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Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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Whoever did this is a prankster and hilarious: https://stepify.tech/video/co7KgV2edvI I hope that didn’t wreck your compute costs

This one really made me laugh. Good thing the website takes in only transcript to produce the response. This video had none, otherwise it would've been a problem hah.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

#34

Tried it on one of my latest videos. Interesting results. My video is not quite a tutorial video, so I can understand why the results are not perfect. But it has invented quite a lot of content... https://stepify.tech/video/1-Rm0mgg2RI Here's the video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Rm0mgg2RI

Thank you for trying this out!

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

#35
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Love how the AI turned “drop a comment below” into a project step: “Seek feedback from stakeholders or viewers by encouraging questions and comments for further engagement.” This is from a bathroom remodel video.

Sorry for that, I'm looking into it. The problem is for videos that have no transcript. Maybe it's because i'm feeding it the description of the video for now. I'll find some workaround for this. Thanks!

> The problem is for videos that have no transcript.

Whisper or other models can help with that too, but remember to preprocess to cut silence. The dataset tends to include ads in the captions, which results in hallucinated in from silence.

You could also add a transcript-evaluation step which checks whether this actually looks like a step-by-step video, but I'd consider skipping it for cost and efficiency. Trying to be helpful by evaluating whether the video is instructions or not is added complexity where bugs and strange behavior can creep in.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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This is a brilliant and useful application of LLM technology, I'm impressed. One question- On the backend, is it downloading each video CC (closed-caption) transcript and feeding that into a tuned prompt? What happens for videos where this is missing? Asking because I've noticed CC is occasionally unavailable for some YouTube videos. If you cared to have a fallback, a potentially interesting experiment / solution for…

Thank you! I'm getting the transcript through an API and feeding it to the GPT. For now, the fallback function for no captions is just to make something out of the description of the video. I really appreciate the suggestion, i'll experiment around using Whisper. Regarding open source or business. I don't really know about that yet. Maybe, i'll lean towards the business side to cover the costs and see where this goes. And sorry for the downtime! API credits ran out. It should be fixed by now

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

#37

For the "Paid" or "Pro" version, let me have a browser extension that replaces ALL OF YOUTUBE with your text based breakdowns. // I'm not really kidding! Because boy do I hate 15 minute videos with the one CLI command you need buried like a needle in a haystack. Seeing the nonsense distilled into a handful of straightforward steps is so refreshing. Awesome work!

You’d have to be lucky to get the correct and complete CLI command from the transcript though, unless this is also doing OCR, which I don’t think it is.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

#38

Great work. A few ideas 1) Speed : the site is often showing heroku errors. Seems like you are running the entire processing in the request-response cycle. If not already done, please try to use a queueing system to perform async processing - and then let the user know when their video is ready to view as steps (probably via email or browser notifications). This will stop your site from crashing frequently and you'll…

Noted! I'll will look into that. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

#40

For the "Paid" or "Pro" version, let me have a browser extension that replaces ALL OF YOUTUBE with your text based breakdowns. // I'm not really kidding! Because boy do I hate 15 minute videos with the one CLI command you need buried like a needle in a haystack. Seeing the nonsense distilled into a handful of straightforward steps is so refreshing. Awesome work!

Thank you! I'll try implementing something like that and get back to you.
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