Hey this is really cool, I literally had the same idea about a month ago but ultimately decided to not pursue it. Glad someone else did.
A few quick Qs -
1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available.
2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a tad generic and replicable, so I'm curious.
1.) We do no TTS of our own. We either use the original transcripts uploaded manually by the YouTuber or we use the auto-generated ones supplied by Google.
2.) No, I plan to keep it free as the operational costs are relatively minimal.
Thanks for your response. Yeah that's nice and simple. I wonder how much you'll burn keeping it up for free, are we talking like on the order of $20/mo? If you use models like 4o-mini it might even be less, that thing is insanely cheap and not terrible. Cheers
A few quick Qs -
1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available.
2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a tad generic and replicable, so I'm curious.