Show HN: Turn any YouTube video into a summary, quiz, & flashcards

5 pointsposted 9 months ago
by rtills

11 Comments

nancy_le

9 months ago

How do you plan to handle the variability in video quality and content style on YouTube? For example, some educational channels might have a very structured approach, while others might be more conversational or rambling. How does your AI model adapt to these differences, and what kind of limitations have you encountered so far?

rtills

9 months ago

Good question - currently it is just hooked into the OpenAI API. I think it actually performs generally well for its purposes but to make it get more traction I would have to consider fine-tuning or prompt engineering further

The limitations are mostly that the questions and flashcards can veer into being generic - I've still found them useful in my own dogfooding though...

HardwareLust

9 months ago

Pretty impressive so far. How are you paying for the compute on this?

rtills

9 months ago

My own pocket at the moment. Very happy for folks to try and use it as a tool. If it becomes a problem - hopefully the community will contribute. What do you think?

HardwareLust

9 months ago

Hopefully you won't be overwhelmed too quickly. =)

codingdave

9 months ago

How does this give back to the people whose videos are being used?

rtills

9 months ago

Hi - could you explain more? If you look at the site - the videos are embedded on the page so should still generate the same revenue -> https://asterlab.io/