Eightify
AI
video summarization
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
10 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for product reviews and answer-seeking videos
From 2 comments
I think it's perfect for videos where you need an answer. Product reviews to choose from are the most extreme case - what headphones should I buy? Many of the videos, though, we…
ax8080 on HNAmazing product. Something I will gladly be paying for! You mention that you have invested 500 hours into prompt engineering. Are there any specific resources you would suggest…
r0fl on HN
Good execution on a cool idea
From 2 comments
Amazing product. Something I will gladly be paying for! You mention that you have invested 500 hours into prompt engineering. Are there any specific resources you would suggest…
r0fl on HNAh ok then maybe I was too harsh. Your app is pretty cool. Great job!
nebula8804 on HN
Objections
Summaries miss segments and get names wrong
From 1 comment
This app shows how dangerous it is to trust ChatGPT for anything even somewhat important. I just threw in a simple example news video and while it did summarize the video…
nebula8804 on HN
Free tier limit on view counts is restrictive
From 1 comment
Target Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdl1GKIbaWo Video has less than 30K views Free plan is limited to videos less than 1 hour long and with more than 30k views This is…
WrtCdEvrydy on HN
Requires Google login with excess data access
From 1 comment
It would be nice if you didn't have to log in with your google account to use it, or at least that it didn't request excessive PII, such as name and profile picture. There is no…
_Algernon_ on HN
Requests
Safari and Edge support
From 1 comment
Cool project and great presentation, but do you have any plans for a Safari extension? Apple has supported Chrome extension porting for at least 1 year now, and a conversion tool…
odysseus on HN
Output URL to save to Pocket or Obsidian
From 1 comment
It would be really great if there was a URL generated with the results of the summary. Then I could save it to Pocket / Reader and it would pass through their integrations to…
mistercool on HN
Use chapters when splitting transcripts
From 1 comment
Can you state the price of the "packages" in the landing page? Also, does it always give me 8 bullet points from each video? It would make sense for videos that have chapters to…
_the_special_ on HN
Subscription pricing
From 1 comment
I'm ready to sign up for a subscription. Hurry up with that! :)
mistercool on HN
Questions
How the pipeline works and its cost
From 1 comment
Hey Alex, this is really cool. I've used ChatGPT quite a bit and Stable Diffusion in the past but still feel like I've only scratched the surface of what's possible. Great to see…
7ewis on HN
Handling token limits for long videos
From 2 comments
Hello Alex, I've built a similar app for my own usage, I don't plan to ship it online. How do you handle token limitation for summarizing lengthy videos?
jcq3 on HNPlaying last weekend I extracted the audio using yt-dlp, ran that through Whisper (found the quality of that better than YT subs/transcript). However, then I ran into the 2048…
togume on HN
Alternatives named
youtubetranscript.com
From 1 comment
Cool project and great presentation, but do you have any plans for a Safari extension? Apple has supported Chrome extension porting for at least 1 year now, and a conversion tool…
odysseus on HN
YouTube Summary with ChatGPT Chrome extension
From 1 comment
take a look at this chrome extension --> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-summary-with-chat/nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli
adv0r on HN