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Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base

Details

External ID
46814744
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Jan. 29, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
22
Upvotes percentile
0.66600790513834
Tags
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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

Other products that read as similar to this one — 490 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

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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