NovacraftPodcasting splits its users in two: people who listen and people who make. Most products pick a side. Podzyme is built for the handoff between them — a feed, player and clips experience for listeners on one side, and publishing, live broadcasting and community tools for creators on the other, in the same product.
Novacraft built the whole platform: the iOS and Android app, the web app with its creator Studio, the moderation console, the marketing site, and the backend that runs podcasts, episodes, clips, communities and live rooms. Guest browsing works everywhere, so the product sells itself before it asks for an account.
Audio is unforgiving infrastructure — playback has to survive app switches, live rooms have to hold a crowd, and a clip has to load before the viewer loses interest. The stack leans on a dedicated mobile track-player service, HLS for live video, Socket.io for room events and chat, and AWS Rekognition to keep uploaded artwork moderated at scale.
Mobile, web, admin, marketing and the API beneath them — designed together, shipped together.
Domain modules for podcasts, episodes, channels, clips, communities, live rooms, playlists, feeds and payments, with community gateways over Socket.io and Rekognition-backed image moderation on uploads.
Listening built on a native track-player service — background playback, queue and speed control — plus live rooms, clips, communities and Google/Twitter sign-in, shipped to both stores from one codebase with OTA updates.
Discover, listen, watch clips and join live rooms in the browser — then flip to Studio to publish episodes, go live and read audience analytics: subscribers, plays and listening time.
The control plane: users, channels, categories, moods, clips, transactions, promotions and sponsorship plans, with in-panel video preview and bulk podcast seeding.
A motion-driven, audio-native page telling the two-sided story — every waveform on it is drawn from real episode amplitude data, and app screens are live DOM recreations rather than screenshots.
Creators go live in audio or video from the browser or the app; listeners join rooms with chat, reactions and picture-in-picture. HLS carries the stream, Socket.io carries the room — presence, messages and moderation events land instantly.
Speed control from 0.75× to 2×, queueing, downloads and cross-device continuity — pause on the web, resume in the app. On mobile the player is a native track-player service, so playback survives navigation, backgrounding and the lock screen.
Episode moments become a vertical, swipeable feed — the shareable unit that pulls new listeners back to the full show. Clips are extracted server-side and stream instantly, with moderation on every frame of artwork that comes with them.
Direct-to-storage episode uploads with progress tracking, browser-based live broadcasting, community posts and polls, and an analytics dashboard that answers the only questions creators actually ask: who is listening, how much, and where they stopped.
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