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

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Post by nickjj »

meiraleal wrote: post #60
nickjj wrote: post #47

Hi, Is there a way to request items that were submit get removed? Can you provide a way to contact you such as an email address? There wasn't one posted on your site. It's just a suggestion, I mean right now anyone can submit anyone's videos without their consent or ownership verification. How do you plan to handle that? I'm sure there will be folks out there who wouldn't feel comfortable that a site will be scraping…

Well, this place is called hackernews, after all. Information should be free so if Youtube makes it public, public it should be.

Public doesn't mean it's available for someone else to use however they see fit.

That's why we have licenses and YouTube's default license ensures creators retain ownership of what they upload and are protected by copyright. The license allows YouTube to broadcast the content.

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

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Post by getwiththeprog »

gmerc wrote: post #65

It’s tricky when you don’t do editorial on your homepage tho: https://stepify.tech/video/623AC6a6org is the first featured video… In any case, it’s doomed- google will cut off the access or integrate the feature on their side. They thank you for the proof of concept though.

It is less tricky than watching a video on the subject. Very funny, but might not be a video you would want to watch at work (or home).

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

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Post by getwiththeprog »

aka_sh wrote: post #6
toddmorey wrote: post #2

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!

Don't sweat the small stuff.

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

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Post by geekraver »

This is cool. I have been doing this a bit more manually, by using a Chrome plugin that does YT summaries and shows transcriptions using Claude. I don’t like those summaries so I paste the transcriptions into ChatGPT (GPT4) with a prompt “Provide detailed study notes of the following video transcript”. That gives me a very similar format to yours. Will have to do some side-by-side comparisons.

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

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Post by shortformblog »

If you continue to this road, you should plan to fund the creators that this is siphoning from, or allow them some form of consent to agree to this.

What you are doing is, whether you’ve considered this or not, at risk of harming people who are building around video because it is financially viable. People produce these guides as videos because that’s how they can make money from them, whereas it is much more difficult to do so on a website.

You need to consider the implications of what you’ve built.

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

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Post by mbesto »

getwiththeprog wrote: post #69
sonnyw603 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checkout this app called Razzl. Pretty much does what you’ve described.

A web-page is way more convenient than an app.

Also, that requires the creator to build the whole step by step process. Being able to automatically generate the format would be HUGE.

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Post by rfl890 »

shortformblog wrote: post #77

If you continue to this road, you should plan to fund the creators that this is siphoning from, or allow them some form of consent to agree to this. What you are doing is, whether you’ve considered this or not, at risk of harming people who are building around video because it is financially viable. People produce these guides as videos because that’s how they can make money from them, whereas it is much more difficu…

Seems like we're adding colour to bits again.
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