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Show HN: I've built a tool that summarizes 3-hour YouTube videos

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Great but some basic 101 issues.

- Spelling errors.

- No free option to try, if you cant do this (cost) then put up an example video with summary so people know what they are buying.

Btw Kagi does this for free for now.

I wouldn't call it free, it's included in Kagi's 10usd/month package. Although you can also use their API for $0.030/1000 tokens.

I stand corrected. It used to be free to all but now wrapped under paid account which is fair enough.

> No free option to try

This. And get rid of the Google logins etc.

Thanks for the feedback!

Regarding free options, there's an example video right on the landing page. Adding more examples is not a problem: check out my newsletter at https://talkelite.substack.com/ - I launched it to showcase how voxweave makes summaries. Offering a free option is not feasible for a solopreneur.

As for Kargi it has significant limitations. you can compare

Are we confident that the Kagi thing doesn't just summarise the subtitles from youtube? This seems to actually write the subs.

Hey, I like my hours-long YouTube videos and would be remiss getting the Cliffs Notes. I wish Google would put those Shorts somewhere less in-your-face but sigh I know we live in a TikTok era.

I like long videos, too, but I could see this being useful to let it summarize a video beforehand so I can see if it's worth spending the time to watch it myself. Could also be good if you have a long video and you want the text transcription to use for reference later.

Maybe give out some ways for people to try it, at least if you're trying to promote it. With a single example, how can I be confident that it works as advertised? If you don't want to do entire free videos, consider allowing users trying a 5 minute snippet of a video of their choose so they can see what they can expect.

You could also just make some Hacker News coupons so people here could give a review/feedback if that's what you're looking for.

Please put some samples of Lex Fridman and Andrew Huberman, or perhaps some lectures.

You should put an example of the output right on the homepage

Isn't this what Google is actively developing?

Yes, you can try it as a Premium member. I didn't try it on any 3-hour long videos, but for a couple of shorter ones it worked well enough to give a tl;dr;.

Hmm, it's not showing up for me to try in my account...

Here is the site talking about the features though: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-youtube-premium-fea...

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