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VidBrief turns any YouTube URL into a TL;DR summary, clickable chapter outline, full transcript, and a chat that grounds every answer in a [mm:ss] timestamp — under 30 seconds. Every video is indexed into a personal knowledge base. Free tier, no card.
Hey Hunters 👋
I'm Chris, solo founder of VidBrief.
I built this because I had a YouTube problem: I'd open a 60-minute video hoping to learn something, watch 15 minutes of filler, and bail before they ever got to the point. Worse, when I did find the gold, I had no way to come back to it later.
VidBrief turns any YouTube URL into:
🎯 A TL;DR summary in 30 seconds
📑 A clickable chapter outline — click a timestamp, the player jumps
💬 A chat where every answer cites a [mm:ss] in the transcript (click to verify in 3 seconds)
🧠 A personal knowledge base across every video you've ever processed — ask "what did I hear about Fed policy across the 12 videos I watched this month" and get cited answers per source
The differentiator I'm most proud of: every chat answer is grounded in a transcript timestamp. Click any [mm:ss] citation and the embedded player jumps to that exact second. No more "did the AI hallucinate this" — verify in one click.
Built solo over 3 weeks. Stack: Next.js + Postgres/pgvector for vector search, DeepSeek for LLM (10x cheaper than GPT-4 for this task), Paraformer-v2 ASR (handles Chinese & English better than Whisper).
Free tier: 10 videos/month, no credit card. Plus from $8/mo yearly.
🎁 PH-exclusive: code PHLAUNCH50 for 50% off the first year on Plus or Pro (valid 7 days from launch).
Would love your roast. Specifically:
— Is citation-grounded chat actually useful or overkill?
— What integrations would make this stick in your workflow? Currently Notion, Discord, Obsidian, Markdown.
— Would you use this daily, weekly, or one-off?
I'll be in the comments all day. Drop your toughest YouTube URL and I'll process it live 🚀
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About VidBrief on Product Hunt
“Read a 1-hour YouTube video in 30 seconds with AI”
VidBrief was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #103 on the daily leaderboard. VidBrief turns any YouTube URL into a TL;DR summary, clickable chapter outline, full transcript, and a chat that grounds every answer in a [mm:ss] timestamp — under 30 seconds. Every video is indexed into a personal knowledge base. Free tier, no card.
VidBrief was featured in Productivity (653.3k followers), Artificial Intelligence (470.4k followers) and Video (1.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 240.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted VidBrief?
VidBrief was hunted by Andrew. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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