Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners (focusstream.media)

A landing page or better a login-free demo mode would be great. Right now all I see is a sign up page, which does not convince me of anything.

The idea sounds interesting and attractive though.

It sounds interesting but what exactly does it do?

Good to see something like this, but you can solve some of the problems within youtube like autoplay, you can disable it. As for the recommendations on homepage you can clear youtube history and pause it in yours accounts activity center¹, for hiding video suggestions, personally I use theatre mode(so that i need to scroll) and extension to disable it. Similarly I hide the YouTube shorts using the extension.

Also, the landing page starts with a signup :)

1. The downside is that you also lose your YouTube Music history.

A few critiques.

1. Your base page doesn't describe what topics can or would be available. What are we trying to learn here? Languages? Science? How to be a better YouTuber? 2. You have a demo video. I haven't watched it. Why? Because I HATE having to watch videos if I could read a description instead. I read at least 10x faster than I can watch anything. That applies to learning as well, but some topics do work better in a visual medium. 3. You say its free but requiring me to sign up. To me that's not free. Maybe its not needing my money, but you're still needing my information. 4. Offer sign up/sign in with other identity providers.

TL;DR - Spend some time describing your product to someone who doesn't know need your product, not explaining it like I've tried other products and need shortcuts.

YouTube is a quasi-monopoly and one of the most important sources of educational content in our time. Kids use it, and teachers sometimes recommend it.

I am usually against regulation, but in this case I think having YouTube Shorts next to educational content is like a school kiosk selling crack cocaine next to hot dogs.

I refreshed the main page and recommended topics disappeared with message "Failed to load topics".

Logout button doesn't redirect anywhere and I cannot log back in - too many requests.

Also remember me button doesn't change state onClick.

I'm not signing in just to find out what your website does.

I tried signing up, it can't validate my email :) after I click on validation link, tried link and button...

You could be hosting the cure for cancer and I wouldn’t make yet another throwaway account just to see behind the curtain.

This is super. I tried signing up, and it worked,an app would be better. But when I was researching about PMF topics for B2C on Youtube, I always got distracted with other of my personal recommendations it keeps throwing. This allowed me review around 6 videos focused only b2c PMF. Absolutely apt for me in this case. Thanks for building this.

congrats on the launch

I recommend people to try out the Youtube Enhancer browser extension. I always get baffled when I used youtube on mobile, search is near useless now because of all the crap they throw in the middle of the search results. But beyond that the experience is just very bad.

A few features I like about it:

- Allows you to hide most engagement features like shorts, comments, related videos, etc

- Allows you to set a default playback speed and custom buttons to change playback speed with one click.

- Setting the default video size to "theater mode" (takes all the browser window above the fold, but without going full screen), so you don't see all that crap around the video you just clicked on

Doesn't load any content, and you can't even delete your account.

Would be great if there was a signup free demo of some sort. As soon as I see a signup page for something that I want to try I just give up.

I am going to assume the way you have implemented this is that your application has a search component that searches for known topics, loads the videos, extracts subs and stores them in vectorized format inside a database. when a user searches for something you simply lookup this vector data and link the YT video corresponding to it

This isn't a perfect solution, but you can bookmark your YouTube subscriptions page.

I think those of us who want youtube without the distractions should start a campaign to convince google to make https://www.youtube.com/learning better. I think even tweeting about it so that our efforts are reported by large news outlets would work. If there aren't enough users asking for this feature, we will be ignored. Someone needs to build a website that coordinates our efforts.

Alternatively the Unhook Firefox extension allows you to toggle distracting Youtube elements.

I don't see anything except a login page, so, no thanks!

Guys, there was an issue while playing the video, I've fixed it now. You can try it out.

Also, I am seeking to connect with 3-4 people and get their feedback on how can I solve this problem better. If you're interested, you can email me on: ashwin.parihar@outlook.com