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Summarize YouTube with timestamps. No sign-up needed.
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Turn captioned YouTube videos into timestamped highlights and a full-video summary in Chrome's side panel. Choose Short or Detailed, your output language, and an OpenAI model. Bring your own API key or use prepaid USD credit. No CutThatCrap account or subscription required. AI usage is billed separately. Supports videos up to 2 hours.
PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: ai video clipping and summarization tools · 163 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -37% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome side-panel extension that pulls YouTube captions and calls the OpenAI API for summaries is a standard extension-plus-API build.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 440 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #206 of 441 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- AI Video Summarizer · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- YouTube Transcript & Summary Generator · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- YouTube to Text · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- summarizer.video · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- yt-assist · ph · 2026-10-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- TranscriptCut · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- TubeVerse.AI · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- TubeText · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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