podcast website builder
Describe your show and get a podcast site with the latest episode, a full archive and an about page for the hosts, published on a live address. Free to start.
Free to start. Building uses your Zeplik credits; hosting a published site is included.
The exact brief that built the example
Not an illustration of the kind of thing you could write. This is the sentence that was typed, and Second Draft is what came back. Pressing the button above starts you with it already in the box, to change however you like.
A podcast site for a show called Second Draft about the craft of rewriting: home with latest episode hero, episodes page with six episodes, about the hosts page.
Open Second Draft to see the finished site running, and remix it into your own project in one click.
What this kind of site has to get right
Podcasts are distributed everywhere and owned nowhere, which is the argument for a site. It is the one address you control, the one place the whole archive is browsable, and the only asset that survives a platform changing its mind.
The episode list is the part that has to scale. Six episodes generated as structured data become sixty without a layout decision, and adding this week's is a sentence rather than a copy-pasted block.
Show notes are the search surface. Every episode page is indexable text about a specific topic, which is how people who have never heard of the show find an episode about the thing they were actually searching for.
What it needs
- The latest episode playable without a hunt
- An archive that still works at sixty episodes
- Show notes as real text, because that is what gets found
- Links to every platform the show is on
- An about page that makes the hosts worth an hour
Frequently asked questions
- Can I add episodes automatically from my feed?
- Not out of the box. Adding an episode is a targeted edit, which is a sentence per week. If you want the feed pulled in automatically, that is a build request rather than a setting.
- Can people play episodes on the site?
- Yes. Ask for an embedded player from wherever you host the audio, and it is wired into the episode pages.
- Do I need show notes?
- They are the only part of a podcast a search engine can read. A paragraph per episode is the difference between an archive that is findable and one that is not.
Other kinds of site
Start from this brief
Change the name, the pages, the tone. Watch it build in a live preview, then publish it on a real address. The code is yours either way.