Does it work on YouTube videos that have transcripts disabled?
No, it won't work for those.
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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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 chan…
The videos are the intellectual property of the creator, and YouTube has the rights to distribute and make money off of it for hosting it for you to billions of users. What's the problem? The creator can take their content somewhere else or host it themselves on their website
Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
#53Does it work on YouTube videos that have transcripts disabled?
No, it won't work for those.
You probably know this, but gemini is great to generate transcripts. I did a quick browser extension for that: https://github.com/za01br/yt-subtitle-extension
Congrats on the launch!
Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
#54This is a fun concept, and I love the name! I’m curious why you didn’t use multiple choice for the exercises? I feel like those would be easier than typing out full answers and be closer to MOOC style homework. Maybe have a longer written question at the end of a section. The exercises work pretty well, I like the highlighting red wrong vs. green right. It does feel a bit like the MOOC-style discussions. The tutor do…
Thanks! We do have multiple choice questions now (agreed) but some of the older courses were generated when there were only short answer. Anything specific we could improve about talking to the tutor? Definitely will add some of those features and gamify better.
Maybe give the tutor some personality or persona (having it speak as the instructor). I’m probably off base with that suggestion, though.
Again, very cool idea. I'm going to try some of the nuclear courses later this week.
Best of luck!
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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 th…
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Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 chan…
Thanks, I appreciate that!
FWIW, unfortunately, I think the problem is a two-headed one, and maybe reversed for viewers vs creators. Creators want as many people to see their work as possible. But viewers have to sift through a graveyard of 95%+ junk videos to find the 5% worth watching. AI (or Google/TikTok/etc. in general) acting as gatekeeper in between isn't great, but not having any metrics/summaries/descriptions for videos would be even worse.
In this particular case, I get that this particular creator might've had a point to make, but the description and summary were so cheekily written (to make a point, I guess) that I had no idea what it was about.
The creators who I do follow typically make long-form educational videos with a lot of nuance; I wouldn't want to rely on even the best-written human summary for those. But there are many, many videos for which I'd prefer a 1-sentence summary over 3 minutes of intros and jokes, a 45-second sponsorship, and a gradual dramatic buildup before getting to the point.
Not sure what the long-term solution is.
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For official courses, we go over the generated course with the creator to vet the content. Generally they're pretty impressed but have a few things they'd like to change/add before publishing. For self-created courses, it's generally been quite accurate and we're playing around with some eval metrics to make it as good as possible, but it's definitely a concern.
Is the course creator being impressed the most important metric? Are there other more concrete metrics you are able to use to determine quality from the perspective of a student? I am curious if you are using any methodologies from the digital learning space like knowledge tracing to help ensure that learners are actually retaining knowledge and improving over time or knowledge mapping to understand the gaps that mig…
At this stage it seems like a good metric since it's the creator's content. We're adding a feature for question feedback from users, so they can like/dislike/report questions, but very open to other metrics if you have any ideas.
Yep—also in the process of adding learning paths for certain subjects, so you can go from an introductory course to more advanced topics and fill in gaps in understanding. Agreed: our mission is to help students actually learn in the best way possible, we have individual courses now to start out but the goal is to integrate the learning experience.
Very curious to chat about what you guys do, and if you have recs for any literature in the space that we should look at.
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#58Do you have any revenue sharing program with the content creators? Or are you just poaching them?
Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
#59Do you have any revenue sharing program with the content creators? Or are you just poaching them?
They probably haven't decided yet
Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
#60Really cool idea! Some improvements I'd recommend with the ultimate goal being "getting users to learn the subject at hand".
1) Section Lectures on the left side need to be cleaned up, instead of just a numbered list. Seeing 30+ lectures off rip is a bit daunting, especially with no labeling, sectioning, etc. I'd imagine feeding a model a list of all the lecture titles, then having it structured should work?
2) You're doing too much on the bottom section.
You need to incorporate all those tabs into the single Ai tutor, which can run whatever tools required (maybe notes/discussion can be a small additional indication). No one's going to be using the Flashcards section, and it's calling probably the same LLM as the AI tutor, so might as well combine them.
For the quiz, maybe when the video ends or the user wants to continue, the Ai Tutor goes into "quiz mode" forcing the user to attempt or pass the quiz (depending on the settings?).
Think of this like Cursor but for Education. Cursors powerful agent can handle/do so much, you're not using 3-4 different fields.
Oh and have it on the right side instead of transcript, so it's right there in users faces instead of having to scroll down.