Show HN: Qling – iOS podcast player with episode highlights

Hi HN,

Podcast discovery feels like roulette — some episodes fire me up, others drain me.

I built Qling to rank shows by inspiration and merit, with previews to give bite sized highlight snippets.

How it works:

– The ingestion engine ingests ~20k new episodes/week

– Transcripts: Whisper-large-v3-turbo and Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct on an A6000 GPU farm

– Scoring: episode embeddings + speaker credibility + insight + inspiration

– Stack: Django + Postgres + Redis on Heroku; SwiftUI client

Try it:

- iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/app/qling-podcast-player/id6740029729

- Simple landing page: https://www.qling.app/

Looking for feedback on:

1. Do highlight snippets help you decide faster?

2. Are the “inspiring” picks accurate or cheesy?

3. Any UX issues?

I’ll be in the thread all day — ask me anything and I’ll ship fixes asap.

Thanks for checking it out!

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