When do you say no to a customer?

▲ 47 @maria

First 10 hires — who comes first?

▲ 31 @jules
ANSWERED · EP 67

How did you hire your first PM?

Three things in one chat

Questions

Asked, upvoted, surfaced for the next show.

Comments

Reactions and threads on each episode.

Ideas

Topic and guest suggestions, voted by the room.

The schedule your audience learns

Episode 68 · The fundraising decision In submission
Mon 9am
Today
Wed 6pm
Thu 3pm
Open
Close
Record

Submission window opens automatically based on your show schedule. Subscribers learn the rhythm and show up. Closes for recording. Reopens with the answer clips after.

The week of submissions

Two hundred submissions become twelve things to talk about.

Between episodes, ReactLive does the hard part. Similar questions cluster. Trending topics surface. Repeats from the back catalogue get flagged. By the morning of recording, you don't open an inbox — you open a ranked list of what your audience actually wants you to address this week.

01 Cluster

Group what's the same.

"When do you fundraise?" "How did you decide on Series A?" "VC vs bootstrap?" Three sentences, one underlying question. ReactLive groups them on the way in. You answer the cluster, not each variant.

FUNDRAISING DECISION 14 questions
· When do you fundraise?
· VC or bootstrap, what's right for me?
· How did you decide on your Series A?
+ 11 more
02 Rank

Surface what most want.

Subscribers upvote what they want answered. Sentiment, topic, recency all factor in. The hundred lurkers vote silently; the loud regulars get one voice each. The list reflects the room, not the inbox.

Fundraising decision 218
First 10 hires 132
Saying no to customers 81
AI
03 Recommend

A shortlist for this show.

ReactLive recommends the questions worth answering this week. Combines upvotes, trending topics, recency, and what you've already covered — so you don't repeat episode 14 unless you want to. The morning of recording, you have your list.

RECOMMENDED · Ep 68

  1. 1.Fundraising decision — trending
  2. 2.First 10 hires — top voted
  3. 3.Saying no to customers — never covered

And what you've already answered

The back catalogue, finally findable.

ReactLive ingests every past episode. When a new question matches one you've already answered, the asker gets a clip from the relevant episode — instantly. You stop re-answering. New listeners stop missing.

"How did you hire your first PM?" 94%

Ep. 24 · The first PM hire

14:08 — 18:42 · clip ready

See it live

The Founder's Curve AMA. Try it.

A real, working podcaster AMA — Founder's Curve, a fictional show about early-stage company-building. Submit a question, browse the answered ones, see how the auto-matched clips work. Click anywhere.

reactlive.com / founders-curve
Submit a question

Try the question form. Watch how it clusters with similar ones already in the queue.

Browse the answered

See how past questions link to specific moments in the back catalogue with shareable clips.

Watch the recommendations

The host's view shows what's trending, what's repeated, what to talk about next.

The Auto-Answer Loop

You answer once. Everyone who asked finds out.

While you record, ReactLive listens. When you answer a clustered question — whether you knew it was in the queue or not — the AI matches your answer to the askers, packages a shareable clip, and ships it to their inbox. The loop closes itself.

01 Listen

Match as you record.

Whisper-grade live transcription. As you talk, ReactLive checks each answered point against the queue. When a question matches, it's flagged in real time — speaker turn, timestamp, exact phrase.

MATCHED · 14:08:22
So when we hit Series A, the call was we'd rather take dilution than slow the team down...
02 Catalogue

Search the back episodes.

New question matches something you covered in episode 14? It's auto-answered with a clip from there. New listeners get the answer; you don't have to repeat yourself unless you want to.

CITED · Ep 14 · 18:42

First PM hire — the framework

3:42 clip · ready to share

Loop closes
03 Notify

Tell whoever asked.

Maria asked a month ago. Ten others asked variants. All ten get a notification, with the answer clip embedded. Email, push, in the AMA. The loop you'd never close by hand, closed automatically.

Hey @maria — your question got answered.

"How do you decide between fundraise and bootstrap?" — answered in episode 68 at 14:08.

Listen · 4:18

The clip economy

Clips aren't promotion. Clips are the show.

The shows winning right now aren't winning because their listenership is bigger. They're winning because their clips are. TBPN gets 7,000 listeners per episode and 257,000 views per clip. Nick Fuentes streams to under 20,000 and reaches 500,000 with each clip. The asymmetry is the new media economy.

Source: Ed Elson, "The Clip Economy" (Prof G Media, Apr 2026)

The asymmetry

37×

TBPN's clip audience vs its show audience.

And the official clip numbers underestimate true reach — they don't count fan-account re-clips, which often draw larger audiences than the originals.

Other shows ship clips like this

Random snippet, anonymous distribution.

A 60-second moment, picked by an editor or a clipping agency, posted to TikTok with a hopeful caption. Competes against ten million other clips for algorithmic attention. Wins or dies by hook quality alone.

??

"Mind-blowing take on fundraising"

Posted by an editor · zero context

Distribution: algorithmic.
Champion: nobody specific.
Why it might spread: hook quality.
Different

ReactLive ships clips like this

Named answer, named distributor.

A clip that answers a specific person's specific question. They asked. You answered. They get the clip first — with their question as the title. They have skin in the game on whether it spreads, because it's their moment of recognition.

M

"Maria asked: when do you fundraise?"

