Building a New Game Show + Podcast for Channel RVA: Vibe Coding Live with Will Melton

By Will Melton · March 14, 2026 · 1:13:49 read

Category: Business & Economy

Show: Live Vibe Coding With Will Melton

Nobody has built this before. We're building it today. AI Game Show Podcast is an episodic comedy show where four players compete to deliver the funniest AI-voiced response to a surprise prompt — in real time, in sequence, with an audience that votes and a winner who comes back for the finale. Play

Nobody has built this before. We're building it today.

AI Game Show Podcast is an episodic comedy show where four players compete to deliver the funniest AI-voiced response to a surprise prompt — in real time, in sequence, with an audience that votes and a winner who comes back for the finale. Players type their response, pick an AI voice, hit send, and the app speaks it out loud. No overtalk. No interruptions. Pure, unhinged comedy delivered by a machine — and the crowd decides who wins.

Today I'm building the entire platform live. The player interface. The real-time voice queue. The pull-back mechanic (yes, you can retract a queued response if the room shifts). The interactive voting system with a countdown window. The host dashboard. All of it. From scratch. In Lovable.

This is App (or something like that) in my 52 Apps in 52 Weeks challenge — and it might be the most fun one yet.

🎙️ WHAT IS AI GAME SHOW?

4 players per episode. 3 rounds. A new surprise prompt each round. Players choose from a curated bank of AI voices — the app speaks every response out loud in sequence. Viewers vote via thumbs-up on individual responses and pick a round winner. The voting window is time-limited — which means urgency, social sharing, and repeat visits built right into the format. Episode winners come back for a live season finale. It's part improv comedy, part game show, part live experiment in what happens when humans hand their punchlines to a machine. The chaos is the format.

🛠️ WHAT WE'RE BUILDING TODAY (LIVE):

Player interface with real-time voice selection

AI voice playback queue — responses play in sequence, no overtalk

Pull-back mechanic — retract a queued response before it plays

Interactive voting system with countdown window

Host dashboard for episode management

Full episode + season structure

Built entirely in Lovable. Voiced by ElevenLabs. No traditional coding. Just prompts, vision, and a format nobody has tried before.

🔴 This is part of the 52 Apps in 52 Weeks challenge — a public build journey where I ship one complete app every week, live, in real time. Every session is documented. Every build is real.

Follow the full journey and get access to every app, every session, and every lesson learned:

👉 studio.willmelton.com

⏰ LIVE every Saturday at 1 PM and Sunday at 10 AM EST + Mondays at

If you're building with AI tools, curious about vibe coding, or just want to watch something genuinely new get made in real time — this is the stream.

Cast: is an episodic comedy show where four players compete to deliver the funniest AI-voiced response to a surprise prompt — in real time, in sequence, with an audience that votes and a winner who comes back for the finale. Players type their response, pick an AI voice, hit send, the app speaks it out loud. No overtalk. No interruptions. Pure, unhinged comedy delivered by a machine — and the crowd decides who wins.

Update: Filming is underway and a few cast slots are still open. Apply at channelrva.com/ai-game-show.