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Show HN: Turn any YouTube video into a summary, quiz, & flashcards

asterlab.io

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YouTube is the greatest learning resource in the world. Yet it doesn't provide any tools to help you learn from videos.

I built a simple app that turns YouTube videos into structured learning material using AI. It generates a summary, quiz and flashcards from video content, meaning you can learn from anything (well, at least any YouTube video).

Try it out. Would be happy to keep building features based on feedback!

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How do you plan to handle the variability in video quality and content style on YouTube? For example, some educational channels might have a very structured approach, while others might be more conversational or rambling. How does your AI model adapt to these differences, and what kind of limitations have you encountered so far?

Good question - currently it is just hooked into the OpenAI API. I think it actually performs generally well for its purposes but to make it get more traction I would have to consider fine-tuning or prompt engineering further

The limitations are mostly that the questions and flashcards can veer into being generic - I've still found them useful in my own dogfooding though...

Pretty impressive so far. How are you paying for the compute on this?

My own pocket at the moment. Very happy for folks to try and use it as a tool. If it becomes a problem - hopefully the community will contribute. What do you think?

Hopefully you won't be overwhelmed too quickly. =)

How does this give back to the people whose videos are being used?

Hi - could you explain more? If you look at the site - the videos are embedded on the page so should still generate the same revenue -> https://asterlab.io/

Can you support any media target yt-dlp supports?

Do you have an example? It is set-up just for yt at the moment - would need to dive deeper into API documentation to see what else we could cook

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites....

Should be able to use yt-dlp as an extractor to support any site it supports.

Will take a look!

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