Show HN: VideoGist – Useful YouTube video summaries (videogist.co)

Hilarious to see a Legion of Skanks video in the immediate history list.

But it was surprisingly useful. The screen grabs throughout the summary were especially nice.

I'd like it if I could jump to the specific timestamp a summary relates to on YouTube itself from the gen'ed text.

Thinking about it more though I'd almost rather this backfill breakpoints in podcasts I listen to and let me jump to them.

I also wouldn't worry about perf too much. I'd be ok with waiting on the order of minutes to get a quality improvement.

Final nit, the tone of the LLM being used sucks. Maybe try a different one or give the user options with open router?

The cooking one looks spot-on, is it using GPT4 and transcript or with Vision ?

Picked one from my recent history: https://www.videogist.co/videos/10-things-you-didn-t-know-ab...

The text summary is very, very good. Kudos!

(As a nitpick, it has 'Wesan' instead of 'Wunderschön', but David himself doesn't pronounce it very clearly, so can't really blame the speech recognition there.)

The frame grabs next to the text appear to be sampled at random times, and not for their content. In the video, David presents screenshots and photos and what not. It happens to work out for Chapter 4, 6 and 7. In 5 of the other chapters it shows just the talking head. If a human had picked them, I think they'd show the most relevant imagery for the particular part of the video, and not the talking head.

Very cool! Curious about the technical details of the LLM side. Can't imagine this is cheap to run.

Tiny suggestion: the timestamp in the generated text block could link to the corresponding timestamp in the video.

Has it been HN-ed? WheN I tried to summarised a video I got "We're sorry, but something went wrong. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."?

The summary text is descriptive and accurate (so far, need to test more). Thumbnails for each segment could be better--less repetitive, eyes open, etc. But overall as good or better than what I've seen from commercial video mam vendors over the last 20 years.

This is nice! One thing that bothers me is the web page's Title which is "VideoGist". I'd appreciate it if it could be named "VideoGist - <youtube video title>" or something like that.

There's plenty of websites like this one, but I really like this one. Saved in the bookmarks.

Good summary and great breakdown with timestamps, would be even better if they were clickable.

I got an error with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-kDNFMCD0

https://www.videogist.co/videos/panasonic-s-rapid-response-t...

Or maybe it's still pending? I don't really understand if I'm supposed to refresh the page or if it will update automatically when processing has finished, so I hit refresh and got this error instead of the loading page:

  We're sorry, but something went wrong.

  If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.

Very cool. I've been using a similar approach to summarize videos on my website https://ray.run/videos/112-playwright-installation-2022 Doesn't cost much and getting great feedback about it.

Kudos for the landing page, this is how AI products should be presented.

1) Direct access to the product

2) Multiple demo examples

I've seen so many launches here recently that have no demos, require sign up and basically gate all the usefulness of the product behind walls.

This is great. I asked it to summarize my showreel (which I understand is not the kind of video you want to summarize) and the results are both surprisingly accurate and hilarious. Well done :)

Very cool. We have something similar at https://videotap.com, although a bit more focused on repurposing your video content into other mediums (written blogs, twitter threads, etc.)

First I get an UNKNOWN ISSUER from Firefox as a security warning, if I bypass that I get.

Then my corp network reports

FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked Web Page Blocked

You have tried to access a web page that is in violation of your Internet usage policy. Category Newly Observed Domain URL https://www.videogist.co/

:/

Great work! I got a question though, what's the processing time for longer videos? Like lecture videos that usually are somewhere around 1h-2h? Can it handle longer vids reasonably fast?

Nice!

Feedback - linking to the timestamped sections was the first thing I tried to do on your examples.

Feedback: Browser Extension would be much more useful in practice. I usually end up at a video, and THEN want the summary.

Is the service hugged to death? I've tried it on a couple of videos, and it's stuck on "Loading content" ...

I love it. I never tried any summary website but it's phenomenal. What technology do you use?

I'm looking for a good video summarizer! Sometimes a really interesting video pops up in my feed that I don't have time to watch but I want to skim a text version of it.

The ones I've tried have had a lot of issues. I just tried VideoGist on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tajhx6oTXnY and it printed an overall summary and the summaries of three "chapters" that it seems to have created (of lengths 18 seconds, 53 seconds, and 1:36), and now it seems to be hanging. It's an over 18 minute video. I don't know how long that's supposed to take, but I think being able to do the process relatively quickly is key, plus giving good feedback about the process (like a progress bar), and not being buggy/glitchy.

I love this so much. I’ve got a backlog of videos to comb through and this might just be the solution. To me, immediate usefulness is a great informal indicator of a righteous hack. As a first text I threw a rather dense talk I gave to Legal Hackers DC chapter early last year at it and got a very solid set of summaries [1] broken down into chapters that I didn’t even realize existed but in retrospect totally agree with. And the most convenient part is that you support static links to the summaries so I can reshare it. One small question that hit me immediately is the copyright all rights reserved at the bottom of each summary. I’m not necessarily poking criticism of that but do wonder if it’s really what you want? Especially with the built in share feature it seems like at least some rights to reuse and such are expected. Anyway, overall this is stellar work, easy to use, and immediately helpful. Thank you!!

[1] here’s the summary I was describing: https://www.videogist.co/videos/generative-ai-for-law-1021

Nice, was able to get a summary for my recording https://www.videogist.co/videos/scaling-beyond-microservices...

How are you defining chapters though?

Can we "download" a slide deck from this -- with chapter summary in slide notes :)

Great work. Can you tell us about how you built it? Is it open source?

Every video I try I just get: Something went wrong