Riverside Teams

What do you like best about the product?

I like being able to host, edit, and publish our podcast, and then get it out to a large audience. I also appreciate that we can host live on multiple social media platforms at the same time.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are a few tools I think would be especially helpful for editing that aren’t currently available. Because of that, I sometimes have to download my edited podcast just to add and post custom graphics. Riverside is a strong recording platform, but there are several areas where I think the experience could be substantially improved for serious, ongoing podcast production.

The UI/UX can sometimes feel more complicated than it needs to be. Recording, editing, producing clips, managing files, and organizing episodes do not always feel like parts of one seamless production workflow. I would like a clearer project-based interface where everything associated with an episode—recordings, scripts, edits, graphics, transcripts, clips, approvals, and exports—is organized together.

Integrations are another limitation. For a production team, Riverside should feel less like an isolated recording application and more like the center of a larger production ecosystem. Deeper integrations with cloud storage, podcast hosting, YouTube, social platforms, project-management systems, creative applications, and automation tools would reduce the amount of manual work required after recording.

In terms of performance, reliability is extremely important because recordings cannot simply be recreated when something goes wrong. Uploading, processing, synchronization, rendering, and exporting need to be consistently fast and dependable. When a platform is being used for a real production schedule, even relatively small delays or technical issues can disrupt the entire workflow.

The pricing/ROI could also be stronger. Subscription pricing is easier to justify when the platform replaces several other tools. If producers still need separate applications for advanced editing, graphics, social-media production, project management, publishing, and other post-production work, the overall cost of the workflow increases quickly. I would like Riverside to provide more production capability within the subscription rather than requiring an ecosystem of additional paid services.

For support and onboarding, I would like to see a more hands-on experience for professional users. Instead of simply teaching users where features are located, onboarding could help someone design their complete production workflow—from pre-production and recording through editing, approval, publishing, promotion, and archiving.

Finally, AI/intelligence is probably the area with the greatest opportunity. AI should go beyond transcription, summaries, captions, and identifying clips. I would like an intelligent production assistant that actually understands the show, its format, branding, speakers, previous episodes, publishing requirements, and production standards. It could identify editing issues, recommend cuts, prepare multiple platform-specific clips, maintain brand consistency, generate metadata, assist with show notes, organize assets, and help move an episode through the entire production pipeline.

Overall, my biggest frustration is that Riverside has many of the pieces of a modern production environment, but it does not yet feel like a complete production house operating system. I would like to be able to start with an episode concept and move all the way through recording, post-production, approval, publishing, promotion, and archiving without constantly leaving the platform.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am not sure

What do you like best about the product?

Riverside is helpful in that. It is easy to use. It really is one of those software that does not require a lot of of set up or guest work to understand. An upside to Riverside is the east of use. For those of us who are a little nervous, it’s nice to have this tool that you know is capable of going live or recording with comfort.

What do you dislike about the product?

I am not sure. Presently I record my videos and I utilize the feature that helps me to edit. I think that there might be things that I want, but I haven’t explored the software beyond the basic use to see if there is anything that isn’t useful for me, so I will just say that it serves the purpose of my needs at the present moment.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since I started using the software, I see where there is progress being made to make it more robust and more efficient,

What do you like best about the product?

People are very helpful. Tools are readily available, even when not quickly understood. Riverside is a great value for Heidi Duty Time.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is sometimes harder to learn than Streamyard.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Riverside helps me grow my Patreon presence.

What do you like best about the product?

Riverside is very easy to use, not only for producing my podcast but also for creating short clips, hooks, and short videos to promote it on social media platforms.

What do you dislike about the product?

So far, I haven’t found much to dislike about the Riverside platform. My only real complaint is that I wish you could add a producer at the Grow level.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Riverside lets me bring in guests from anywhere, and the video aspect is key to creating real, natural conversations.

What do you like best about the product?

I have been using many other programs to edit and create our podcast. Riverside makes it so much easier to edit and save me at least an hour for video. The re are so many helpful tools in this program. Riverside came highly recommended on ChatGPT. I’m glad I decided to try it out and switch from what I was using before!

What do you dislike about the product?

Thumbnails are amazing but always the same look. I’m sure it’s me and how I am prompting. Other than that, I love this tool so much!

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cuts pauses in one step, sound is easy to adjust, quality of picture is fantastic and scheduling people to join was so easy.