Show HN: I built a tool to fight YouTube clickbait with AI summaries
1 project_stain 2 7/27/2025, 4:20:38 AM peekatube.com ↗
Hi HN,
I built this to solve my own problem: wasting time on clickbait YouTube videos that bury one minute of value in a 20-minute runtime.
My solution is Peekatube, a simple tool that gets you the key info first.
- The Core Feature: It pulls a video's transcript and generates an AI summary so you know if it's worth watching.
- It's Fast: With the help of a proxy and gemini-2.5-flash-lite, getting the full transcript and summary takes only 3-4 seconds on average.
This is a live beta. The ultimate goal is to build this into a Chrome extension that works right on the YouTube homepage.
I would love to hear your brutally honest feedback. What's the one thing you'd add or change?
I'll be here all day to answer questions. Thanks!
You've perfectly described the ultimate vision here. The goal for Peekatube is to become a Chrome extension that completely changes your YouTube Browse, just like you imagined.
And you've given me a fantastic idea for how to bridge that gap right now: creating a sandboxed demo on the landing page that simulates that exact integrated experience.
That way, people can instantly interact with it and see the value, no link-pasting required. It's the perfect showcase.
This is exactly the feedback I needed. Thank you!