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Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#1

Post by n0vella » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

Hi HN! I made this because I always forget what I'm trying to learn from YouTube.

Test yourself: Can you remember the main concepts from the last (educational) video you watched?

So, why not highlight and take notes on YouTube videos, just like in books? That's TubePen.

Sign in, replace "youtube" with "tubepen" in your YouTube URL, and you're ready to retain more from your videos.

I’d love your feedback! What do you think of my landing page? Use the 10-day free trial and see if it’s useful for you.

Thanks!

Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning
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Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#2

Post by maalber » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

Really neat idea actually! I love the landing page, both the interactive part and particularly the visual style. One thing that I would note though, is that scrolling down, I expected the images to be interactive since they blend in with the rest of the page and look like interactive elements. I would either try to make it more obvious that they are example images, or actually make them interactive

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#3

Post by n0vella » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 3:30 PM UTC

maalber wrote: post #2

Really neat idea actually! I love the landing page, both the interactive part and particularly the visual style. One thing that I would note though, is that scrolling down, I expected the images to be interactive since they blend in with the rest of the page and look like interactive elements. I would either try to make it more obvious that they are example images, or actually make them interactive

You are right. I think those images need some css to let the user know that are images.

Thank you very much for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#4

Post by pplonski86 » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 6:31 PM UTC

Congrats on launch. I see many people learning on YouTube, that might be useful tool. Probably you can easily integrate it with LLM and generate summary and quizzes based on videos

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#5

Post by Leftium » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 12:57 AM UTC

I tried signing up for the free trial subscription, and am starting to regret it.

I successfully entered my credit card details (4 times), yet it still says I don't have an active subscription. So besides not being able to try this app, there is also no way to cancel my automatic payments, which starts on Jan 18.

After fixing this onboarding problem, I suggest making it possible to try without giving any personal information. (I expected the video player on the landing page to be functional, but I guess just the note section is.)

Also there are many typos on the site. Like "loged in as"

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#6

Post by n0vella » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 9:32 AM UTC

Leftium wrote: post #5

I tried signing up for the free trial subscription, and am starting to regret it. I successfully entered my credit card details (4 times), yet it still says I don't have an active subscription. So besides not being able to try this app, there is also no way to cancel my automatic payments, which starts on Jan 18. After fixing this onboarding problem, I suggest making it possible to try without giving any personal inf…

Please write me an email to n0vella@outlook.com to see what happened. I'm going to check the logs, nothing must be charged to you.

Typos are also my fault as english isn't my mother language, Will check that also.

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#7

Post by n0vella » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 9:37 AM UTC

pplonski86 wrote: post #4

Congrats on launch. I see many people learning on YouTube, that might be useful tool. Probably you can easily integrate it with LLM and generate summary and quizzes based on videos

It could be an aditional feature in the future. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#8

Post by Leftium » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC

n0vella wrote: post #6

Leftium wrote: post #5

I tried signing up for the free trial subscription, and am starting to regret it. I successfully entered my credit card details (4 times), yet it still says I don't have an active subscription. So besides not being able to try this app, there is also no way to cancel my automatic payments, which starts on Jan 18. After fixing this onboarding problem, I suggest making it possible to try without giving any personal inf…

Please write me an email to n0vella@outlook.com to see what happened. I'm going to check the logs, nothing must be charged to you. Typos are also my fault as english isn't my mother language, Will check that also.

I forwarded the email I already sent to support@tubepen.com.

Another typo is "Acess to the entire platform"

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#9

Post by n0vella » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 10:10 AM UTC

Leftium wrote: post #8

n0vella wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please write me an email to n0vella@outlook.com to see what happened. I'm going to check the logs, nothing must be charged to you. Typos are also my fault as english isn't my mother language, Will check that also.

I forwarded the email I already sent to support@tubepen.com. Another typo is "Acess to the entire platform"

Seems like outlook stop receiving emails from cloudflare redirection:

upstream (outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com.) temporary error: Unknown error: transient error (451): 4.7.650 The mail server [104.30.10.49] has been temporarily rate limited due to IP reputation

I don't know how to deal with this so right now you can contact me on n0vella@outlook.com

Re: Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

#10

Post by Leftium » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 3:30 AM UTC

n0vella wrote: post #6

Leftium wrote: post #5

I tried signing up for the free trial subscription, and am starting to regret it. I successfully entered my credit card details (4 times), yet it still says I don't have an active subscription. So besides not being able to try this app, there is also no way to cancel my automatic payments, which starts on Jan 18. After fixing this onboarding problem, I suggest making it possible to try without giving any personal inf…

Please write me an email to n0vella@outlook.com to see what happened. I'm going to check the logs, nothing must be charged to you. Typos are also my fault as english isn't my mother language, Will check that also.

The OP sorted out the subscription/signup/billing issues.

The main reason I signed up was for a nice way to search through YouTube transcripts. YouTube requires many clicks, and the transcript is jammed into a small div.

Another reason I signed up was because I was curious how the YouTube videos were being embedded. It seems like just via the YouTube API?