Show HN: Add "gist" to any YouTube URL to get instant video summaries

Show HN: Add "gist" to any YouTube URL to get instant video summaries(youtubegist.com)

6 points by sh4jid 321 days ago | 6 comments

Hello HN!

Between academics and everything else on my plate, I still find myself watching way too many YouTube videos. So I built `youtubegist` - just add `gist` after `youtube` in any video URL to get an instant summary.

Before: https://youtube.com/watch?v=<...> After: https://youtubegist.com/watch?v=<...>

I know there are other YouTube summarization tools, but they're either cluttered, paywalled, or don't format summaries the way I need them. So I made my own that's free, open source, and dead simple.

One cool thing, if you install it as a PWA (on Android using Google Chrome), you can share YouTube URLs into it from the YouTube app, and it should summarize the video for you!

Please leave your feedback if you tried it out! Thank you!

andunie 320 days ago |

Thank you, this is really good, just what I was looking for.

I was using a browser extension, but it stopped working.

sh4jid 320 days ago | |

Thank you for taking a look!

ekusiadadus 321 days ago |

Generated Summaries are low-quality...

sh4jid 321 days ago | |

May be the model I'm using currently is not cut out for the job! Thank you for pointing this out!

andunie 320 days ago | | |

You should probably allow people to plug in their own API keys and services? I don't know, otherwise you won't be able to keep this running for too long, I assume.