Behind the Craft · Sunday, September 27, 2026
Penn shared a unique use case where Grockbot acts as a podcast tool, translating articles into audio formats for listening on the go. He also described a personal project where Grockbot automates the process of posting content to his website. By tagging an image and associated social handles, the bot generates images, removes backgrounds, and publishes to his site, replacing the need for a manual CMS.
“Grockbot is replacing my podcast tool right now. Because I listen to a lot of podcasts. But sometimes when I read an article, I want to listen to it when I'm driving or taking shower.”
“So I just simply send this link to my podcast bot. And it will translate it into a podcast that I can listen anytime.”
“Um, but I think the different perspective to think about it is now I'm using Grockbot as like the main interface to to post things instead of like having to build an admin or CMS system and manually uploading it in the backend.”