honest-thumbnails
Chrome extension that replaces YouTube's clickbait thumbnails with a real frame from the middle of the video.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 54 upvotes (top 62%) · 0 views
Niche: browser extensions · 235 launches, 23 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- chrome-extension
- thumbnails
- youtube
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Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome extension that swaps YouTube thumbnails for frames from the video middle is a small content-script project, since frame images are reachable through public thumbnail URLs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 646 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #262 of 647 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.
- Unclickbait · hn · 2026-11-04 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Thumbly · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- KlickFrame · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- YoutubeThumbnailGrab · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ClickMate · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- CommentGrab · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- GetYTThumbnail.net · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- web-shot · github · 2026-10-02 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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