
Sam Gutentag
I'm a voice AI advocate building demos and content for developers.
Senior Developer Advocate at Deepgram
Work
Previously
SBA Parking
A parking tracker for Santa Barbara Airport that polls the live feed every 5 minutes and keeps every reading instead of throwing it away, so a chart can answer "will short-term still have room in 20 minutes" instead of just "how full is it right now."
Hacker News Radio
A daily podcast generated from the Hacker News front page. Top stories and comment threads scripted into a two-host show, voiced with Deepgram Flux TTS, published as a real RSS feed with chapters and transcripts.
solarGain
How much of the AC bill is really the roof? Pulls Home Assistant sensor history into a self-contained thermal dashboard, then models ridge vents and R-38 insulation against the house’s own fitted response before spending a dollar.
BCycle Map
Real-time bike-share dashboard for Santa Barbara BCycle. Live station status, trip flow animations, and route exploration from public GBFS data.
SB Coffee Week Map
Interactive map for Santa Barbara Coffee Week 2026. Find participating shops, track visits, plan your route.
SB Burger Week Map
Interactive map for Santa Barbara Burger Week. Browse participating restaurants and their featured burgers.
SB Sandwich Week Map
Interactive map for Santa Barbara Sandwich Week 2026. 40+ restaurants, live "eyes" on recently-viewed pins, a mobile detail sheet that keeps the map visible, and privacy-respecting geo demand, all on a no-build static site.
Yelp Subtopics, Revisited
Took my own 8-year-old NLP side project and rebuilt it with modern tools. BERTopic, zero-shot classification, and an LLM insight layer instead of the old hand-rolled pipeline.
Gutentag, World!
100+ repos that each say "Gutentag, World!" in a different language. Python, Rust, COBOL, Befunge, a DNS TXT record, you name it.
🎙️ Generating a Podcast from the Hacker News Front Page
Aug 26, 2026A text-to-podcast pipeline for Hacker News: three stories every morning, a two-voice script, rendered through Deepgram Flux TTS. What broke, what I learned about the API, and how to build your own.
🍽️ Make it Forkable
Feb 14, 2026Making a One-Off Project Actually Forkable
🍔 Let Claude Cook
Feb 10, 2026I Finally Built Something Faster Than I Could Buy the Domain