Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base
Details
- External ID
- 46814744
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.66600790513834
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video transcription and extraction tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- youtube transcriber with knowledge base
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The application fetches YouTube subtitles or audio via yt-dlp, transcribes with Whisper, and stores the chunks into a vector database (RAG) to provide a searchable knowledge base.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ElevenLabs, Clawdbot, Moltbot
Concerns raised: requires paid third-party transcription subscription, lacks open source license
Feature requests: support for open source transcription providers, Instagram Reels support
Competitors
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Attention rank: #166 of 491 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 91 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.