I Built a Tool to Turn YouTube into Structured Courses
Details
- External ID
- 46416623
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I Built a Tool to Turn YouTube into Structured Courses
- Website domain
- disclass.com
- Launched
- Dec. 29, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4933206106870229
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video editing and creation tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- convert youtube videos into structured courses
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project extracts transcripts from YouTube videos using their API and feeds them into an LLM prompt to organize them into structured course outlines and modules.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: YouTube, Traditional online course platforms
Concerns raised: Generation time (2-5 minutes) may be too slow, Limited course library (only 10+ courses at launch), Quality and accuracy of AI-generated summaries unclear, Dependency on YouTube content availability
Feature requests: Interactive quizzes or assessments, Offline download capability, Community discussion/notes sharing, Personalized learning paths based on skill level
Competitors
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Attention rank: #144 of 285 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 60 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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