I built a Free "Masterclass" from YouTube clips
Details
- External ID
- 45850459
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built a Free "Masterclass" from YouTube clips
- Website domain
- opencademy.com
- Launched
- Nov. 7, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
The idea: what if you could get a “Masterclass”-style experience, but free, using existing YouTube content?So I made OpenCademy — right now it only has two quick startup "courses" (101 & 102), built from curated YouTube clips, all embedded and organized into modules.It’s still early (no accounts, no backend), but it’s bingeable.Would love thoughts on whether this concept feels useful or just... redundant.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- masterclass creator from youtube clips
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a static/lightweight web application displaying curated YouTube video embeds with simple localStorage progress tracking.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: AI curation could be problematic for quality, Limited subject matter currently available
Feature requests: Add health/nutrition/sleep/diet courses, Add business courses, Add fun/creative courses like home cooking, Expand to more subjects beyond startup advice
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