Script Snap
Extract code from videos
Details
- External ID
- 47097554
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Script Snap
- Website domain
- script-snap.com
- Launched
- Feb. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6314016172506739
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I'm lmw-lab, the builder behind Script Snap.The Backstory: I built this out of pure frustration. A while ago, I was trying to figure out a specific configuration for a project, and the only good resource I could find was a 25-minute YouTube video. I had to scrub through endless "smash the like button" intros and sponsor reads just to find a single 5-line JSON payload.I realized I didn't want an "AI summary" of the video; I just wanted the raw code hidden inside it.What's different: There are dozens of "YouTube to Text" summarizers out there. Script Snap is different because it is explicitly designed as a technical extraction engine.It doesn't give you bullet points about how the YouTuber feels. It scans the transcript and on-screen visuals to extract specifically:Code snippetsTerminal commandsAPI payloads (JSON/YAML)Security warnings (like flagging sketchy npm installs)It strips out the "vibe" and outputs raw, formatted Markdown that you can copy straight into your IDE.Full disclosure on the launch: Our payment processor (Stripe) flagged us on day one (banks seem to hate AI tools), so I've pivoted to a manual "Concierge Alpha" for onboarding. The extraction engine is fully operational, just doing things the hard way for now.I'd love to hear your thoughts or harsh feedback on the extraction quality!
Enrichment
- Theme
- video transcription and extraction tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- extract code from videos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The architecture is an orchestrated pipeline gluing together YouTube audio downloading (FFmpeg), speech-to-text (Deepgram), and an LLM prompt to output formatted Markdown assets.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GitHub secret scanner, Deepgram Nova-3 (transcription engine)
Concerns raised: Fake console output/UI misleads users about actual processing, Frontend WebSocket connection drops silently on long videos (10+ minutes), Hallucination when deduplicating scrolling code file sections, No real progress indicator during processing
Feature requests: Real progress bar showing current timestamp being analyzed, Stitch scrolling code files into single deduplicated file, Pipe real status events instead of hardcoded animation, Handle long technical videos (20+ minutes) without connection timeout
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 106 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I made a tool that steals any website's UI into .md context · hn · 2026-01-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Scriptforge · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Robust LLM extractor for websites in TypeScript · hn · 2026-03-26 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I built a tool that creates videos out of React code · hn · 2025-12-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- YoutubeTranscriptPro · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- YouTube Transcript Exporter · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller · hn · 2026-03-24 · 648 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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