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Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by solardev »

haswell wrote: post #27
tdthree wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Any content that we monetize we are revenue sharing with the creator. We already have more than 5 partnerships with creators.

Do creators have the option to opt out? I’m still coming up to speed on the full scope of what your product does, but I’m curious what you’d say to someone like pal2tec, who has some fairly strong and what I feel to be reasonable views about the impact of content summarization [0]. Getting direct buy-in and sharing revenue is great. But it’s not clear to me that this is the only thing that creators care about, i.e. a…

Not to be ironic, but... is there a summary of that video? It's a bit long and he doesn't seem to get to the point for quite a while.

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by tdthree »

breakpointalpha wrote: post #25

Poker, specifically Texas No Limit Hold'em, is widely taught on Youtube. Here are some of the very best in the category, it would be really cool if you partnered with any of these. https://www.youtube.com/@hungryhorsepoker https://www.youtube.com/@CarrotCornerPoker https://www.youtube.com/@PokerCoaching

Poker is interesting. I think these videos do work in our current course generation process. However, I do think some subjects like poker need custom tooling around the course to really make the learning experience great. For example, access to solvers or actually playing a hand on a table is a part of the course experience as well. Chess is another one that falls in this special bucket imo. Some of this tooling is on the roadmap!

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by jmathai »

I think this is a great idea. I’ve learned so much on YouTube but it’s always been in small chunks and very task oriented. I imagine there’s a lot of content Which covers broad topics that I don’t come across.

Something I’ve been doing more and more lately is asking chatgpt to create a detailed description of a topic which can be read aloud for whatever duration I plan on driving. This works exceptionally well - even for short 5 minute drives.

I wonder if the same can be done for video-based content. Sometimes I’m short on time but still want to learn something.

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by haswell »

solardev wrote: post #31
haswell wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do creators have the option to opt out? I’m still coming up to speed on the full scope of what your product does, but I’m curious what you’d say to someone like pal2tec, who has some fairly strong and what I feel to be reasonable views about the impact of content summarization [0]. Getting direct buy-in and sharing revenue is great. But it’s not clear to me that this is the only thing that creators care about, i.e. a…

Not to be ironic, but... is there a summary of that video? It's a bit long and he doesn't seem to get to the point for quite a while.

It’s an 8 minute video…and even shorter at 1.5X that will take me longer to summarize than you to watch.

But in summary, YouTube is rolling out AI summarization features on some content without giving creators any say in the matter.

Concerns include:

- Low quality summarization of high quality content will devalue the content, and in many cases is just a worse version of the content

- Impact to watch time on the channel can impact channel success over time

- YouTube is not doing anything to compensate creators for reducing watch time such as sharing revenue from viewers who primarily interact with the AI summary

But I think he articulates this much better than I did. Much better to watch the video.

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by tdthree »

notpushkin wrote: post #28
joshdavham wrote: post #23

How worried are you about platform risk?

I don’t think they’re attached to YouTube too rigidly. (Well, I hope at least.) In theory this should work with any platform that provides subtitles. But I think if YouTube falls, or blocks their API access, they would just start hosting the videos themselves.

Yea YouTube is only one format we support. Users can also upload pdfs, mp4, docx, pptx, etc. And we already do support video hosting ourselves. It wouldn't be great if YouTube decided to part ways with us, but we'd be just fine.

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by bestwillcui »

haswell wrote: post #27
tdthree wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Any content that we monetize we are revenue sharing with the creator. We already have more than 5 partnerships with creators.

Do creators have the option to opt out? I’m still coming up to speed on the full scope of what your product does, but I’m curious what you’d say to someone like pal2tec, who has some fairly strong and what I feel to be reasonable views about the impact of content summarization [0]. Getting direct buy-in and sharing revenue is great. But it’s not clear to me that this is the only thing that creators care about, i.e. a…

Yep, if anyone didn't want their videos to be on our site, we would take it down.

Just watched the video, I don't initially agree with his take completely but do totally respect the viewpoint and think a payment split to the creator whenever someone summarizes the video makes sense.

Yes we do offer the option to summarize content without creator buy-in, although it seems a bit different since we're also augmenting the content with questions etc. which should drive users to watch the video even more as opposed to skip it and just read the summary.

But you're right it's not perfect. If we ever have creators who don't want their stuff on our site we'd totally respect their wishes, but that hasn't been the case right now so this seems like the best thing to do.

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