Sent to Maria · she shares to her network

Distribution: trust networks.
Champion: the asker, by default.
Why it spreads: she got an answer.

Maria's clip · the loop

Question in. Clip out. Audience grows.

One specific subscriber's question, traced through ReactLive end-to-end. The mechanic that turns every answered question into a distribution event.

01 Asks

Maria submits.

"How do you decide between fundraising and bootstrapping?"

@maria · ep 68 ▲ 218
02 Detected

AI matches the answer.

MATCHED · 14:08

"...we'd rather take dilution than slow the team down..."
03 Cut

Clip auto-generated.

Founder's Curve EP 68

"When do you fundraise vs bootstrap?"

14:08 — 18:26 · 4:18

04 Notified

Maria gets the clip.

Hey Maria — your question got answered.

Listen · share
05 Shares

Her network sees it.

+12
new subscribers
+4
new questions submitted
loop restarts

Every answered question is a clip. Every clip has a champion. Every champion brings a network.

Ask — Detect — Cut — Notify — Share

The clip economy rewards shows that produce clips at volume with built-in distribution. Most podcasts solve the volume problem with editors and clipping agencies. ReactLive solves it with the audience itself — every answered question is a clip, every clip has a person who asked for it, every person who asked has a network. You stop renting distribution from algorithms. You build it from the relationship you already have.

The operational bits

The plumbing your show needs. All in one place.

Multi-show support, member-only modes, RSS feed integration, Patreon & Substack, sponsor-friendly branding, multilingual transcription, exports for the post-episode review. The unsexy infrastructure your audience never sees.

01

Multi-show.

Run one show or twenty under a single account. Each gets its own URL, schedule, voice, and analytics.

02

Member-only mode.

Lock the AMA to paying subscribers via Patreon, Substack, or your own membership. Free tier sees the public answers.

03

RSS-aware.

Plug in your RSS feed once. ReactLive pulls every new episode automatically and ingests the audio for back-catalogue search.

04

Moderation built in.

Auto-filter for spam and trolling. Your tone, your rules — encoded in your show's SOUL.md so the AI stays in character.

05

Sponsor-friendly.

Sponsored polls and announcements with attribution. Sponsors get measurable engagement without owning the surface.

06

Multi-language.

Submit in any of 16 languages, get answered in the show's. International listeners participate in the language they think in.

07

Clip studio.

Auto-cut answer clips with captions, your branding, and a pre-roll intro. Ready to share to X, Instagram, TikTok, wherever.

08

Audience analytics.

What's trending, what's stale, who's engaging, what's converting. The dashboard your sponsor deck needs.

Pricing

Per show. Not per subscriber.

We charge per show, not per audience size. Your audience grows; the bill doesn't. Beta pricing locked in for the first year.

Pre-launch · finalising tiers

Free tier, self-serve, enterprise when needed.

We're locking pricing in with our beta cohort. Waitlist members get final pricing first, plus founder support during onboarding.

FAQ

The questions creators ask first.

01Does this work for audio-only podcasts? +
Yes. ReactLive transcribes any audio source — your existing RSS feed, raw audio uploads, or live audio streams. The matched-answer clips are audio waveforms with captions; you don't need to be on video. If you do shoot video, we'll cut video clips too.
02Will it work for a solo show without guests? +
Yes — solo shows are arguably the best fit. The AMA hub gives your audience somewhere to go between episodes; the recommendation engine gives you a writing prompt for each one. The auto-matching is per-speaker, so it works the same whether it's you, you-and-a-guest, or you-and-three-co-hosts.
03Do I have to record live for the matching to work? +
No. Most podcasters record-then-publish, and ReactLive works that way too. You upload the recorded episode (or we pull it from your RSS feed automatically), it gets transcribed and matched against the queue, and the notifications go out when the episode publishes. Live recording is optional — if you do it, the matching happens in real time during the recording.
04How does it integrate with my existing podcast host? +
We pull from your RSS feed — that's the universal layer that every host (Buzzsprout, Transistor, Substack, RSS.com, Captivate, custom feeds) exposes. Plug in your feed URL once. Every new episode gets ingested automatically. We don't replace your hosting; we sit alongside it as the audience-engagement layer.
05Can I limit submissions to paying members? +
Yes. Member-only mode integrates with Patreon, Substack, Memberful, and your own membership system. Public visitors can see answered questions on the AMA page (which is good for SEO and discovery); only paying members can submit new ones, vote, or comment. You decide where the line is.
06What if the AI misidentifies my answer? +
You're always in the loop. The AI proposes matches with a confidence score; matches above your threshold get auto-shipped, below it queue for your review. You can edit the clip's start and end times, change the match, or reject it entirely. The AI learns from your decisions — by episode 5, the proposal accuracy is usually well above 90%.
07What happens to questions that don't get answered? +
They roll over to the next episode's queue, with their original upvote count plus any new votes accumulated in the meantime. Questions that go unanswered for several episodes drop out automatically — but the asker gets a soft note that you've seen it and it didn't fit this round. No question disappears silently.
08Can I white-label it? +
Network plans include a custom subdomain (ama.yourshow.com) and full theme control. Studio plans add the option to remove ReactLive branding entirely. The notifications, the clip player, the AMA page — all branded as your show.

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Make every episode close a hundred loops.

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