I Built a 24/7 AI talk radio station with Claude Code

Hi all,

(Post written with AI help since my grammar is rough — happy to answer any questions myself in the comments.)

Wanted to showcase a weekend-turned-ongoing project: bestairadio.com , an AI talk radio station I built with Claude Code.

Backstory: I have a hard time falling asleep and wanted good, clean, funny talk radio to listen to — so I built my own station instead of waiting for one to exist.

How Claude Code helped: it wrote basically all of the code — I mostly steered. The infra and architecture decisions were mine, but Claude Code handled the implementation and was especially useful debugging the dynamic content/scheduling logic that decides what plays when and keeps the show flowing without dead air or repeats. It also helped debug issues across the stack as they came up.

How it's built:

- Runs on a Hetzner cloud-optimized box: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/cost-optimized

- Voices are Kokoro (some built-in, some custom-trained) — I minted the custom voices using kvoicewalk + Chatterbox on a cloud GPU

- The on-air AI host runs on Deepseek V4 Flash via OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai

- Backend is Python now, with a planned port to Rust (I'm a Rust-first believer)

Running costs are about $30–50/month. There are still some bugs and a lot more features planned. No monetization for now — a swag/gift shop is planned down the line, nothing live yet.

Happy to go deep on the infra and architecture if anyone wants to learn from it or poke holes in it — genuinely willing to discuss and help others build something similar.

Bonus: the station is dynamically covering the Montreal Apologies' (the Polos) season opener tomorrow, and even I don't know who's going to win — the system's fully dynamic. Go Polos.

Would love your feedback — especially if you hit bugs. Ask me anything.

#Update 1 https://github.com/42kyynfqjv-dot/deepseekradio I open sourced it enjoy all.