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jimsojimyesterday at 12:35 PM0 repliesview on HN

So I'm building this: https://summaryworld.life

It gives you clean text summaries of YouTube videos. There are obviously other tools that do this, but I wanted something that is aligned with actual principles of learning and retention, not just quick TLDRs.

Also added a feature called Related Videos. It extracts the key themes from a video and recommends the top 3 related videos, essentially creating a small “knowledge web” of sorts around the topic. Similar to youtube recommendations, but you don't watch you click and read.

You can do YouTube search directly inside the product. When you click a video, it generates a summary. So you’re still browsing YouTube, but click turns a video into something you can actually consume. Personally found it better way to consume youtube, quicker for me to get through the content I want to consume than have those 10+ Youtube tabs sitting in my browser forever.

There’s also a public library feature I added where you can make your summary public. It’s kind of fun to see what other people are learning.

Still early, but iterating on it, scratching my own itch.